Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Bihar
- Region
- Mithila
- Division
- Munger
- District
- 2 October 1972
- Headquarters
- Begusarai
- District magistrate
- Shrikant Shastri
- Mp begusarai lok sabha
- Giriraj Singh
- Total
- 1,918 km (741 sq mi)
- Density
- 1,549/km (4,011/sq mi)
- Literacy
- 63.87 per cent
- Official
- Hindi
- Additional official
- Urdu
- Other recognised
- Maithili
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30 ( IST )
- Vehicle registration
- BR-09
- Major highways
- NH 31 , NH 28
- Average annual precipitation
- 1384 mm
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Encyclopedic overview
Begusarai district is one of the thirty-eight districts of the Indian state of Bihar. The city of Begusarai is its administrative headquarters and is part of the Munger division.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Begusarai district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.