Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Bihar
- Division
- Bhagalpur
- Headquarters
- Bhagalpur
- Lok sabha constituencies
- Bhagalpur Banka (for Sultanganj and Shahkund Blocks)
- Vidhan sabha constituencies
- Bhagalpur Nathnagar Pirpainti Kahalgaon Sultanganj Bihpur Gopalpur
- Total
- 2,569 km (992 sq mi)
- Density
- 1,182/km (3,063/sq mi)
- Urban
- 602,532
- Literacy
- 63.14 per cent
- Sex ratio
- 880/1000
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30 ( IST )
- Major highways
- NH 33 , NH 31 , NH 80
- Average annual precipitation
- 1166 mm
- Website
- bhagalpur .nic .in
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Bhagalpur division
- Capital
- Bhagalpur
- Population
- 3037766
- Area
- 2569
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Godda district
- Official website
- bhagalpur.bih.nic.in
- Households
- 564711
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- topic's main category
- Category:Bhagalpur district
- Commons category
- Bhagalpur district
- male population
- 1615663
- female population
- 1422103
- urban population
- 602532
- rural population
- 2435234
- literate population
- 1573066
- illiterate population
- 1464700
- short name
- BGO
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Bhagalpur district (/ˈbɑːɡəlpʊər/) is one of the thirty-eight districts of the Indian state of Bihar, located in the southeastern region, with its administrative headquarters in the city of Bhagalpur. It is one of the oldest districts of Bihar. It is a part of Bhagalpur Division.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bhagalpur district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.