Bilaspur district
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district of Chhattisgarh, India
Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Chhattisgarh
- Division
- Bilaspur
- Headquarters
- Bilaspur
- District collector
- Shri Sanjay Agarwal (IAS)
- Total
- 3,476 km (1,342 sq mi)
- Density
- 467.6/km (1,211/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30 ( IST )
- Website
- bilaspur .gov .in /en /
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Central Provinces
- Capital
- Bilaspur
- Population
- 2663629
- Area
- 8270
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Korba district
- Official website
- bilaspur.nic.in
- Households
- 600822
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- topic's main category
- Category:Bilaspur district, Chhattisgarh
- Commons category
- Bilaspur district, Chhattisgarh
- male population
- 1351574
- female population
- 1312055
- short name
- BLP
- urban population
- 679870
- rural population
- 1983759
- literate population
- 1596560
- illiterate population
- 1067069
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
via Wikidata · CC0
~8 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Bilaspur district is a district of the Chhattisgarh state of India. Bilaspur city is the headquarters of the district. As of 2011, it is the second most populous district of Chhattisgarh (out of 27), after Raipur.
Etymology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bilaspur district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.