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Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Assam
- Division
- Barak Valley
- Headquarters
- Silchar
- Lok sabha constituencies
- Silchar
- Vidhan sabha constituencies
- Silchar , Sonai , Dholai , Udharbond , Lakhipur , Barkhola , Katigorah
- Total
- 3,786 km (1,462 sq mi)
- Density
- 458.7/km (1,188/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30 ( IST )
- Iso 3166 code
- IN-AS-CA
- Official language
- Bengali
- Associate official language
- Meitei (Manipuri)
- Website
- cachar .gov .in
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Official name
- কাছাড়
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Bengal Presidency
- Capital
- Silchar
- Population
- 1444921
- Area
- 3786
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Hailakandi district
- Official website
- cachar.gov.in
- Image
- Silchar barak.jpg
- Households
- 379955
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- Commons category
- Cachar district
- topic's main category
- Category:Cachar district
- male population
- 886284
- female population
- 850333
- urban population
- 315464
- rural population
- 1421153
- literate population
- 1174128
- illiterate population
- 562489
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- inception
- 1830-00-00
- short name
- CCH
- name
- ꠇꠣꠍꠣꠠ ꠎꠤꠟꠣ
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Encyclopedic overview
Cachar district is an administrative district in the state of Assam in India. After independence, the pre-existing undivided Cachar district was split into four districts: Dima Hasao (formerly North Cachar Hills), Hailakandi, Karimganj, and the current Cachar district. Silchar is Cachar district's center of government.
Etymology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cachar district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.