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Chitradurga district
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Within Vinony's link graph, Chitradurga district is referenced by 446 other articles, and connects out to Hoysala Empire, Lingayatism and list of districts of Karnataka.
The entry is geolocated on the map.
It sits within the topics Chitradurga district and Districts of Karnataka.
Its subject is documented across 37 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Karnataka
- Division
- Bangalore Division
- Headquarters
- Chitradurga
- Talukas
- Challakere , Chitradurga , Hiriyur , Holalkere , Hosdurga , Molakalmuru
- Deputy commissioner
- Shri. Venkatesh T., ( IAS )
- Member of parliament
- Govind Karjol
- Superintendent of police
- Ranjith Kumar Bandaru, I.P.S.
- Total
- 8,440 km (3,260 sq mi)
- Elevation highest
- 1,094 m (3,589 ft)
- Density
- 197/km (509/sq mi)
- Official
- Kannada
- Time zone
- UTC+5:30 ( IST )
- Pin
- 577 501, 502, 577524
- Telephone code
- + 91 (8194)
- Iso 3166 code
- IN-KA-CT
- Vehicle registration
- Chitradurga KA-16
- Sex ratio
- 1.047 ♂ / ♀
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Population
- 1659456
- Area
- 8440
- Official website
- chitradurga.nic.in
- Households
- 357003
- Dialing code
- 8194
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- Commons category
- Chitradurga district
- male population
- 840843
- female population
- 818613
- urban population
- 329533
- rural population
- 1329923
- postal code
- 577501
- literate population
- 1087392
- illiterate population
- 572064
- short name
- CTR
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Encyclopedic overview
Chitradurga district is an administrative district of Karnataka state in south-western India. The city of Chitradurga is the district headquarters. Chitradurga city gets its name from 'Chitrakaldurga', meaning 'picturesque castle' in Kannada.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chitradurga district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.