Cuttack district
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Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Odisha
- Headquarters
- Cuttack
- Collector district magistrate
- Hardik Satapathy, IAS
- Superintendent of police
- Jugal Kishore Banoth, IPS
- Total
- 3,932 km (1,518 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 25 m (82 ft)
- Rank
- 2nd
- Density
- 666/km (1,720/sq mi)
- Official
- Odia
- Time zone
- UTC+5:30 ( IST )
- Pin
- 753 xxx
- Telephone code
- 0671
- Vehicle registration
- OD-05
- Sex ratio
- 940 ♀ /1000 ♂
- Literacy
- 85.05%
- Lok sabha constituency
- Cuttack
- Vidhan sabha constituency
- 09
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Wikidata facts
- Population
- 2624470
- Area
- 3932
- Official website
- cuttack.nic.in
- Image
- Chahata near mahanadi river.jpg
- Households
- 579170
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- Commons category
- Cuttack district
- short name
- CTT
- male population
- 1352760
- female population
- 1271710
- urban population
- 736047
- rural population
- 1888423
- literate population
- 2011469
- illiterate population
- 613001
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Cuttack district is one of the 30 districts of Odisha state in India. It is located in the coastal part of the state and its administrative headquarters are located in the city of Cuttack. As of 2011 Census, after Ganjam, it is the second most populous district of Odisha, with a population of 2,624,470. The name is an anglicized form of Kataka or Katak meaning Fort – referring to the Barabati Fort. The district is bisected by the river Mahanadi and its numerous distributaries and occupies a large portion of the river's delta. It is bounded by the Angul, Dhenkanal, Nayagarh and Khurda districts to the west while its southern and eastern boundaries touch Puri, Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapara and Jajpur districts.
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