Dantewada district
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district of Chhattisgarh, India
Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Chhattisgarh
- Division
- Bastar
- Headquarters
- Dantewada
- District collector
- Shri Mayank Chaturvedi (IAS)
- Total
- 3,410.50 km (1,316.80 sq mi)
- Density
- 83.1195/km (215.278/sq mi)
- Literacy
- 42.12 per cent
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30 ( IST )
- Website
- dantewada .nic .in
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Encyclopedic overview
Dakshin Bastar Dantewada district, also known as Dantewara district, is a district in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh. Dantewada is the district headquarters. The district is part of Bastar Division. Until 1998, Dantewada District was a tehsil of the larger Bastar District.
As of 2011 it is the third least populous district of Chhattisgarh (out of 18), after Narayanpur and Bijapur.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dantewada district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.