Darbhanga district
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Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Bihar
- Region
- Mithila
- Division
- Darbhanga
- Headquarters
- Darbhanga
- Lok sabha constituencies
- Darbhanga
- Member of parliament lok sabha
- Gopal Jee Thakur , BJP
- District magistrate
- Shri Rajiv Raushan( IAS )
- Senior superintendent of police
- Shri Awakash Kumar( IPS )
- Vidhan sabha constituencies
- Kusheshwar Asthan , Gaura Bauram , Benipur , Alinagar , Darbhanga Rural , Darbhanga , Hayaghat , Bahadurpur , Keoti , Jale
- Total
- 2,279 km (880 sq mi)
- Density
- 1,728/km (4,475/sq mi)
- Urban
- 8.7 per cent
- Literacy
- 56.56 per cent
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30 ( IST )
- Major highways
- NH 27 , NH 527B
- Website
- darbhanga .bih .nic .in
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Welcome to Darbhanga District | Official Website of Darbhanga District | India
Official Website of Darbhanga District
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Darbhanga division
- Capital
- Darbhanga
- Population
- 3937385
- Area
- 2279
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Saharsa district
- Official website
- darbhanga.bih.nic.in
- Households
- 803012
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- topic's main category
- Category:Darbhanga district
- male population
- 2059949
- female population
- 1877436
- urban population
- 383328
- rural population
- 3554057
- literate population
- 1816634
- illiterate population
- 2120751
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- Commons category
- Darbhanga district
- short name
- DBG
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Encyclopedic overview
Darbhanga district is one of the thirty-eight districts of the eastern Indian state of Bihar. The city of Darbhanga is the administrative headquarters of this district and 5th largest city of Bihar as well. Darbhanga district lies in the Darbhanga division, within the historical Mithila region. The district is bounded on the north by Madhubani district, on the south by Samastipur district, on the east by Saharsa district and on the west by Sitamarhi and Muzaffarpur districts. The district covers an area of 2,279 km (880 sq mi). There are several locations related to the epic Ramayana. The Ahalya Sthan, Gautam Ashram and Gautam Kund are major destinations for the Ramayana circuit in the district.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Darbhanga district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.