Dausa district
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Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Rajasthan
- Division
- Jaipur
- Headquarters
- Dausa
- District collector magistrate
- Devendra Kumar, IAS
- Superintendent of police
- Ranjeeta Sharma, IPS
- Total
- 3,432 km (1,325 sq mi)
- Density
- 476.2/km (1,233/sq mi)
- Literacy
- 68.16%
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30 ( IST )
- Vehicle registration
- RJ-29
- Major highways
- National Highway 21 (NH-21) National Highway 148 (NH-148) Delhi–Mumbai Expressway (NE-4)
- Average annual precipitation
- 459.8 mm
- Website
- Dausa District
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Jaipur division
- Capital
- Dausa
- Population
- 1634409
- Area
- 3432
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Jaipur district
- Official website
- dausa.nic.in
- Households
- 292502
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- Commons category
- Dausa district
- topic's main category
- Category:Dausa district
- male population
- 857787
- female population
- 776622
- urban population
- 201793
- rural population
- 1432616
- literate population
- 938051
- illiterate population
- 696358
- short name
- DAS
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Encyclopedic overview
Dausa district is a district in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It is part of the Jaipur division–one of the ten administrative divisions of Rajasthan. The city of Dausa is the district headquarters. Other important cities are Bandikui, Lalsot, and Mahuwa. It is surrounded by Alwar district in the north, Bharatpur in the east, Gangapur in the south-east, Sawai Madhopur in the south, and Jaipur Rural in the west. It has an area of 3,432 km (1,325 sq mi) and a population of 1,634,409 (2011 census).
The district is named after the city of Dausa, derived from a Sanskrit word Dhau-Sa which means "Beautiful like Heaven".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dausa district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.