Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Karnataka
- Formed
- 15 August 1997
- Headquarters
- Davanagere
- Talukas
- Davanagere , Harihar , Jagalur , Honnali , Channagiri , Nyamati
- Deputy commissioner
- Dr. Venkatesh M.V, ( IAS )
- Superintendent of police
- Uma Prashanth I.P.S
- District incharge minister
- S. S. Mallikarjun
- Total
- 4,460 km (1,720 sq mi)
- Density
- 368/km (954/sq mi)
- Official
- Kannada
- Time zone
- UTC+5:30 ( IST )
- Pin
- 577001-006
- Telephone code
- + 91 (08192
- Vehicle registration
- KA-17
- Website
- davanagere .nic .in
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Davanagere district is an administrative district of Karnataka state in India. It is the centre of Karnataka. The city of Davanagere is the district headquarters. It had a population of 1,643,494 of which 32.31% was urban as of 2011. This district was separated from Chitradurga district in 1997 by the then Chief minister of Karnataka J. H. Patel including Chennagiri and Honali Taluks Shimoga district.
The district lies in the central plains of the state with its unique features of having an influence of the north and the south of the state. The prominent towns in this district are Harihara, Jagalur, Honnali Channagiri and Nyamati, these also happen to be its six other taluks. It is bound by Shimoga district and Haveri district on the west, Chitradurga district on the east, Vijayanagara district on the north, and Chikmagalur district on the south.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Davanagere district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.