Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Rajasthan
- Division
- Bharatpur
- Total
- 3,084 km (1,191 sq mi)
- Density
- 391.2/km (1,013/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30 ( IST )
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Dholpur district is a district of eastern Rajasthan state in Northern India. The town of Dholpur is the district headquarters. Dholpur District is a part of Bharatpur Divisional Commissionerate. It was carved out from the erstwhile Bharatpur District on 15 April 1982.
Dholpur District has an area of 3084 km. The Chambal River forms the southern boundary of the district, across which lies the state of Madhya Pradesh. The district is bounded by the state of Uttar Pradesh on the east and northeast, by Bharatpur District of Rajasthan on the northwest, and Karauli District of Rajasthan on the west. All along the bank of the Chambal River the district is deeply intersected by ravines; low ranges of hills in the western portion of the district supply quarries of fine-grained and easily worked red sandstone.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dholpur district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.