Dindigul district
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Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Tamil Nadu
- Region
- Pandya Nadu , Kongu Nadu
- Municipal city corporation
- Dindigul City Municipal Corporation
- Municipalities
- Kodaikanal , Oddanchatram , Pazhani
- Established
- 1742 (284 years old)
- Founded by
- Kingdom of Mysore
- Named after
- Dindigul Fort
- Headquarters
- Dindigul
- Taluks
- Athoor , Dindigul East, Dindigul West, Gujiliamparai, Kodaikanal , Natham , Nilakkottai , Oddanchatram , Palani , Vedasandur
- District collector
- S.Saravanan, IAS
- Superintendent of police
- Dr.A.Pradeep, IPS
- Total
- 6,266.64 km (2,419.56 sq mi)
- Density
- 344.646/km (892.630/sq mi)
- Official
- Tamil
- Time zone
- UTC+5:30 ( IST )
- Pin
- 624xxx
- Telephone code
- 0451
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Tamil Nadu
- Capital
- Dindigul
- Population
- 2159775
- Area
- 6058
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Tiruppur district
- Official website
- dindigul.nic.in
- Image
- Poomparai village.jpg
- Households
- 560773
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- Commons category
- Dindigul district
- topic's main category
- Category:Dindigul district
- postal code
- 624000–624999
- male population
- 1080938
- female population
- 1078837
- urban population
- 808040
- rural population
- 1351735
- inception
- 1985-00-00
- literate population
- 1481834
- illiterate population
- 677941
- short name
- DIN
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Encyclopedic overview
Dindigul district is one of the 38 districts in the state of Tamil Nadu in India. Dindigul District is the largest district in Tamil Nadu by area. The District was founded on 1742 comprising 18 Palayams as Dindigul Seemai under the order of Mysore Kingdom. After that Madurai was made headquarters of the British army and Dindigul was attached to it as a taluk. Then the district was re-established from Madurai District in 1985. It has an area of 6266.64 km and comprises 3 revenue divisions, 10 taluks, and 14 panchayat unions.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dindigul district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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