Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Punjab
- Headquarters
- Faridkot
- Established
- 13th century
- Founded by
- Raja Mokalsi
- Named after
- Sheikh Fariduddin Ganjshakar
- Deputy commissioner
- Vineet Kumar, IAS
- Total
- 1,458 km (563 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 196 m (643 ft)
- Density
- 424/km (1,100/sq mi)
- Demonym s
- Faridkotian, Faridkotiya
- Official
- Punjabi
- Time zone
- UTC+5:30 ( IST )
- Telephone code
- +91-1639
- Sex ratio
- 1000/890 ♂ / ♀
- Literacy
- 69.60%
- Website
- www .faridkot .nic .in
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Punjab
- Capital
- Faridkot
- Population
- 617508
- Area
- 1458
- Elevation
- 196
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Bathinda District
- Official website
- faridkot.nic.in
- Households
- 120893
Show 11 more facts
- topic's main category
- Category:Faridkot district
- postal code
- 151203
- male population
- 326671
- female population
- 290837
- short name
- FRD
- urban population
- 217051
- rural population
- 400457
- literate population
- 381285
- illiterate population
- 236223
- native label
- Faridkot
- inception
- 1972-08-07
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Faridkot district is a district lying in the South-Western part of Punjab, India with Faridkot city as the district headquarters.
Etymology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Faridkot district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.