Gajapati district
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Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Odisha
- Cd blocks and tahasils
- 07
- District formation
- October 2, 1992 ; 33 years ago ( 1992-10-02 )
- Founded by
- Government of Odisha
- Named after
- Maharaja Krushna Chandra Gajapati Narayan Deo
- Headquarter
- Paralakhemundi
- Type
- Administrative District
- Body
- Government of Odisha
- Collector district magistrate
- Shri Akshay Sunil Agrawal, IAS
- Superintendent of police i c
- Dr. Saravana Vivek M, IPS
- Total
- 3,850 km (1,490 sq mi)
- Rank
- 16th
- Elevation
- 1,501 m (4,925 ft)
- Density
- 170/km (440/sq mi)
- Demonym
- Gajapatia
- Official
- Odia , English
- Tribal
- Sora • Kui
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
ମୂଳପୃଷ୍ଠା | Gajapati
gajapati.odisha.gov.in →Link to the official site · 23,265 chars · not written by Vinony
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Named after
- Krushna Chandra Gajapati
- Country
- India
- Capital
- Paralakhemundi
- Population
- 577817
- Area
- 3850
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Rayagada district
- Headquarters
- Paralakhemundi
- Official website
- gajapati.odisha.gov.in
- Households
- 128523
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- Commons category
- Gajapati district
- topic's main category
- Category:Gajapati district
- inception
- 1992-00-00
- male population
- 282882
- female population
- 294935
- urban population
- 70666
- rural population
- 507151
- literate population
- 262537
- illiterate population
- 315280
- native label
- ଗଜପତି
- short name
- GJP
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Encyclopedic overview
Gajapati district is a district of Odisha State in India. It was carved out of Ganjam District on October 2, 1992. As of 2011 it was the third least populous district of Odisha (out of 30), after Debagarh and Boudh.
Gajapati district was named after Krushna Chandra Gajapati Narayan Deb, the King of the Paralakhemundi estate and the first Prime Minister of Odisha, who is remembered for his contribution to the formation of a separate state, and inclusion of his estate in Odisha. The district headquarters in Paralakhemundi, formerly a Zamindari, is clustered within a radius of approximately 5 kilometers around its geometric center.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gajapati district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.