Hailakandi district
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Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Assam
- Division
- Barak Valley
- District created
- 1 October 1989
- Headquarters
- Hailakandi
- Lok sabha constituencies
- Karimganj (shared with Karimganj district)
- Vidhan sabha constituencies
- Hailakandi , Katlicherra , Algapur
- Total
- 1,327 km (512 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 21 m (69 ft)
- Density
- 497/km (1,290/sq mi)
- Demonym s
- Hailakandian, Hailakandiya
- Time zone
- UTC+5:30 ( IST )
- Pin
- 78815X
- Telephone code
- 91 – (0) 3844
- Iso 3166 code
- IN-AS
- Vehicle registration
- AS-24
- Official language
- Bengali
- Associate official language
- Meitei (Manipuri)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Continent
- Asia
- Capital
- Hailakandi
- Population
- 659296
- Area
- 1327
- Elevation
- 21
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Cachar district
- Official website
- hailakandi.nic.in
- Households
- 143350
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- topic's main category
- Category:Hailakandi district
- inception
- 1989-00-00
- male population
- 337890
- short name
- HLK
- female population
- 321406
- urban population
- 48140
- rural population
- 611156
- literate population
- 407366
- illiterate population
- 251930
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Encyclopedic overview
Hailakandi district is one of the 35 districts of Assam state in northeastern India. It makes up the Barak Valley alongside Cachar and Karimganj. It was constituted as a civil subdivision on 1 June 1869. Subsequently, it was upgraded to a district in 1989, when it was split from Cachar district.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hailakandi district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.