Indore district
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Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Madhya Pradesh
- Division
- Indore
- Headquarters
- Indore
- Lok sabha constituencies
- Indore , Dhar
- Total
- 3,898 km (1,505 sq mi)
- Density
- 1,354/km (3,506/sq mi)
- Literacy
- 82.3%
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30 ( IST )
- Average annual precipitation
- 1062 mm
- Website
- imcindore .mp .gov .in , indore .nic .in
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Indore State
- Capital
- Indore
- Population
- 3276697
- Area
- 3989
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Ujjain district
- Official website
- indore.nic.in
- Image
- इन्दौरमण्डलम्.jpg
- Households
- 649540
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- topic's main category
- Category:Indore district
- Commons category
- Indore district
- male population
- 1699627
- female population
- 1577070
- urban population
- 2427709
- rural population
- 848988
- literate population
- 2309130
- illiterate population
- 967567
- short name
- IND
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Encyclopedic overview
Indore district ( Hindi pronunciation: [ɪn̪d̪ɔːɾ]) is a district of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. It is believed that the city is named after its Indreshwar Mahadev Temple, where Indra is the presiding deity as Indra+Oor. The Gupta inscriptions name Indore as "Indrapura". It is also called the administrative capital. This district forms part of the Indore Division.
As of 2011, it was the most populous of the 50 districts in Madhya Pradesh.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Indore district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.