Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Odisha
- Headquarters
- Jajpur
- Member of lok sabha
- Rabindra Narayan Behera , ( BJP )
- Total
- 2,888 km (1,115 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 331 m (1,086 ft)
- Density
- 632.7/km (1,639/sq mi)
- Official
- Odia , English
- Time zone
- UTC+5:30 ( IST )
- Pin
- 755 xxx
- Vehicle registration
- OD-04 (for Chandikhol ), OD-34 (for Jajpur )
- Literacy
- 80.13%
- Lok sabha constituency
- Jajpur
- Vidhan sabha constituency
- 7 Barchana, Bari , Binjharpur, Dharmasala, Jajpur, Sukinda, Korai
- Climate
- Aw ( Köppen )
- Precipitation
- 1,014 millimetres (39.9 in)
- Avg summer temperature
- 38 °C (100 °F)
- Avg winter temperature
- 12 °C (54 °F)
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Encyclopedic overview
Jajpur district (listen) is a district of Odisha state in eastern India. The Odisha Government carried out a re-organisation of districts of Odisha in 1993. The erstwhile Cuttack district was split into multiple districts with Jajpur being one of them. The district came into being on 1 April 1993.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jajpur district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.