Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Chhattisgarh
- Division
- Surguja
- Headquarters
- Jashpur Nagar
- District collector and magistrate
- Ritesh Kumar Agrawal
- Vidhan sabha constituencies
- 3 Kunkuri Jashpur Pathalgaon
- Total
- 5,838 km (2,254 sq mi)
- Density
- 145.9/km (377.8/sq mi)
- Literacy
- 82%
- Sex ratio
- 1000:1004
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30 ( IST )
- Pin
- 496xxx (Jashpur)
- Major highways
- 1(NH-43)
- Average annual precipitation
- 1400 mm
- Website
- jashpur .nic .in
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Capital
- Jashpur Nagar
- Population
- 851669
- Area
- 5838
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Sundargarh district
- Official website
- jashpur.nic.in
- Households
- 192570
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- topic's main category
- Category:Jashpur district
- male population
- 424747
- female population
- 426922
- urban population
- 75992
- rural population
- 775677
- literate population
- 495415
- illiterate population
- 356254
- short name
- JSH
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
Jashpur district is a district of the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh bordering Jharkhand and Odisha. Jashpur Nagar is the administrative headquarters of the district. The district was formerly a princely state before Independence. Highly mountainous and forested, Jashpur is known for its natural environment.
Shri Ritesh Agrawal is the District Collector and Magistrate of Jashpur. He has previously served as DM Bijapur, CEO Zila Panchayat Bilaspur, Bastar, Dhamtari & Gariyaband.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jashpur district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.