Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Haryana
- Headquarters
- Jhajjar
- Tehsils
- Jhajjar, Bahadurgarh, Badli, Beri Matanhail
- Total
- 1,834 km (708 sq mi)
- Density
- 522.6/km (1,353/sq mi)
- Urban
- 22.17%
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30 ( IST )
- Vehicle registration
- HR 14
- Major highways
- NH9 and NH71
- Lok sabha constituencies
- Rohtak (shared with Rohtak and Rewari districts)
- Website
- jhajjar .nic .in
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Official website
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Rohtak division
- Capital
- Jhajjar
- Population
- 958405
- Area
- 1890
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Gurugram district
- Official website
- jhajjar.nic.in
- Households
- 185334
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- Category:Jhajjar district
- Commons category
- Jhajjar district
- short name
- JHJ
- male population
- 514667
- female population
- 443738
- urban population
- 243339
- rural population
- 715066
- literate population
- 676091
- illiterate population
- 282314
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Encyclopedic overview
Jhajjar district is one of the 22 districts of Haryana state in northern India. Carved out of Rohtak district on 15 July 1997 and with its headquarters in Jhajjar, it lies 29 kilometres (18 mi) from Delhi and had developed into an important industrial center. Other towns in the district are Bahadurgarh, Badli and Beri. Bahadurgarh is the major city of the district and state. Bahadurgarh is known as 'The City of Destiny'. Beri used to be a village fifty years ago.
The district occupies an area of 1,834 square kilometres (708 sq mi) and as of 2001 its population was 709,000. It has two industrial areas with over 3,300 industries. Basic industries are ceramics, glass, chemicals, engineering, electrical and electronics. Bahadurgarh is the major Industrial area of the district with over 2800 medium size industries and 200 large-scale industries. There are 3,300 units representing a total investment of Rs. 40,000 million. Major crops grown here are rice, wheat and maize. The total irrigated agricultural land area is about 670 square kilometres (260 sq mi).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jhajjar district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.