Jorhat district
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Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Assam
- Division
- Upper Assam
- Headquarters
- Jorhat
- Tehsils
- 1. Jorhat East 2. Jorhat West 3. Titabor 4. Teok 5. Mariani
- Lok sabha constituency
- Jorhat
- Vidhan sabha constituencies
- Jorhat , Titabar , Mariani , Teok
- Total
- 2,852 km (1,101 sq mi)
- Density
- 324.3/km (840.0/sq mi)
- Literacy
- 83.42 %
- Sex ratio
- 956 females per 1000 males
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30 ( IST )
- Vehicle registration
- AS-03
- Major highways
- NH-37
- Website
- jorhat .assam .gov .in
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Upper Assam division
- Capital
- Jorhat
- Population
- 1092256
- Area
- 2852
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Lakhimpur district
- Official website
- jorhat.gov.in
- Image
- Jorhat Baruah Chariali.jpg
- Households
- 236262
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- Category:Jorhat district
- Commons category
- Jorhat district
- male population
- 556805
- female population
- 535451
- urban population
- 220534
- rural population
- 871722
- literate population
- 794929
- illiterate population
- 297327
- inception
- 1983-00-00
- short name
- JRH
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Encyclopedic overview
Jorhat district (pron: ˈʤɔ:(r)ˌhɑ:t) is an administrative district of the Indian state of Assam situated in the central part of the Brahmaputra Valley. The district is bounded by Majuli on north, Nagaland state on the south, Sivasagar on the east and Golaghat on the west. On the north of the district, the river Brahmaputra forms the largest riverine island of the world. The administrative seat is at Jorhat city.
Jorhat was previously a sub-division of undivided Sibsagar district. In 1983, Jorhat was carved out of Sibsagar District and was made a separate district.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jorhat district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.