Kangra district
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Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Himachal Pradesh
- Division part of
- Kangra
- Tehsils
- Kangra Nurpur Jawali Indora Dehra Shahpur Baroh Khundian Jaswan Rakkar Fatehpur (Vidhan Sabha constituency) Baijnath Jaisinghpur Dharamshala Palampur
- Headquarters
- Dharamshala
- Lok sabha constituency part of
- Kangra Nurpur Indora Fatehpur Jawali Jawalamukhi Jaisinghpur Sullah Nagrota Kangra Shahpur Dharamshala Palampur Baijnath , Hamirpur Dehra Jaswan-Pragpur
- Member of parliament lok sabha
- Rajeev Bhardwaj
- Deputy commissioner
- Nipun jindal, IAS
- Superintendent of police
- Vimukt Ranjan, IPS
- Total
- 5,739 km (2,216 sq mi)
- Highest elevation hanuman tibba
- 5,930 m (19,460 ft)
- Lowest elevation
- 500 m (1,600 ft)
- Density
- 263/km (680/sq mi)
- Official
- Hindi
- Regional
- Kangri
- Time zone
- UTC+5:30 ( IST )
- Vehicle registration
- HP - 68(RTO), 01/ 02D(Taxi)
- Largest city
- Dharamshala
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Encyclopedic overview
Kangra district is the most populous district of Himachal Pradesh, India. Dharamshala is the administrative headquarters of the district.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kangra district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.