Kannauj district
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district of Uttar Pradesh, India
Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Uttar Pradesh
- Division
- Kanpur
- Headquarters
- Kannauj
- Lok sabha constituencies
- Kannauj (Lok Sabha constituency)
- Vidhan sabha constituencies
- 1. Chhibramau , 2. Tirwa , 3. Kannauj
- Total
- 1,993 km (770 sq mi)
- Density
- 831.2/km (2,153/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30 ( IST )
- Website
- http://kannauj.nic.in/
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
District Kannauj, Government of Uttar Pradesh | Land of fragrances | India
Land of fragrances
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Kanpur division
- Capital
- Kannauj
- Population
- 1656616
- Area
- 1993
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Kanpur Nagar district
- Official website
- kannauj.nic.in
- Households
- 280928
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- topic's main category
- Category:Kannauj district
- Commons category
- Kannauj district
- male population
- 881776
- female population
- 774840
- urban population
- 280841
- rural population
- 1375775
- literate population
- 1017087
- illiterate population
- 639529
- short name
- KNJ
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Encyclopedic overview
Kannauj district is an administrative district of Uttar Pradesh state in northern India, along the river Ganges. The historic town of Kannauj, northwest of Kanpur, is the administrative center. The district was carved out of Farrukhabad district on 18 September 1997. The native dialect of this district is Kannauji.
Geography
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