Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Kerala
- Headquarters
- Kannur
- Subdivisions
- Revenue Divisions: 2 Taliparamba Thalassery Taluks: 5 Kannur Payyanur Taliparamba Iritty Thalassery
- District collector
- Arun K Vijayan. IAS
- City police commissioner
- R Ilango, IPS
- Rural superintendent of police
- Navneet Sharma, IPS
- Total
- 2,966 km (1,145 sq mi)
- Rank
- 5th
- Density
- 882/km (2,280/sq mi)
- Demonym
- Kannurian
- Official
- Malayalam , English
- Time zone
- UTC+5:30 ( IST )
- Iso 3166 code
- IN-KL-KNR , IN-KL
- Vehicle registration
- KL-13 Kannur KL-58 Thalassery KL-59 Taliparamba KL-78 Iritty KL-86 Payyanur
- Hdi 2005
- 0.783 ( High )
- Sex ratio
- 1090 ♂ / ♀
- Literacy
- 95.10%
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Kerala
- Capital
- Kannur
- Population
- 2523003
- Area
- 2966
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Body of water
- Arabian Sea
- Shares border with
- Mahé district
- Official website
- www.kannur.nic.in
- Image
- Sunset pyyambalam1.JPG
- Households
- 554298
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- Commons category
- Kannur district
- topic's main category
- Category:Kannur district
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Kannur district
- male population
- 1181446
- female population
- 1341557
- urban population
- 1640986
- rural population
- 882017
- literate population
- 2138434
- illiterate population
- 384569
- replaces
- Malabar District
- short name
- KNU
- P12749
- Ägidius Zsifkovics
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Kannur district ( pronounced [kɐɳ.ɳuːr] ) is one of the 14 districts along the west coast in the state of Kerala, India. The city of Kannur is the district headquarters and gives the district its name. The old name, Cannanore, is the anglicized form of the Malayalam name "Kannur". Kannur district is bounded by Kasaragod District to the north, Kozhikode district to the south, Mahé district to the southwest and Wayanad District to the southeast. To the east, the district is bounded by the Western Ghats, which forms the border with the state of Karnataka (Kodagu district). The Arabian Sea lies to the west. Paithalmala is the highest point in Kannur District (1,372m). Enclosed within the southern part of the district is the Mahé district of the Union Territory of Puducherry. The district was established in 1957.
Kannur Municipal Corporation is the sixth-largest urban local body in the state and Kannur Cantonment is the only Cantonment Board in Kerala. Indian Naval Academy at Ezhimala is the Asia's largest, and the world's third-largest, naval academy. Muzhappilangad beach is the longest Drive-In Beach in Asia and is featured among the top 6 best beaches for driving in the world in BBC article for Autos. Kannur district is home to some forts which include St. Angelo Fort, and Tellicherry Fort. Thalassery town in the district is known for the Thalassery pepper.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kannur district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.