Karur district
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Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Tamil Nadu
- Municipal corporation
- Karur
- Municipality
- Kulithalai , Pugalur , Pallapatti
- Town panchayats
- Aravakurichi , Krishnarayapuram , Marudur , Punjai Thottakurichi , P.J. Cholapuram , Nangavaram , Puliyur , Uppidamangalam
- Established
- 30 September 1995
- Founded by
- J. Jayalalithaa
- Headquarters
- Karur
- Taluks
- Karur Aravakurichi Manmangalam Krishnarayapuram Kulithalai Kadavur Pugalur
- Collector
- Thangavel, I.A.S
- Sp
- E. Sundaravathanam, I.P.S
- Total
- 2,856 km (1,103 sq mi)
- Density
- 373/km (970/sq mi)
- Official
- Tamil
- Time zone
- UTC+5:30 ( IST )
- Pin
- 639xxx, 621xxx, 638xxx.
- Telephone code
- +91(0)4324, +91(0)4323, +91(0)4320 for Karur, Kulithalai and Aravakkurichi Circles Respectively.
- Vehicle registration
- TN 47
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Tamil Nadu
- Continent
- Asia
- Capital
- Karur
- Population
- 1064493
- Area
- 2896
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Official website
- www.karur.tn.nic.in
- Image
- Dry-Amaravathi-at-Karur.JPG
- Households
- 287095
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- Commons category
- Karur district
- topic's main category
- Category:Karur district
- postal code
- 639000–639999
- male population
- 528184
- female population
- 536309
- urban population
- 434517
- rural population
- 629976
- literate population
- 727044
- illiterate population
- 337449
- short name
- KRR
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Encyclopedic overview
Karur district is one of the 38 districts (a district located centrally along the Kaveri and Amaravathi rivers) in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The main town in Karur District is the city of Karur, which is also the district headquarters. The district has a population of 1,064,493 with a sex-ratio of 1,015 females for every 1,000 males, according to 2011 census.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Karur district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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