Kasaragod district
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Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Kerala
- Established
- 24 May 1984 ; 42 years ago ( 1984-05-24 )
- Founded by
- Government of Kerala
- Headquarters
- Collectorate, Kasaragod
- Subdivisions
- Revenue Divisions: 2 Kasaragod Hosdurg Taluks: 4 Kasaragod Hosdurg Manjeshwaram Vellarikundu Revenue villages: 128
- Type
- District administration
- District in charge minister
- K.M. Shaji
- Collector
- Arjun Pandian IAS
- District police chief
- BV Vijaya Bharath Reddy IPS
- Mp
- Rajmohan Unnithan ( INC )
- Mlas
- Kallatra Mahin (Kasaragod) Sandeep Varier (Trikaripur) K. Neelakandan (Udma) Govindan Pallikappil (Kanhangad) A. K. M. Ashraf (Manjeshwaram)
- Total
- 1,992 km (769 sq mi)
- Rank
- 13th
- Density
- 698/km (1,810/sq mi)
- Language 2011
- 82.7% Malayalam 8.8% Tulu 4.2% Kannada 4.3% Others
- Religion 2011
- 55.8% Hinduism 37.2% Islam 6.7% Christianity 0.3% Others
- Sex ratio 2011
- 1080 ♀ /1000 ♂
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Kingdom of Thiruvithamkoor
- Capital
- Kasaragod
- Population
- 1307375
- Area
- 1992
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Kodagu district
- Founded by
- Government of Kerala
- Official website
- kasargod.gov.in
- Image
- Kasaragod-map.svg
- Households
- 273410
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- Commons category
- Kasaragod district
- topic's main category
- Category:Kasaragod district
- postal code
- 671 xxx
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Kasaragod district
- inception
- 1984-05-24
- male population
- 628613
- female population
- 678762
- urban population
- 509047
- rural population
- 798328
- literate population
- 1037492
- illiterate population
- 269883
- short name
- KSR
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Encyclopedic overview
Kasaragod district ( Malayalam: [kaːsɐrɡoːɖɨ̆] (Tulu: Kāsrōḍ, Kannada: Kāsaragūḍu, Konkani: Kāsāragōḍa; English: Kassergode) is one of the 14 districts in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Its northern border Thalappady is located just 9 km south to Ullal, which is the southernmost portion of the major port city Mangalore, on the southwestern Malabar coast of India.
Kasaragod is the northernmost district of Kerala and is also known as Saptha Bhasha Sangama Bhoomi (The place where Seven languages meets)
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kasaragod district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.