Kathua district
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Key facts
- Administering country
- India
- Union territory
- Jammu and Kashmir
- Division
- Jammu Division
- Parliamentary constituency
- Udhampur-Doda-Kathua Constituency
- District headquarter
- Kathua
- Tehsils
- Bani , Basholi , Billawar , Hiranagar , Kathua , Nagri, Marheen, Mahanpur, Lohai Malhar, Ramkote, Dinga Amb.
- District development council chairperson
- Mann Singh ( BJP )
- District collector
- Rakesh Minhas ( IAS )
- Total
- 2,502 km (966 sq mi)
- Urban
- 43.16 km (16.66 sq mi)
- Rural
- 2,458.84 km (949.36 sq mi)
- Density
- 246.4/km (638.1/sq mi)
- Literacy
- 73.09%
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30 ( IST )
- Vehicle registration
- JK-08
- Major highways
- NH 44(Pathankot-Jammu), Bhaderwah-Basoli Highway, Border Road(Kathua-Bishnah).
- Average annual precipitation
- 921cm ( Annual-Billawar) mm
- Website
- https://kathua.nic.in/
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
District Kathua, Government of Jammu & Kashmir | The Gateway to Jammu and Kashmir | India
The Gateway to Jammu and Kashmir
kathua.gov.in →Link to the official site · 16,086 chars · not written by Vinony
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Jammu division
- Capital
- Kathua
- Population
- 616435
- Area
- 2651
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Gurdaspur district
- Official website
- kathua.gov.in
- Image
- Ranjit Sagar Dam 1.jpg
- Households
- 119583
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- topic's main category
- Category:Kathua district
- Commons category
- Kathua district
- male population
- 326109
- female population
- 290326
- urban population
- 89713
- rural population
- 526722
- literate population
- 389204
- illiterate population
- 227231
- different from
- Kathua
- short name
- KTH
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Encyclopedic overview
Kathua district is an administrative district in the Jammu division of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region. It is surrounded by Jammu to the northwest, Doda and Udhampur districts to the north, the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh to the east and Punjab to the south. Pakistan's working boundary is to the west.
Kathua district is divided into 8 blocks: Bani, Barnoti, Basholi, Billawar, Najot, Duggan, Ghagwal, Hiranagar, Kathua and Lohai Malhar. It has approximately 512 villages.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kathua district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.