Kaushambi district
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Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Uttar Pradesh
- Division
- Prayagraj
- Headquarters
- Manjhanpur
- Lok sabha constituencies
- Kaushambi (Lok Sabha constituency)
- Vidhan sabha constituencies
- 1. Chail 2. Manjhanpur 3. Sirathu
- Total
- 1,903.17 km (734.82 sq mi)
- Density
- 840.490/km (2,176.86/sq mi)
- Urban
- 124,456
- Literacy
- 63.69 %
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30 ( IST )
- Website
- kaushambi .nic .in
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Prayagraj division
- Capital
- Manjhanpur
- Population
- 1599596
- Area
- 1837
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Fatehpur district
- Official website
- kaushambhi.nic.in
- Households
- 277851
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- short name
- KSB
- topic's main category
- Category:Kaushambi district
- Commons category
- Kaushambi district
- male population
- 838485
- female population
- 761111
- urban population
- 124456
- rural population
- 1475140
- literate population
- 813424
- illiterate population
- 786172
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Encyclopedic overview
Kaushambi district is a district in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India. Manjhanpur is the district headquarters. The district was carved out of Prayagraj district on 4 April 1997. Manauri Bajar connects Prayagraj and Kaushambi districts by railway over a bridge on SH-95. Manjhanpur is south-west of Prayagraj on the north bank of the Yamuna river, about 55 kilometres (34 mi) from the city. It is surrounded by Chitrakoot district on the south, Pratapgarh district on the north, Prayagraj district on the east and Fatehpur district on the west. Kaushambi is part of Prayagraj division. The nearest railway station, in Bharwari, connects with Delhi, Prayagraj, Kolkata, Gaya and Kanpur. Kaushambi district have two river like yamuna ganga.
Mythology and history
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kaushambi district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.