Kheda district
Sign in to savedistrict of Gujarat, India
Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Gujarat
- Headquarters
- Nadiad
- Tehsils
- 1. Kheda , 2. Nadiad , 3. Matar, Kheda , 4. Kapadvanj , 5. Mahemdabad , 6. Vaso , 7. Mahudha , 8. Kathalal , 9. Thasra , 10. Galteshwar
- Body
- Kheda District Seva Sadan
- Member of parliament
- Devusinh Jesingbhai Chauhan ( Bharatiya Janata Party )
- Collector
- Shri Amit Prakash Yadav (IAS)
- Total
- 3,667 km (1,416 sq mi)
- Density
- 627.2/km (1,624/sq mi)
- Demonym
- Charotar Region
- Official
- Gujarati
- Time zone
- UTC+5:30 ( IST )
- Vehicle registration
- GJ-07
- Website
- kheda .nic .in
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Bombay Presidency
- Capital
- Kheda
- Population
- 2299885
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Aravalli district
- Official website
- kheda.nic.in
- Households
- 466856
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- Commons category
- Kheda district
- topic's main category
- Category:Kheda district
- male population
- 1185727
- female population
- 1114158
- short name
- KHE
- urban population
- 523609
- rural population
- 1776276
- literate population
- 1660243
- illiterate population
- 639642
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Encyclopedic overview
Kheda district, known as Kaira district during British rule, is one of the thirty-three districts of Gujarat state in western India. It is part of the region known as Charotar, consisting of Kheda and Anand districts. Kheda was an administrative capital during British rule. Nadiad is now the administrative headquarters of the district.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kheda district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.