Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Odisha
- Established
- April 1, 1993 ; 33 years ago ( 1993-04-01 )
- Headquarters
- Khordha
- Collector district magistrate
- Shri Amrit Ruturaj, IAS
- Superintendent of police
- Ms. Sagarika Nath, IPS
- Total
- 2,813 km (1,086 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 568 m (1,864 ft)
- Density
- 961.3/km (2,490/sq mi)
- Official
- Odia , English
- Time zone
- UTC+5:30 ( IST )
- Pin
- 751 xxx, 752 xxx
- Telephone code
- 674, 6755, 6756
- Vehicle registration
- OD-02/OD-33, OD-33K
- Nearest city
- Bhubaneswar
- Sex ratio
- 1.108 ♂ / ♀
- Literacy
- 92.8%
- Climate
- Aw ( Köppen )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Capital
- Khordha
- Population
- 2251673
- Area
- 2887.5
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Puri district
- Headquarters
- Khordha
- Official website
- khordha.nic.in
- Households
- 494212
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- topic's main category
- Category:Khordha district
- Commons category
- Khordha district
- inception
- 1993-00-00
- male population
- 1167137
- female population
- 1084536
- urban population
- 1084316
- rural population
- 1167357
- literate population
- 1749936
- illiterate population
- 501737
- short name
- KHD
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Encyclopedic overview
Khordha district is an administrative district of the state of Odisha, India. It was formed on April 1, 1993, by the division of former Puri District into Puri, Khordha and Nayagarh districts. In the year 2000 the district name was changed to Khordha. The district headquarters is Khordha Town. The capital city of Bhubaneswar is located in this district. Khordha is the most urbanized of all the districts of Odisha.
Khordha Road, the railway station that serves the town, is also the divisional headquarters of the East Coast Railway of the Indian Railways, and contains its own division. Khordha is known for its brass utensils, cottage industries, railway coach manufacturing and cable manufacturing unit and consumer food manufacturing unit of various MNCs like Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Unilever, ITC etc.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Khordha district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.