Kolar district
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Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Karnataka
- Division
- Bengaluru
- Headquarters
- Kolar
- District commissioner
- Mr Ravi MR , ( IAS )
- Total
- 4,012 km (1,549 sq mi)
- Density
- 384/km (990/sq mi)
- Official
- Kannada
- Time zone
- UTC+5:30 ( IST )
- Iso 3166 code
- IN-KA-KL
- Vehicle registration
- KA-07, KA-08
- Sex ratio
- 976 ♀ / 1000 ♂
- Literacy
- 74.33%
- Lok sabha constituency
- Kolar Lok Sabha constituency
- Precipitation
- 724 millimetres (28.5 in)
- Website
- kolar .nic .in
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Kingdom of Mysore
- Continent
- Asia
- Capital
- Kolar
- Official language
- Kannada
- Population
- 1536401
- Area
- 4012
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Bengaluru North district
- Official website
- kolar.nic.in
- Image
- Someshvara temple in Kolar (rear view).JPG
- Households
- 333348
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- category of associated people
- Category:People from Kolar district
- Commons category
- Kolar district
- topic's main category
- Category:Kolar district
- male population
- 776396
- female population
- 760005
- urban population
- 480073
- rural population
- 1056328
- literate population
- 1016219
- illiterate population
- 520182
- short name
- KLR
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
via Wikidata · CC0
~8 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Kolar district ( Kannada: [koːlaːrɐ] ) is a district in the state of Karnataka, India.
Kolar (ಕೋಲಾರ) is the district headquarters. Located in southern Karnataka, it is the state's easternmost district. The district is surrounded by the Bangalore Rural district on the west, Chikballapur district on the north, the Chittoor district and Annamayya district of Andhra Pradesh on the east and the Krishnagiri district of Tamil Nadu on the south. As per the 2001 Census, Kolar had a total population of 2,536,069, comprising 1,286,193 males and 1,249,876 females, with a sex ratio of 972 females per 1000 males.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kolar district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.