Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Chhattisgarh
- Division
- Surguja
- Headquarters
- Baikunthpur
- Total
- 6,604 km (2,550 sq mi)
- Density
- 37.47/km (97.04/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30 ( IST )
- Pin
- 497xxx (Koriya)
- Website
- korea .gov .in
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Capital
- Baikunthpur
- Population
- 658917
- Area
- 6604
- Elevation
- 1027
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Sidhi district
- Official website
- korea.gov.in
- Households
- 153274
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- topic's main category
- Category:Koriya district
- Commons category
- Koriya district
- male population
- 334737
- female population
- 324180
- urban population
- 205299
- rural population
- 453618
- literate population
- 397823
- illiterate population
- 261094
- short name
- KOR
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
Koriya district, officially known as Korea district, is a district in the north-western part of the Chhattisgarh state in Central India.The administrative headquarters of the district is Baikunthpur.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Koriya district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.