Kozhikode district
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district of Kerala, India
Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Kerala
- Headquarters
- Kozhikode
- Subdivisions
- Revenue Divisions: 2 Kozhikode Vatakara Taluks: 4 Kozhikkode Vatakara Koyilandy Thamarassery
- Collector
- Snehil Kumar Singh
- District panchayat president
- Sheeja Sasi CPI (M)
- Members of parliament
- M. K. Raghavan Shafi Parambil Priyanka Gandhi
- Total
- 2,344 km (905 sq mi)
- Rank
- 9th
- Highest elevation vavul mala
- 2,339 m (7,674 ft)
- Density
- 1,386/km (3,590/sq mi)
- Official
- Malayalam , English
- Time zone
- UTC+5:30 ( IST )
- Postal code
- 673---
- Iso 3166 code
- IN-KL
- Vehicle registration
- KL-11 Calicut City , KL-18 Vatakara , KL-56 Koyilandy , KL-57 Koduvally , KL-76 Nanmanda , KL-77 Perambra , KL-85 Ramanattukara ( Feroke )
- Hdi 2005
- 0.781 ( High )
- Official tree official flower official a
- Theyyakam Athirani Indian Pangolin Meniponman Malabar rose Eenthu Otter Pathala Poontharakan
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Encyclopedic overview
Kozhikode district ( pronounced [koːɻikːoːɖɨ̆] ), is one of the 14 districts in the Indian state of Kerala, along its southwestern Malabar Coast. The city of Kozhikode, also known as Calicut, is the district headquarters.
The Kozhikode Municipal Corporation has a corporation limit population of 609,224 and a metropolitan population of more than 2 million, making Kozhikode metropolitan area the second-largest in Kerala and the 19th largest in India. Kozhikode is classified as a Tier 2 city by the Government of India. NIT Calicut, NIEIT and IIM Kozhikode are institutions of national importance located in the district.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kozhikode district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.