Krishnagiri district
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Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Tamil Nadu
- Established
- 9 February 2004
- Founded by
- J. Jayalalithaa
- Headquarters
- Krishnagiri
- Talukas
- Krishnagiri , Hosur , Denkanikottai , Shoolagiri , Pochampalli , Uthangarai , Bargur , Anchetty , Thally
- District collector
- K. M. Sarayu IAS
- Total
- 1,879,809
- Official
- Tamil
- Time zone
- UTC+5:30 ( IST )
- Telephone code
- 04343
- Iso 3166 code
- ISO 3166-2:IN
- Vehicle registration
- TN 24, TN 70
- Website
- krishnagiri .nic .in
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Krishnagiri District, Government of Tamil Nadu | Mango's Own District | India
Mango's Own District
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Tamil Nadu
- Capital
- Krishnagiri
- Population
- 1879809
- Area
- 5143
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Chittoor district
- Official website
- krishnagiri.nic.in
- Households
- 448053
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- Commons category
- Krishnagiri district
- topic's main category
- Category:Krishnagiri district
- postal code
- 635001
- inception
- 2004-02-09
- male population
- 960232
- female population
- 919577
- urban population
- 428363
- rural population
- 1451446
- literate population
- 1187958
- illiterate population
- 691851
- short name
- KHN
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Encyclopedic overview
Krishnagiri district is one of the 38 districts (a district in the northwestern part) of the state of Tamil Nadu, in India. This district was carved out from Dharmapuri District in 2004. The municipal town of Krishnagiri is the district headquarters. In Tamil Nadu, e-Governance was first introduced at Krishnagiri district under the National e-Governance Project (NEGP) in revenue and social welfare departments on a pilot basis. The district is one of the largest producers of mangoes in India. As of 2011, the district had a population of 1,879,809 with a sex-ratio of 958 females for every 1,000 males. Hosur is the most populous city in the district.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Krishnagiri district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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