Kurukshetra district
Sign in to savedistrict of Haryana, India
Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Haryana
- Headquarters
- Kurukshetra
- Tehsils
- 1. Thanesar , 2. Shahabad 3. Pehowa , 4. Ladwa
- Total
- 1,530 km (590 sq mi)
- Density
- 630/km (1,630/sq mi)
- Official
- Hindi
- Regional
- Haryanvi Puadhi
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30 ( IST )
- Lok sabha constituencies
- Kurukshetra (shared with Yamuna Nagar and Kaithal districts)
- Website
- http://kurukshetra.gov.in/
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Ambala division
- Capital
- Kurukshetra
- Population
- 964655
- Area
- 1683
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Karnal district
- Official website
- kurukshetra.gov.in
- Households
- 188143
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- topic's main category
- Category:Kurukshetra district
- Commons category
- Kurukshetra district
- male population
- 510976
- female population
- 453679
- short name
- Kurukshetra
- urban population
- 279225
- rural population
- 685430
- literate population
- 646893
- illiterate population
- 317762
- different from
- Kurukshetra
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Encyclopedic overview
Kurukshetra district is one of the 22 districts of Haryana state in northern India. The town of Kurukshetra, a sacred place for the Hindus, is the administrative headquarters of this district. The district occupies an area of 1530.00 km. The district has a population of 964,655 (2011 census). This district is part of Ambala division. Kurukshetra is also the land of Srimad Bhagawad Gita. Jyotisar is the place in Kurukshetra where Krishna is believed to deliver the sermon of Gita to Arjuna in the Mahabharata.
Origin of name
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kurukshetra district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.