Kushinagar district
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Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Uttar Pradesh
- Division
- Gorakhpur
- Established as padrauna
- 13 May 1994
- Name changed from padrauna to kushinagar
- 19 June 1997
- Headquarters
- Padrauna
- Tehsils
- Padrauna Sadar, Khadda, Kushinagar/Kasia, Hata, Tamkuhiraj, Captanganj
- Member of parliament kushinagar
- Vijay Kumar Dubey
- Lok sabha constituencies
- Kushinagar
- Vidhan sabha constituencies
- Padrauna Sadar, Khadda, Ramkola, Hata, Fazilnagar, Tamkuhiraj, Kushinagar
- Total
- 2,873.5 km (1,109.5 sq mi)
- Density
- 1,240.5/km (3,212.9/sq mi)
- Urban
- 4.87%
- Official
- Hindi , Urdu
- Regional
- Bhojpuri
- Literacy
- 67.66 per cent
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30 ( IST )
- Vehicle registration
- UP 57
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Gorakhpur division
- Capital
- Padrauna
- Population
- 3564544
- Area
- 2909
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Deoria district
- Official website
- kushinagar.nic.in
- Households
- 561062
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- Commons category
- Kushinagar district
- topic's main category
- Category:Kushinagar district
- male population
- 1818055
- female population
- 1746489
- urban population
- 168107
- rural population
- 3396437
- literate population
- 1954820
- illiterate population
- 1609724
- short name
- KSN
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Encyclopedic overview
Kushinagar district is a district of the state of Uttar Pradesh in India situated in the easternmost part of the state. It has the administrative headquarters at Ravindra Nagar Dhoos. The district is named such after the town Kushinagar, a Buddhist pilgrimage site where Gautama Buddha attained parinirvana in the 5th century BCE. Since the independence of India, Kushinagar district was a part of Deoria District and came into existence on 13 May 1994 as a separate district division. It was earlier known as Padrauna and thereafter was renamed Kushinagar on 19 June 1997.
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