Mau district
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Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Uttar Pradesh
- Division
- Azamgarh
- Headquarters
- Mau
- Tehsils
- Mau Ghosi
- Lok sabha constituencies
- Ghosi
- Vidhan sabha constituencies
- Ghosi, Madhuban, Maunath Bhanjan (Sadar), Muhammadabad-Gohna Assembly constituency
- Total
- 1,713 km (661 sq mi)
- Density
- 1,288/km (3,335/sq mi)
- Literacy
- 80.16 per cent
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30 ( IST )
- Major highways
- NH-24
- Website
- mau .nic .in
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Azamgarh division
- Capital
- Mau
- Population
- 2205968
- Area
- 1713
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Gorakhpur district
- Official website
- mau.nic.in
- Households
- 324424
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- Commons category
- Mau district
- male population
- 1114709
- female population
- 1091259
- urban population
- 499208
- rural population
- 1706760
- literate population
- 1363044
- illiterate population
- 842924
- short name
- MAU
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Encyclopedic overview
Mau district is one of the districts of Uttar Pradesh state of India, and Mau town is the district headquarters which is also one of the few remaining areas of handloom saree production in eastern Uttar Pradesh, specializing in Sadiya silk sarees. Mau was carved out as a separate district from Azamgarh on 19 November 1988. It is situated in the south-eastern part of the state with headquarters in Maunath Bhanjan. The district is surrounded by Ghazipur district to the south, Ballia district in the east, Azamgarh district in the west, and by Gorakhpur and Deoria districts to the north .
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mau district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.