Meerut district
Sign in to savedistrict of Uttar Pradesh, India
Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Uttar Pradesh
- Division
- Meerut division
- Headquarters
- Meerut
- Lok sabha constituencies
- Meerut
- Total
- 2,522 km (974 sq mi)
- Density
- 1,365/km (3,537/sq mi)
- Urban
- 51.07 %
- Literacy
- 84.80 %
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30 ( IST )
- Major highways
- NH-58 , NE-3
- Website
- http://meerut.nic.in/
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Meerut division
- Capital
- Meerut
- Population
- 3443689
- Area
- 2522
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Amroha district
- Official website
- Meerut.nic.in
- Households
- 579110
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- topic's main category
- Category:Meerut district
- Commons category
- Meerut district
- male population
- 1825743
- female population
- 1617946
- urban population
- 1759182
- rural population
- 1684507
- literate population
- 2141488
- illiterate population
- 1302201
- short name
- MRT
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
Meerut district ( Hindi pronunciation: [meːɾəʈʰ]) is one of the districts of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, and a part of Delhi, with the city of Meerut as the district headquarters. Meerut District is also a part of the Meerut Division. The administrative head of district of Meerut is a District Magistrate while the administrative head of Meerut Division is Divisional Commissioner, an IAS officer.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Meerut district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.