Mirzapur district
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Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Uttar Pradesh
- Division
- Mirzapur
- Headquarters
- Mirzapur
- District magistrate
- Shri Pawan Kumar Gangwar, IAS
- Chairman nagar palika parishad mirzapur
- Shyam Sunder Keshari
- Lok sabha constituencies
- Mirzapur
- Member of parliament lok sabha
- Anupriya Patel (Minister of State for Commerce and Industry of India)
- Total
- 4,521 km (1,746 sq mi)
- Density
- 552.3/km (1,430/sq mi)
- Urban
- 347,567
- Literacy
- 70.38%
- Language
- Hindi • Bhojpuri
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30 ( IST )
- Vehicle registration
- UP-63
- Average annual precipitation
- 1043 mm
- Website
- Official Website
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Mirzapur division
- Capital
- Mirzapur-cum-Vindhyachal
- Population
- 2496970
- Area
- 4522
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Jaunpur district
- Official website
- mirzapur.nic.in
- Households
- 394925
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- Commons category
- Mirzapur district
- topic's main category
- Category:Mirzapur district
- male population
- 1312302
- female population
- 1184668
- urban population
- 347567
- rural population
- 2149403
- literate population
- 1428683
- illiterate population
- 1068287
- short name
- MZP
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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Encyclopedic overview
Mirzapur district is one of the 75 districts in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The district is bounded on the north by Bhadohi and Varanasi districts, on the east by Chandauli district, on the south by Sonbhadra district and Rewa district of Madhya Pradesh and on the northwest by Prayagraj. The district occupies an area of 4521km. Mirzapur city is the district headquarters. Mirzapur district is a part of Mirzapur division. This district is known for the Vindhyavasini temple in Vindhyachal and several tourist attractions like waterfalls like Rajdari and Devdari and dams. It consist of several Ghats where historical sculptures are still present. During the Ganges festival these Ghats are decorated with lights and earthen lamps.
It was once the largest district in Uttar Pradesh until Sonbhadra district was separated from Mirzapur in 1989.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mirzapur district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.