Moga district
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Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Punjab
- Headquarters
- Moga
- Total
- 2,235 km (863 sq mi)
- Density
- 444/km (1,150/sq mi)
- Official
- Punjabi
- Time zone
- UTC+5:30 ( IST )
- Hdi 2017
- 0.705 ( High )
- Website
- moga .nic .in
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Punjab
- Capital
- Moga
- Population
- 995746
- Area
- 2235
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Ludhiana district
- Official website
- moga.nic.in
- Households
- 193256
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- Commons category
- Moga district
- topic's main category
- Category:Moga district
- male population
- 525920
- female population
- 469826
- urban population
- 227246
- rural population
- 768500
- literate population
- 627889
- illiterate population
- 367857
- short name
- MOG
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Encyclopedic overview
Districts of Punjab along with their headquarters
Moga district is one of the twenty-three districts in the state of Punjab, India. It became the 17th district of Punjab state on 24 November 1995, being cut from the Faridkot and Firozpur districts. Moga district is among the largest producers of wheat and rice in Punjab, India. People from Moga city and Moga district belong to the Malwa culture. The district is noted for being the homeland for a high-proportion of Indian Punjabi expatriates who emigrated abroad and their descendants, which has given it the nickname of "NRI district". Parts of the district are located in the Tihara sub-region of the larger Malwa region.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Moga district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.