Munger district
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Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Bihar
- Division
- Munger
- Established
- 3 December 1834
- Headquarters
- Munger
- Lok sabha constituencies
- Munger
- Vidhan sabha constituencies
- Tarapur , Jamalpur and Munger
- Total
- 1,419.7 km (548.1 sq mi)
- Density
- 963.42/km (2,495.2/sq mi)
- Literacy
- 73.30 per cent
- Time zone
- UTC+5:30 ( IST )
- Pin
- 811201 to 811214, 813201
- Telephone code
- +91-6344; +91-6342
- Vehicle registration
- BR-08
- Major highways
- NH-33 , NH-333 , NH-333B
- Average annual precipitation
- 1146 mm
- Website
- munger .nic .in
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Encyclopedic overview
Munger district is one of the thirty-eight districts of Bihar state in eastern India. The city of Munger is the administrative headquarters of this district. The district is a part of Munger Division. Its literacy rate of 73.3% is higher than the state literacy rate of 63.8%, but lower than national rate of 74.04%.
The present collector and District Magistrate of Munger is Arvind Kumar Verma (IAS). Rajeev Rajan Singh Urf Lalan Singh is the district's MP.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Munger district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.