Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Karnataka
- Division
- Mysore division
- Headquarters
- Mysore
- Taluks
- Mysore Rural, Tirumakudalu Narasipura , Nanjangud , Heggadadevanakote , Hunsur , Piriyapatna , Krishnarajanagara , Sargur , Saligrama
- Type
- state govt.
- Deputy commissioner collector
- Lakshmikanth Reddy G., I.A.S
- Police commissioner mysuru city
- Seema Latkar, I.P.S
- Superintendent of police rural
- Vishnuvardhana N., I.P.S
- Total
- 6,854 km (2,646 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 746 m (2,448 ft)
- Density
- 437.9/km (1,134/sq mi)
- Official
- Kannada
- Time zone
- UTC+5:30 ( IST )
- Iso 3166 code
- IN-KA
- Vehicle registration
- KA-09, KA-45, KA-55
- Website
- mysore .nic .in
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Mysore district, officially Mysuru district, is an administrative district located in the southern part of the state of Karnataka, India. It is the administrative headquarters of Mysore division. and Mandya District was carved out of the original larger Mysore district in 1939. During state reorganisation, Kollegala was transferred from Coimbatore district. Then in 1997 a new district, Chamarajanagar district, was carved out of Mysore. Mysore district is bounded by Chamrajanagar district to the southeast, Mandya district to the east and northeast, Wayanad district of Kerala to the south, Kodagu district to the west, and Hassan district to the north.
This district has a prominent place in the history of Karnataka; Mysore was ruled by the Wodeyars from the year 1399 till the independence of India in the year 1947. It features many tourist destinations, from Mysore Palace to Nagarhole National Park. It is the third-most populous district in Karnataka (out of 31), after Bangalore Urban and Belgaum.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mysuru district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.