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Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Tamil Nadu
- Established
- February 1882
- Named after
- Nilgiri Mountains
- Headquarters
- Udhagamandalam
- Talukas
- Udhagamandalam , Coonoor , Kotagiri , Kundah , Gudalur , Pandalur
- Collector district magistrate
- Lakshmi Bhavya Thaneeru, ( IAS )
- Superintendent of police
- N S Nisha, ( IPS )
- District forest officer
- S Gowtham, ( IFS )
- Total
- 2,565 km (990 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 1,800 m (5,900 ft)
- Density
- 286.7/km (742.6/sq mi)
- Official
- Tamil , English
- Minority
- Malayalam , Kannada
- Time zone
- UTC+5:30 ( IST )
- Pin
- 643xxx
- Telephone code
- +91-0423
- Iso 3166 code
- [[ISO 3166-2:IN|]]
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Madras Presidency
- Capital
- Ooty
- Population
- 735394
- Area
- 2549
- Elevation
- 2789
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Coimbatore district
- Official website
- www.nilgiris.tn.gov.in
- Image
- The Nilgiri Mountain Railway.jpg
- Households
- 197653
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- Commons category
- Nilgiris district
- topic's main category
- Category:Nilgiris district
- postal code
- 643001
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Nilgiris district
- inception
- 1882-02-00
- male population
- 360143
- female population
- 375251
- urban population
- 435655
- rural population
- 299739
- literate population
- 569647
- illiterate population
- 165747
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- short name
- NIL
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