Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Haryana
- Division
- Faridabad
- Headquarters
- Nuh
- Tehsils
- Nuh , Ferozepur Jhirka , Punahana , Taoru
- Total
- 1,507 km (582 sq mi)
- Density
- 722.8/km (1,872/sq mi)
- Urban
- 11.39%
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30 ( IST )
- Vehicle registration
- 1. HR 27 (Nuh) 2.HR 28 (Ferozepur Jhirka) 3.HR 74 (RTA Nuh) 4.HR 93 (Punahana) 5.HR 96 (Taoru)
- Major highways
- National Highway 248-A (Gurgaon–Sohna–Alwar), KMP Expressway and Delhi–Mumbai Expressway
- Average annual precipitation
- 594 mm (23.4 in)
- Lok sabha constituencies
- Gurgaon (Lok Sabha constituency)
- Vidhan sabha constituencies
- 1. Nuh , 2. Ferozepur Jhirka , 3. Punahana , 4. Sohna-Taoru
- Website
- nuh .gov .in
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Nuh district, formerly known as the Mewat district, is one of the 22 districts of the northern Indian state of Haryana. The district is known for having the largest Muslim population in Haryana. It lies within the National Capital Region as well as the historical Mewat region and Braj region of India.
It has an area of 1,860 square kilometres (720 sq mi) and had a population of 1.09 million in 2011. It is bounded by Gurugram district to the north, Palwal district of Haryana to the east, Deeg and Alwar districts to the south and the Bharatpur district of Rajasthan to the west. There are four sub-divisions in this district: Nuh, Ferozepur Jhirka, Punahana, and Taoru.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nuh district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.