Panchkula district
Sign in to savedistrict of Haryana, India
Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Haryana
- Headquarters
- Panchkula
- Tehsils
- 1. Panchkula, 2. Kalka
- Lok sabha constituencies
- Ambala (shared with Ambala and Yamuna Nagar districts)
- Vidhan sabha constituencies
- 1. KALKA, 2. PANCHKULA
- Total
- 898 km (347 sq mi)
- Density
- 625/km (1,620/sq mi)
- Official
- Hindi
- Regional
- Baghati Haryanvi Puadhi
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30 ( IST )
- Vehicle registration
- HR 03
- Website
- panchkula .gov .in
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Ambala division
- Capital
- Panchkula
- Population
- 561293
- Area
- 816
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Ambala district
- Official website
- panchkula.nic.in
- Households
- 117107
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- short name
- PNK
- Commons category
- Panchkula district
- topic's main category
- Category:Panchkula district
- male population
- 299679
- female population
- 261614
- urban population
- 313230
- rural population
- 248063
- literate population
- 405318
- illiterate population
- 155975
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Encyclopedic overview
Panchkula district was formed as the 17th district of the Indian state of Haryana on 15 August 1995. It comprises two sub divisions and two tehsils: Panchkula and Kalka. It has 264 villages, out of which 12 are uninhabited and ten have been wholly merged with towns or treated as census towns according to the 1991 census. There are five towns in the district: Barwala, Kalka, Panchkula, Pinjore and Raipur Rani.
At the 2011 Census of India, it was the least populous district of Haryana.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Panchkula district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.