Patna district
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Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Bihar
- Division
- Patna
- Headquarters
- Patna
- Lok sabha constituencies
- 1. Pataliputra , 2. Patna sahib , 3. Munger (shared with Munger district)
- Total
- 3,202 km (1,236 sq mi)
- Rank
- (IN: 15th)
- Density
- 1,823/km (4,723/sq mi)
- Urban
- 2,514,590
- Literacy 2011
- 70.68%
- Sex ratio
- 1.897 ♂ / ♀
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30 ( IST )
- Major highways
- NH 30 , NH 83
- Hdi 2016
- 0.811 ( high )
- Gdp district 2023
- US$30 (equivalent to $33.01 in 2025)Billion
- Website
- patna .nic .in
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Bengal Presidency
- Capital
- Patna
- Population
- 5838465
- Area
- 3202
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Arwal district
- Official website
- patna.nic.in
- Image
- City of Patna, on the River Ganges, 19th century.jpg
- Households
- 975578
- Dialing code
- 0612
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- Commons category
- Patna district
- topic's main category
- Category:Patna district
- male population
- 3078512
- female population
- 2759953
- urban population
- 2514590
- rural population
- 3323875
- literate population
- 3459679
- illiterate population
- 2378786
- short name
- PTN
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Patna district is one of the thirty-eight districts of Bihar state in eastern India. Patna, the capital of Bihar, is the district headquarters. The Patna district is a part of the Patna division. The Patna district is divided into 6 Subdivisions (Tehsils) i.e. Patna Sadar, Patna City, Barh, Masaurhi, Danapur and Paliganj.
As of 2011, it is the most populous district of Bihar and the fifteenth most populous district in India.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Patna district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.