Ranchi district
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Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Jharkhand
- Division
- South Chotanagpur
- Headquarters
- Ranchi
- District subdivisions
- Ranchi Sadar Bundu
- Member of parliament
- Sanjay Seth (BJP), Sukhdeo Bhagat (INC)
- Deputy commissioner
- Shri Manjunath Bhajantri ( IAS )
- Senior superintendent of police
- SP Shri Rakesh Ranjan ( IPS )
- Vidhan sabha constituencies
- Tamar , Silli , Khijri , Ranchi , Hatia , Kanke , Mandar
- Total
- 5,097 km (1,968 sq mi)
- Density
- 572/km (1,480/sq mi)
- Official
- Hindi
- Regional
- Sadri , Kurmali , Kurukh , Mundari
- Literacy
- 76.06%
- Time zone
- UTC+5:30 ( IST )
- Iso 3166 code
- IN-JH
- Loksabha
- Ranchi
- Major highways
- NH 20 , NH 43 , NH 39 , NH 320 , NH 143AG
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Official website
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- South Chotanagpur division
- Capital
- Ranchi
- Population
- 2914253
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Latehar district
- Official website
- ranchi.nic.in
- Households
- 569444
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- Commons category
- Ranchi district
- topic's main category
- Category:Ranchi district
- male population
- 1494937
- female population
- 1419316
- urban population
- 1257335
- rural population
- 1656918
- literate population
- 1911433
- illiterate population
- 1002820
- short name
- RNC
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Encyclopedic overview
Ranchi district is the most populous district of Jharkhand state in eastern India. Ranchi, the capital of Jharkhand, is the district headquarters.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ranchi district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.