Samastipur district
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Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Bihar
- Division
- Darbhanga
- Headquarters
- Samastipur
- Subdivisions
- Samastipur, Dalsinghsarai, Rosera, Patori
- Lok sabha constituencies
- Samastipur , Ujiarpur
- Vidhan sabha constituencies
- Kalyanpur , Warisnagar , Samastipur , Ujiarpur , Morwa , Sarairanjan , Mohiuddinnagar , Bibhutipur , Rosera , Hasanpur
- Total
- 2,904 km (1,121 sq mi)
- Density
- 1,467/km (3,801/sq mi)
- Demonym
- Maithil
- Literacy
- 61.86%
- Sex ratio
- 911 females/1000 males
- Official language mother language
- Hindi Maithili
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30 ( IST )
- Pin
- 848101 (Samastipur)
- Vehicle registration
- BR33
- Major highways
- NH-122 , NH-322
- Website
- samastipur .nic .in
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Darbhanga division
- Capital
- Samastipur
- Population
- 4261566
- Area
- 2904
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Begusarai district
- Official website
- www.samastipur.bih.nic.in
- Households
- 835493
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- topic's main category
- Category:Samastipur district
- male population
- 2230003
- female population
- 2031563
- urban population
- 147797
- rural population
- 4113769
- literate population
- 2142880
- illiterate population
- 2118686
- short name
- SMS
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
via Wikidata · CC0
~5 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Samastipur district is one of the thirty-eight districts of Bihar in India. The district headquarters are located at Samastipur. The district occupies an area of 2904km² and has a population of 4,261,566.
Samastipur was the largest milk producing district of Bihar in 2022.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Samastipur district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.