Sangrur district
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Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Punjab
- Headquarters
- Sangrur
- Total
- 2,848 km (1,100 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 232 m (761 ft)
- Density
- 430.3/km (1,114/sq mi)
- Official
- Punjabi
- Regional
- Punjabi ( Malwai ) ( Puadhi )
- Time zone
- UTC+5:30 ( IST )
- Telephone code
- 01672
- Vehicle registration
- PB 13
- Website
- sangrur .nic .in
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Punjab
- Capital
- Sangrur
- Population
- 1655169
- Area
- 3685
- Elevation
- 232
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Mansa district
- Official website
- sangrur.nic.in
- Households
- 318870
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- postal code
- 148001
- topic's main category
- Category:Sangrur district
- Commons category
- Sangrur district
- male population
- 878029
- female population
- 777140
- urban population
- 515965
- rural population
- 1139204
- literate population
- 1002077
- illiterate population
- 653092
- short name
- SNR
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Encyclopedic overview
Sangrur district is in the state of Punjab in northern India. Sangrur city is the district headquarters. It is one of the five districts in Patiala Division in the Indian state of Punjab. Neighbouring districts are Malerkotla (north), Barnala (west), Patiala (east), Mansa (southwest) and Fatehabad (Haryana) and Jind (Haryana) (south).
Sangrur consists of the cities of Dhuri, Lehragaga, Sangrur, and Sunam. Other cities are Bhawanigarh, Dirba, Khanauri, Longowal, Cheema and Moonak. There are 7 sub-divisions, being Sangrur, Dhuri, Sunam, Lehragaga, Moonak, Bhawanigarh and Dirba. Till 2006, Barnala was also a part of Sangrur district, but now it is a separate district. In 2021, a new district Malerkotla district, consisting of Malerkotla and Ahmedgarh subdivisions and the Amargarh sub-tehsil, was formed out of Sangrur district. Parts of the district are located in the Tihara sub-region of the larger Malwa region.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sangrur district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.