Solan district
Sign in to savedistrict of Himachal Pradesh, India
Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Himachal Pradesh
- Headquarters
- Solan
- Tehsils
- 1. Solan, 2. Kasauli, 3. Nalagarh, 4. Arki and 5. Kandaghat 6. Baddi 7. Ramshehar
- Lok sabha constituencies
- Shimla (Lok Sabha constituency) (shared with Sirmour and Shimla districts)
- Total
- 1,936 km (747 sq mi)
- Density
- 299.8/km (776.4/sq mi)
- Urban
- 18.22%
- Literacy
- 85.02%
- Official
- Hindi
- Additional official
- Sanskrit
- Regional
- Mahasui ( Baghati ( Baghliani ) ( Hinduri )
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30 ( IST )
- Average annual precipitation
- 1253 mm
- Website
- http://hpsolan.nic.in/
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Punjab
- Capital
- Solan
- Population
- 580320
- Area
- 1936
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Bilaspur district
- Official website
- hpsolan.nic.in
- Image
- Snowfall solan city.jpg
- Households
- 122425
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- Category:Solan district
- Commons category
- Solan district
- male population
- 308754
- female population
- 271566
- urban population
- 102147
- rural population
- 478173
- literate population
- 428578
- illiterate population
- 151742
- short name
- SLN
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Encyclopedic overview
Solan district is one of the twelve districts of the Himachal Pradesh state in northern India. The city of Solan is the administrative headquarters of the district. The district occupies an area of 1936 km. It is culturally part of the historical Mahasu region.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Solan district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.