Surguja district
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Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Chhattisgarh
- Headquarters
- Ambikapur
- Total
- 5,732 km (2,213 sq mi)
- Density
- 146.6/km (379.7/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30 ( IST )
- Pin
- 497xxx (Surguja)
- Vehicle registration
- CG-15
- Website
- surguja .nic .in
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Capital
- Ambikapur
- Population
- 2359886
- Area
- 15731
- Elevation
- 1226
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Jashpur district
- Official website
- surguja.nic.in
- Households
- 526049
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- Commons category
- Surguja district
- topic's main category
- Category:Surguja district
- male population
- 1193129
- female population
- 1166757
- urban population
- 242921
- rural population
- 2116965
- literate population
- 1187941
- illiterate population
- 1171945
- short name
- SRG
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Encyclopedic overview
Adivasi decorative clay figures of Surguja district at the Quai Branly Museum, Paris Surguja district is a district of the Indian state of Chhattisgarh. The district is one of the oldest districts of Chhattisgarh. The headquarters of the district is Ambikapur.
The district lies in its eponymous Surguja dialectal region (where Surgujia is spoken) and is to the east of the Vindhyachal-Baghelkhand region of peninsular India.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Surguja district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.