Thrissur district
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district of Kerala, India
Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Kerala
- Headquarters
- Thrissur
- Subdivisions
- Revenue Divisions: 2 Thrissur Chalakudy Taluks: 6 Thrissur Chalakudy Mukundapuram Kodungallur Chavakkad Kunnamkulam
- District collector
- Arjun Pandian IAS
- Commissioner of police
- Nakul Rajendra Deshmukh, IPS
- Superintendent of police rural
- B. Krishna Kumar, IPS
- Divisional forest officer thrissur
- Kurra Srinivas IFS
- Total
- 3,032 km (1,171 sq mi)
- Rank
- 4th
- Density
- 1,070/km (2,800/sq mi)
- Official
- Malayalam , English
- Time zone
- UTC+5:30 ( IST )
- Vehicle registration
- KL-08 Thrissur , KL-45 Irinjalakuda , KL-46 Guruvayur , KL-47 Kodungallur , KL-48 Wadakkancherry , KL-64 Chalakkudy , KL-75 Thriprayar
- Hdi 2005
- 0.781 ( High )
- Website
- thrissur .nic .in
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Kingdom of Cochin
- Capital
- Thrissur
- Population
- 3121200
- Area
- 3027
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Malappuram district
- Official website
- thrissur.nic.in/en
- Image
- Kanimangalam Valiyalukkal Bhagavathi Temple2.jpg
- Households
- 759210
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- Commons category
- Thrissur district
- topic's main category
- Category:Thrissur district
- male population
- 1480763
- female population
- 1640437
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Thrissur district
- urban population
- 2096406
- rural population
- 1024794
- literate population
- 2678548
- illiterate population
- 442652
- short name
- TSR
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Encyclopedic overview
Thrissur district ( Malayalam: [t̪riʃ(ː)uːr] ), anglicised as Trichur, is one of the 14 districts in the Indian state of Kerala. It is situated in the central region of the state. Spanning an area of about 3,032 km (1,171 sq mi), the district is home to over 9% of Kerala's population.
Thrissur district is bordered by the districts of Palakkad and Malappuram to the north, the district of Ernakulam to the south and Coimbatore to the east. The Arabian Sea lies to the west and Western Ghats stretches towards the east. It is part of the historical Malabar Coast, which has been trading internationally since ancient times. The main language spoken is Malayalam.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Thrissur district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.