Udham Singh Nagar district
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district of Uttarakhand, India
Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Uttarakhand
- Division
- Kumaon
- Founded by
- Udham Singh Nagar has been carved out of Nainital.
- Named after
- Udham Singh
- Headquarters
- Rudrapur
- District magistrate
- Mr. Nitin Singh Bhadauria, IAS
- Total
- 2,542 km (981 sq mi)
- Rank
- 1st in State
- Density
- 1,258/km (3,259/sq mi)
- Official
- Hindi
- Additional official
- Sanskrit
- Regional
- Khariboli punjabi Tharu
- Time zone
- UTC+5:30 ( IST )
- Vehicle registration
- UK 06, UK 18
- Website
- usnagar .nic .in
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Uttar Pradesh
- Capital
- Rudrapur
- Population
- 1648902
- Area
- 2908
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Pilibhit district
- Official website
- usnagar.nic.in
- Households
- 308581
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- topic's main category
- Category:Udham Singh Nagar district
- male population
- 858783
- female population
- 790119
- urban population
- 586760
- rural population
- 1062142
- literate population
- 1037839
- illiterate population
- 611063
- short name
- USN
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
Udham Singh Nagar district is a district of Uttarakhand state in northern India. Rudrapur is the district headquarter. The district consists of nine Tehsils named Bajpur, Gadarpur, Jaspur, Kashipur, Khatima, Kichha, Nanakmatta, Rudrapur, Sitarganj. The district is located in the Terai region, and is part of Kumaon Division. It is bounded on the north by Nainital District, on the northeast by Champawat District, on the east by Nepal, and on the south and west by Bareilly, Rampur, Moradabad, Pilibhit and Bijnor District of Uttar Pradesh state. The district was created on 29 September 1995, by Mayawati government out of Nainital District. It is named for freedom fighter and Indian revolutionary Udham Singh.
As of 2011, it is the third most populous district of Uttarakhand (out of 13), after Haridwar and Dehradun.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Udham Singh Nagar district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.