Udupi district
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Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Karnataka
- Region
- Coastal Karnataka
- Established
- 25 August 1997
- Headquarters
- Udupi
- Talukas
- Udupi , Karkala , Kundapura , Hebri , Byndoor , Brahmavara & Kaup
- Type
- District Administration
- Body
- Zilla panchayat
- Deputy commissioner and district magistr
- Swaroopa T. K., IAS
- Chief executive officer
- Prateek Bayal ( IAS )
- Superintendent of police
- Hariram Shankar IPS
- District incharge minister
- Lakshmi Hebbalkar
- Total
- 3,880 km (1,500 sq mi)
- Density
- 303/km (786/sq mi)
- Official
- Kannada
- Regional
- Tulu , Kundapra bhashi , Konkani , Urdu , Beary , Malayalam
- Time zone
- UTC+5:30 ( IST )
- Pin
- 576 101
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Encyclopedic overview
Udupi district (also Udipi ( IPA: [uɖupi]) in Kannada or Odipu (IPA: [oɖipu]) in Tulu language) is an administrative subdivision in the Karnataka state of India, with the district headquarters in the city of Udupi. It is situated in the Canara old north Malabar coastal region. There are seven taluks, 233 villages and 21 towns in Udupi district. The three northern tehsils of Udupi, Kundapur and Karkala, were partitioned from Dakshina Kannada district (South Canara) to form Udupi district on 25 August 1997. Moodabidri was officially declared as new tehsil (taluk) in 2018.
In February 2018, the district was split to into 3 more taluks, with Byndoor being carved out of Kundapur taluk and the Udupi taluk being split into three parts. Along with the initial Udupi taluk, Kapu, Brahmavar and Hebri were created.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Udupi district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.