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Uttara Kannada District
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district of Karnataka, India
Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Karnataka
- Established
- 1 November 1956
- Talukas
- Karwar Ankola Kumta Honnavar Bhatkal Sirsi Siddapur Yellapur Mundgod Haliyal Joida Dandeli
- District minister
- Mankal S Vaidya
- Mp
- Vishweshwar Hegde Kageri
- Dc
- Lakshmi Priya. K, I.A.S
- Total
- 10,291 km (3,973 sq mi)
- Rank
- 5th
- Elevation average
- 600 m (2,000 ft)
- Density
- 140/km (360/sq mi)
- Official
- Kannada
- Time zone
- UTC+5:30 ( IST )
- Pin
- 581xxx
- Telephone code
- +91 0(838x)
- Iso 3166 code
- IN-KA
- Vehicle registration
- Karwar KA 30 Sirsi KA 31 Honnavar KA 47 Dandeli KA 65
- Coastline
- 142 kilometres (88 mi)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Part of
- Kanara
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Belgaum division
- Capital
- Karwar
- Official language
- Kannada
- Population
- 1437169
- Area
- 10291
- Elevation
- 500
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- South Goa District
- Official website
- uttarakannada.nic.in
- Image
- Joggo 125.jpg
- Households
- 324530
- Dialing code
- 0838
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- Commons category
- Uttara Kannada district
- topic's main category
- Category:Uttara Kannada district
- postal code
- 581000–581999
- male population
- 726256
- female population
- 710913
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Uttara Kannada
- described by source
- The Nuttall Encyclopædia
- urban population
- 418981
- rural population
- 1018188
- literate population
- 1081906
- illiterate population
- 355263
- short name
- UKD
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Encyclopedic overview
Uttara Kannada is the fifth largest district in the Indian state of Karnataka, It is bordered by the state of Goa and Belagavi districts to the north, Dharwad District and Haveri District to the east, Shivamogga District, and Udupi District to the south, and the Laccadive Sea to the west. Karwar is the district headquarters, and Sirsi is the major commercial center in the district. The district's agroclimatic divisions include the coastal plain, consisting of Karwar, Ankola, Kumta, Honnavar and Bhatkal taluks and Malenadu, consisting of Sirsi, Siddapur, Yellapur, Haliyal, Dandeli, Joida and Mundgod taluks.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Uttara Kannada District” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.