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Varanasi district
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Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Uttar Pradesh
- Division
- Varanasi
- Headquarters
- Varanasi
- District magistrate
- Satyendra Kumar, IAS
- Police commissioner
- Mohit Agarwal, IPS
- Mayor
- Ashok Tiwari, BJP
- Lok sabha constituencies
- Varanasi
- Member of parliament lok sabha
- Narendra Modi ( Prime Minister of India )
- Total
- 1,535 km (593 sq mi)
- Estimate 2021
- 4,110,000
- Density
- 2,395/km (6,204/sq mi)
- Urban
- 1,597,051 (43.4%)
- Rural
- 2,079,790 (56.6%)
- Literacy
- 78.41%
- Official
- Hindi
- Additional official
- Urdu
- Regional
- Bhojpuri
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Named after
- Varanasi
- Country
- British Raj
- Located in
- Benares State
- Capital
- Varanasi
- Population
- 3676841
- Area
- 1578
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Chandauli district
- Households
- 560162
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- Category:Varanasi district
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- Varanasi district
- male population
- 1921857
- female population
- 1754984
- short name
- VRN
- urban population
- 1597051
- rural population
- 2079790
- literate population
- 2403903
- illiterate population
- 1272938
- different from
- Varanasi division
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Encyclopedic overview
Varanasi district is a district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, with the holy city of Varanasi as the district headquarters. It is also the headquarters of the Varanasi division which contains 4 districts (including Varanasi).
It is surrounded by Mirzapur district, Jaunpur district, Ghazipur district, Chandauli district, and Bhadohi district. The Ganga (Ganges) river flows through the district. Part of the Varanasi division, the district occupies an area of 1,535 square kilometres (593 sq mi) and as of the 2011 Census of India, it had a population of 3,676,841.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Varanasi district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.