West Singhbhum district
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Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Jharkhand
- Division
- Kolhan
- Headquarters
- Chaibasa
- Deputy commissioner
- Shri Manish Kumar ( IAS )
- Lok sabha constituencies
- Singhbhum (shared with Seraikela Kharsawan district)
- Vidhan sabha constituencies
- Chaibasa , Majhgaon , Jaganathpur , Manoharpur , Chakradharpur
- Total
- 7,224 km (2,789 sq mi)
- Density
- 208.0/km (538.6/sq mi)
- Literacy rate
- 67.70 %
- Official
- Hindi and English
- Regional
- Ho , Mundari , Odia and Santali
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30 ( IST )
- Vehicle registration
- JH-06
- Average annual precipitation
- 1422 mm
- Website
- chaibasa .nic .in
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Kolhan division
- Capital
- Chaibasa
- Population
- 1502338
- Area
- 9907
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Mayurbhanj district
- Official website
- chaibasa.nic.in
- Households
- 302046
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- topic's main category
- Category:West Singhbhum district
- short name
- WSM
- inception
- 1990-00-00
- male population
- 749385
- female population
- 752953
- urban population
- 218034
- rural population
- 1284304
- literate population
- 727561
- illiterate population
- 774777
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Encyclopedic overview
West Singhbhum district or Pashchimi Singhbhum district is one of the 24 districts of Jharkhand state, India. It came into existence on 16 January 1990, when the old Singhbhum district (then in Bihar) was bifurcated. Chaibasa is the district headquarter.
The district is bounded on north by Khunti district, on the east by Saraikela Kharsawan district of Jharkhand, on the southeast by Mayurbhanj district of Odisha, on the south by Kendujhar district of Odisha, and on the west by Simdega district of Jharkhand and Sundergarh district of Odisha.West Singhbhum district is located in southern part of Jharkhand
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “West Singhbhum district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.