Udham Singh Nagar District (officially District of Udham Singh Nagar )is a district of

Uttarakhand Uttarakhand ( , or ; , ), also known as Uttaranchal ( ; the official name until 2007), is a state in the northern part of India. It is often referred to as the "Devbhumi" (literally 'Land of the Gods') due to its religious significance and ...

state in northern

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. Rudrapur is the district headquarters. This district consists of nine

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s named Bajpur, Gadarpur, Rudrapur,

Jaspur Jaspur is a developing town and a municipal board in Udham Singh Nagar district in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. Demographics As of the 2001 India census, Jaspur had a population of 39,048. Males constituted 53% of the population and females ...

, Kashipur,

Kichha Kichha is oldest tehseel of Udham Singh Nagar district. It is older than Rudrapur city. It has its own municipal board, located in Udham Singh Nagar district, Uttarakhand, India. Geography Kichha is located at . The town has an average elevatio ...

Khatima Khatima is a city and a municipal board in Udham Singh Nagar district in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. Khatima is located at . It has an average elevation of 299 metres (980 feet). Demographics As of 2011 Indian Census, Khatima had a ...

Sitarganj Sitarganj is a city and a municipal board in Udham Singh Nagar district in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. Now it is home to the Integrated Industrial Estate Sitarganj (IIE) being developed by State Industrial Development Corporation of Uttarak ...

, Nanakmatta. The district is located in the

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region, and is part of

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. It is bounded on the north by

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, on the northeast by Champawat District, on the east by

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, and on the south and west by

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, Rampur,

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and

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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

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and

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Tehsils in Udham Singh Nagar district

# Kashipur #

# Bajpur # Gadarpur # Rudrapur #

# Nanakmatta #

Cities in Udham Singh Nagar district

# Rudrapur # Kashipur #

# Bajpur # Gadarpur # Dineshpur # Pantnagar #

# Nanakmatta #

# Sultanpur, Uttarakhand

Administrative divisions

The district lies in Nainital–Udhamsingh Nagar (Lok Sabha constituency). which includes whole

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as well as Udham Singh Nagar district. For election purposes Udham Singh Nagar district is divided into nine

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constituencies: # Bajpur Assembly constituency # Kashipur Assembly constituency # Rudrapur Assembly constituency # Kichha Assembly constituency # Sitarganj Assembly constituency # Khatima Assembly constituency # Gadarpur Assembly constituency # Nanakmatta Assembly constituency # Jaspur Assembly constituency

Demographics

According to the 2011 census Udham Singh Nagar district has a

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of 1,648,902, roughly equal to the nation of

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or the US state of

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. The population in the age range of 0–6 years was 229,162. The number of literates in Udham Singh Nagar district is 1,037,839 (62.9%), with 598,525 (68.7%) male literates and 751,789 (55.6%) female literates. The effective 7+ literacy of the district is 73.1%. The

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of 920 females for every 1,000 males. The

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population was 238,264 (14.45%) and 123,037 (7.46%) respectively. There were 308581 households in the district in 2011.

Languages

The major languages of the district according to the 2011 census are

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(%),

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(%),

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(%),

Urdu Urdu (;"Urdu"
'' Kumaoni (%),

Bhojpuri Bhojpuri (;Bhojpuri entry, Oxford Dictionaries
, Oxford U ...

(%), and Tharu (%). The two Tharu languages spoken are Buksa (mostly in the development blocks of Bajpur and Gadarpur), and

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(in the areas of

and

Education

Govind Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture & Technology in Pantnagar, is located 5 km from Rudrapur.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Udham Singh Nagar District Districts of Uttarakhand Minority Concentrated Districts in India