Ayodhya Cantonment (or Ayodhya Cantt) is a

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town in

Ayodhya district Ayodhya district (formerly Faizabad district) is one of the 75 districts in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The city of Ayodhya is its administrative headquarters. The district occupies an area of , and had a population of 2,470,9 ...

in the

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, close to the city of

Ayodhya Ayodhya () is a city situated on the banks of the Sarayu river in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is the administrative headquarters of the Ayodhya district as well as the Ayodhya division of Uttar Pradesh, India. Ayodhya became th ...

. Established in the year 1858, today it is a Class I cantonment. The official name was changed from Faizabad Cantonment to Ayodhya Cantonment in October 2022 by the

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Demographics

The 2011 Census of India showed that Ayodhya Cantonment had a population of 12,391 in 2,014 households. *There were 7,744 males and 4,647 females. The

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was 600.1 females per 1,000 males. *There were 1,368 children of six and under: 716 boys and 652 girls, giving a sex ratio of 910.6 girls per 1,000 boys. *There were 9,783 literates (89% of the population over six), of which 6,595 were male and 3,188 were female (85% and 69% of the male and female population over six).

References

External links

Cantonment Board, website

cbfaizabad.org
Cities and towns in Ayodhya district Faizabad Cantonment towns in Uttar Pradesh Cantonments of British India Cantonments of India Populated places established in 1878 {{Faizabad-geo-stub