Alwar district
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Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Rajasthan
- Division
- Jaipur
- Headquarters
- Alwar
- Tehsils 12
- Alwar , Govindgarh , Tehla , Kathumar , Laxmangarh , Rajgarh , Ramgarh, Thanagazi, Pratapgarh , Reni , Malakhera, Naugaon
- District collector magistrate
- Ashish Gupta, IAS
- Superintendent of police
- Anand Sharma, IPS
- Total
- 4,931.45 km (1,904.04 sq mi)
- Density
- 408.557/km (1,058.16/sq mi)
- Literacy
- 71.68%
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30 ( IST )
- Vehicle registration
- RJ-02
- Website
- alwar .rajasthan .gov .in
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Jaipur division
- Capital
- Alwar
- Population
- 3674179
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Official website
- alwar.nic.in
- Image
- Bhangarh temple.. Surrounded by nature's beauty.jpg
- Households
- 639720
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- Commons category
- Alwar district
- topic's main category
- Category:Alwar district
- male population
- 1939026
- female population
- 1735153
- urban population
- 654451
- rural population
- 3019728
- literate population
- 2182476
- illiterate population
- 1491703
- short name
- ALW
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
Alwar district is a district in the state of Rajasthan in northern India, whose district headquarters is Alwar city. The district covers 8,337 km. It is bound on the north by Khairthal Tijara and Kot Behror district of Rajasthan, on the east by Bharatpur district of Rajasthan and Nuh district of Haryana, on the south by Dausa district, and on the west by Jaipur district.
As of 2011, it is the third most populous district of Rajasthan (out of 33), after Jaipur and Jodhpur.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alwar district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.