Ambala district
Sign in to savedistrict of Haryana, India
Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Haryana
- Division
- Ambala
- Headquarters
- Ambala
- Tehsils
- 1. Ambala , 2. Barara , 3. Naraingarh 4. Ambala Cantt
- Total
- 1,569 km (606 sq mi)
- Density
- 719.2/km (1,863/sq mi)
- Urban
- 500,774
- Literacy
- 87.46%
- Official
- Hindi
- Regional
- Haryanvi (Ambalvi) Puadhi
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30 ( IST )
- Lok sabha constituencies
- Ambala (shared with Panchkula and Yamuna Nagar districts)
- Website
- http://ambala.nic.in/
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Punjab
- Capital
- Ambala
- Population
- 1128350
- Area
- 1569
- Elevation
- 275
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Panchkula district
- Official website
- Ambala.gov.in
- Households
- 224334
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- Commons category
- Ambala district
- topic's main category
- Category:Ambala district
- male population
- 598703
- female population
- 529647
- urban population
- 500774
- rural population
- 627576
- literate population
- 818025
- illiterate population
- 310325
- short name
- Ambala
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
Ambala district is one of the 22 districts of Haryana state in the country of India with Ambala town serving as the administrative headquarters of the district. District Ambala lies on the North-Eastern edge of Haryana and borders Punjab and Himachal Pradesh. Ambala district is a part of Ambala Division.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ambala district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.