Amritsar district
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Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Punjab
- Named after
- Suffice of Amrit
- Headquarters
- Amritsar
- Commissioner of police
- Arun Pal Singh
- Total
- 2,683 km (1,036 sq mi)
- Density
- 928.3/km (2,404/sq mi)
- Official
- Punjabi
- Time zone
- UTC+5:30 ( IST )
- Vehicle registration
- PB-01(commercial) PB-02, PB-14, PB-17, PB-18, PB-81, PB-89
- Literacy 7
- 76.27%
- Website
- amritsar .nic .in
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Encyclopedic overview
Amritsar district is one of the twenty three districts that make up the Indian state of Punjab. Located in the Majha region of Punjab, the city of Amritsar is the headquarters of this district.
As of 2011, it is the second most populous district of Punjab (out of 23), after Ludhiana. It is a border district of Punjab and lies along the India-Pakistan border.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Amritsar district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.