Balasore district
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district of Odisha, India
Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Odisha
- Headquarter
- Balasore
- Member of parliament
- Pratap Chandra Sarangi ( BJP )
- Collector district magistrate
- Satya Sarathi Panda
- Superintendent of police
- Sudhanshu Sekhar Mishra, IPS
- Total
- 3,634 km (1,403 sq mi)
- Forest
- 441.3 km (170.4 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 90.08 m (295.5 ft)
- Density
- 637.7/km (1,652/sq mi)
- Urban
- 253,293 ( 10.93%)
- Scheduled castes
- 478,586 ( 20.65%)
- Scheduled tribes
- 275,678 ( 11.9%)
- Official
- Odia
- Time zone
- UTC+5:30 ( IST )
- Pin
- 756 xxx
- Telephone code
- 06782
- Vehicle registration
- OD-01
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Capital
- Balasore
- Population
- 2320529
- Area
- 3634
- Elevation
- 90.08
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Purba Medinipur district
- Official website
- baleswar.nic.in
- Image
- Chandipur.jpg
- Households
- 533001
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- topic's main category
- Category:Balasore district
- Commons category
- Balasore district
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- male population
- 1185787
- female population
- 1134742
- urban population
- 253293
- rural population
- 2067236
- literate population
- 1621232
- illiterate population
- 699297
- short name
- BLW
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Encyclopedic overview
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Balasore district, also known as Baleswar district, is an administrative district of Odisha state, in eastern India. Balasore is one of the coastal districts of Odisha and lies on the northernmost part of the state.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Balasore district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.