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Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- West Bengal
- Division
- Burdwan
- Headquarters
- Suri
- Subdivisions
- Suri Sadar , Bolpur , Rampurhat
- Cd blocks
- Mohammad Bazar , Rajnagar , Suri I , Suri II , Sainthia , Dubrajpur , Khoyrasol , Labpur , Nanoor , Bolpur Sriniketan , Ilambazar , Murarai I , Murarai II , Nalhati I , Nalhati II , Rampurhat I , Rampurhat II , Mayureswar I , Mayureswar II
- Lok sabha constituencies
- Bolpur , Birbhum
- Vidhan sabha constituencies
- Dubrajpur , Suri , Bolpur , Nanoor , Labpur , Sainthia , Mayureswar , Rampurhat , Hansan , Nalhati , Murarai
- District magistrate
- Bidhan Ray, WBCS (Exe)
- Total
- 4,545 km (1,755 sq mi)
- Density
- 893/km (2,310/sq mi)
- Urban
- 449,448
- Literacy
- 70.9 per cent
- Sex ratio
- 956 ♂ / ♀
- Official
- Bengali
- Additional official
- English
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30 ( IST )
- Website
- birbhum .gov .in
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Official name
- ᱵᱤᱨᱵᱷᱩᱢ ᱦᱚᱱᱚᱛ
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Burdwan division
- Contains
- Rampurhat subdivision
- Capital
- Suri
- Population
- 3015422
- Area
- 4545
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Dumka district
- Official website
- birbhum.nic.in
- Households
- 598429
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- native label
- বীরভূম জেলা
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Birbhum district
- topic's main category
- Category:Birbhum district
- Commons category
- Birbhum district
- male population
- 1546633
- female population
- 1468789
- urban population
- 258420
- rural population
- 2757002
- short name
- BIR
- illiterate population
- 1461570
- literate population
- 1553852
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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Encyclopedic overview
Birbhum district ( Bengali pronunciation: [biːrbʰuːm]) is an administrative unit in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the northernmost district of Burdwan division—one of the five administrative divisions of West Bengal. The district headquarters is in Suri. Other important cities are Rampurhat, Bolpur and Sainthia. Jamtara, Dumka and Pakur districts of the state of Jharkhand lie at the western border of this district; the border in other directions is covered by the districts of Bardhaman of Purba Bardhaman, Paschim Bardhaman and Murshidabad of West Bengal.
Often called "the land of red soil", Birbhum is noted for its topography and its cultural heritage which is somewhat different from the other districts in West Bengal. The western part of Birbhum is a bushy region, a part of the Chota Nagpur Plateau. This region gradually merges with the fertile alluvial farmlands in the east.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Birbhum district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.