Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Bihar
- Division
- Patna
- Headquarters
- Buxar
- Blocks
- Block List (11) Buxar Itarhi Chausa Rajpur Dumraon Nawanagar Brahmpur Kesath Chakki Chaugain Simri
- Member of parliament
- Sudhakar Singh
- District magistrate
- Anshul Agarwal (IAS)
- Total
- 1,624 km (627 sq mi)
- Density
- 1,051/km (2,721/sq mi)
- Urban
- 164,499
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30 ( IST )
- Vehicle registration
- BR-44
- Major highways
- NH-84
- Website
- buxar .nic .in
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Patna division
- Capital
- Buxar
- Population
- 1706352
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Ballia district
- Official website
- buxar.bih.nic.in
- Households
- 261660
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- topic's main category
- Category:Buxar district
- male population
- 887977
- female population
- 818375
- urban population
- 164499
- rural population
- 1541853
- literate population
- 989807
- illiterate population
- 716545
- short name
- BUX
- Commons category
- Buxar district
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Buxar district is one of the 38 districts of Bihar, India. Located in the southwestern part of the state, it is primarily an agricultural district. The district headquarters is at the town of Buxar. Buxar district was carved out from Bhojpur district on 17 March 1991, and is in the southwest of Bihar.
Etymology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Buxar district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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