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Chitradurga district
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Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Karnataka
- Division
- Bangalore Division
- Headquarters
- Chitradurga
- Talukas
- Challakere , Chitradurga , Hiriyur , Holalkere , Hosdurga , Molakalmuru
- Deputy commissioner
- Shri. Venkatesh T., ( IAS )
- Member of parliament
- Govind Karjol
- Superintendent of police
- Ranjith Kumar Bandaru, I.P.S.
- Total
- 8,440 km (3,260 sq mi)
- Elevation highest
- 1,094 m (3,589 ft)
- Density
- 197/km (509/sq mi)
- Official
- Kannada
- Time zone
- UTC+5:30 ( IST )
- Pin
- 577 501, 502, 577524
- Telephone code
- + 91 (8194)
- Iso 3166 code
- IN-KA-CT
- Vehicle registration
- Chitradurga KA-16
- Sex ratio
- 1.047 ♂ / ♀
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Kingdom of Mysore
- Continent
- Asia
- Capital
- Chitradurga
- Official language
- Kannada
- Population
- 1659456
- Area
- 8440
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Anantapuramu district
- Official website
- chitradurga.nic.in
- Households
- 357003
- Dialing code
- 8194
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- Commons category
- Chitradurga district
- topic's main category
- Category:Chitradurga district
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Chitradurga district
- male population
- 840843
- female population
- 818613
- urban population
- 329533
- rural population
- 1329923
- postal code
- 577501
- literate population
- 1087392
- illiterate population
- 572064
- short name
- CTR
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
Chitradurga district is an administrative district of Karnataka state in south-western India. The city of Chitradurga is the district headquarters. Chitradurga city gets its name from 'Chitrakaldurga', meaning 'picturesque castle' in Kannada.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chitradurga district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.