Dantewada district
Sign in to saveAlso known as Dantewara District, Dakshin Bastar Dantewada, Dakshin Bastar District, South Bastar District
district of Chhattisgarh, India
Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Chhattisgarh
- Division
- Bastar
- Headquarters
- Dantewada
- District collector
- Shri Mayank Chaturvedi (IAS)
- Total
- 3,410.50 km (1,316.80 sq mi)
- Density
- 83.1195/km (215.278/sq mi)
- Literacy
- 42.12 per cent
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30 ( IST )
- Website
- dantewada .nic .in
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Capital
- Dantewada
- Population
- 533638
- Area
- 10239
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Malkangiri district
- Official website
- dantewada.nic.in
- Households
- 120850
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- topic's main category
- Category:Dantewada district
- short name
- DNT
- inception
- 1999-00-00
- male population
- 264142
- female population
- 269496
- urban population
- 96233
- rural population
- 437405
- literate population
- 191237
- illiterate population
- 342401
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Encyclopedic overview
Dakshin Bastar Dantewada district, also known as Dantewara district, is a district in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh. Dantewada is the district headquarters. The district is part of Bastar Division. Until 1998, Dantewada District was a tehsil of the larger Bastar District.
As of 2011 it is the third least populous district of Chhattisgarh (out of 18), after Narayanpur and Bijapur.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dantewada district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.