Dhubri district
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Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Assam
- Division
- Lower Assam
- Headquarters
- Dhubri
- District commissioner
- Dibakar Nath, IAS
- Superintendent of police
- Navin Singh, APS
- Lok sabha constituencies
- Dhubri (shared with South Salmara-Mankachar District , Goalpara district )
- Vidhan sabha constituencies
- Dhubri , Gauripur , Golakganj , Bilasipara West , Bilasipara East
- Total
- 1,608 km (621 sq mi)
- Density
- 867.0/km (2,246/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30 ( IST )
- Iso 3166 code
- IN-AS-DB
- Website
- https://dhubri.assam.gov.in/
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Dhubri district (Pron:ˈdʊbri) is an administrative district in the Indian state of Assam. Included within the Kamatapur Autonomous Council, the district headquarters are located at Dhubri city which is situated ~290 km from Guwahati. This was also the headquarters of erstwhile undivided Goalpara district which was created in 1876 by the British government. In 1983, Goalpara district was divided into four districts and Dhubri is one among those. Dhubri district is one among the many Muslim-majority districts of Assam. In 2016, Dhubri was divided again to form South Salmara-Mankachar District.
As of 2011 it is the second most populous district of Assam (out of 27), after Nagaon.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dhubri district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.