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Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Bihar
- Division
- Magadh
- Headquarters
- Gaya
- District magistrate
- Shri Shashank Shubhankar ( IAS )
- Lok sabha constituencies
- Gaya
- Mp saansad
- Shri Jitan Ram Manjhi ( HAM )
- Mla vidhayak gaya town
- (Shri)Dr. Prem Kumar ( BJP )
- Total
- 4,976 km (1,921 sq mi)
- Rank
- 2nd in Bihar
- Density
- 876.1/km (2,269/sq mi)
- Literacy
- 63.67%
- Sex ratio
- 932♀/1000♂
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30 ( IST )
- Major highways
- NH 2 , NH 82 , NH 83
- Website
- gaya .nic .in
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Magadh division
- Capital
- Gaya
- Population
- 4391418
- Area
- 4976
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Koderma district
- Official website
- gaya.bih.nic.in
- Households
- 688425
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- Commons category
- Gaya district
- topic's main category
- Category:Gaya district
- male population
- 2266566
- female population
- 2124852
- urban population
- 581601
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- rural population
- 3809817
- literate population
- 2297613
- illiterate population
- 2093805
- short name
- GAY
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Encyclopedic overview
Gaya district is one of the thirty-eight districts of the Indian state of Bihar. It was officially established on 3 October 1865. The district has a common boundary with the state of Jharkhand to the south. Gaya city is both the district headquarters and the second-largest city in Bihar.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gaya district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.