Haridwar district
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Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Uttarakhand
- Headquarters
- Haridwar
- District collector
- Mayur Dixit IAS
- Total
- 2,360 km (910 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 249.7 m (819 ft)
- Density
- 801/km (2,070/sq mi)
- Demonym
- Haridwari
- Official
- Hindi
- Native
- Khariboli
- Time zone
- UTC+5:30 ( IST )
- Telephone code
- 01334
- Vehicle registration
- UK-08
- Website
- haridwar .nic .in
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Uttar Pradesh
- Capital
- Haridwar
- Population
- 1890422
- Area
- 2360
- Elevation
- 250
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Saharanpur district
- Official website
- haridwar.nic.in
- Image
- Haridwar Ganga 6.JPG
- Households
- 338104
- Dialing code
- +01334
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- Commons category
- Haridwar district
- topic's main category
- Category:Haridwar district
- male population
- 1005295
- female population
- 885127
- urban population
- 693094
- rural population
- 1197328
- literate population
- 1178354
- illiterate population
- 712068
- short name
- HRD
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Sources (2)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Haridwar district ( Hindi: [ɦəɾɪd̪waːɾ] ), also spelled Hardwar, is part of Uttarakhand, India that lies in the Doab region, where people traditionally speak Khariboli. It is headquartered at Haridwar which is also its largest city. The district is ringed by the districts Dehradun in the north and east, Pauri Garhwal in the east and the Uttar Pradesh districts of Muzaffarnagar and Bijnor in the south and Saharanpur in the west.
Haridwar district came into existence on 28 December 1988 as part of Saharanpur Divisional Commissionary, On 24 September 1998 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly passed the 'Uttar Pradesh Reorganisation Bill', 1998', eventually the Parliament also passed the Indian Federal Legislation – 'Uttar Pradesh Reorganisation Act 2000', and thus on 9 November 2000, Haridwar became part of the newly formed Uttarakhand (then Uttaranchal), the 27th state of the Republic of India.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Haridwar district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.