Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Haryana
- Division
- Hisar
- Headquarters
- Hisar (city)
- Tehsils
- Adampur , Agroha , Barwala , Hisar , Balsamand , Bass , Narnaund and Uklanamandi
- Deputy commissioner
- Uttam Singh, IAS
- Total
- 3,983 km (1,538 sq mi)
- Density
- 438/km (1,130/sq mi)
- Literacy
- 64.83%
- Official
- Hindi
- Additional official
- English Punjabi
- Regional
- Haryanvi
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30 ( IST )
- Major highways
- NH-9 (formerly NH-10) and NH-52 (formerly NH-65)
- Lok sabha constituencies
- Hisar
- Website
- hisar .nic .in
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Capital
- Hisar
- Population
- 1743931
- Area
- 3983
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Hanumangarh district
- Official website
- hisar.nic.in
- Households
- 335608
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- category for people born here
- Category:People from Hisar district
- described by source
- The Nuttall Encyclopædia
- topic's main category
- Category:Hisar district
- Commons category
- Hisar district
- male population
- 931562
- female population
- 812369
- urban population
- 553488
- rural population
- 1190443
- literate population
- 1114311
- illiterate population
- 629620
- short name
- HSR
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
Hisar district is one of the 22 districts of Haryana, India. Hisar city serves as the district headquarters. Hisar district has four sub-divisions that is, Hisar, Barwala, Hansi and Narnaud, each headed by an SDM. The district is also part of Hisar division. Hisar was founded by Firuz Shah Tughlaq.
The largest district in Haryana until its 1966 reorganisation, some parts of Hisar were transferred to the newly created Jind district. In 1974, the Tehsils of Bhiwani and Loharu were transferred to Bhiwani district. Hisar was further bifurcated when Sirsa district was formed. Fatehabad district and Hansi district were later created as well.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hisar district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.