Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Assam
- Division
- Lower Assam
- Sub districts
- Rangiya
- Headquarters
- Amingaon
- Lok sabha constituencies
- Gauhati , Darrang Udalguri
- Vidhan sabha constituencies
- Boko–Chaygaon , Palasbari , Hajo–Sualkuchi , Rangiya , Kamalpur
- Total
- 3,105 km (1,199 sq mi)
- Density
- 488.7/km (1,266/sq mi)
- Urban
- 142,394
- Literacy
- 70.95%
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30 ( IST )
- Major highways
- National Highway 31 , National Highway 37 , National Highway 127D , National Highway 15
- Average annual precipitation
- 1,400 mm
- Website
- kamrup .assam .gov .in
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Capital
- Guwahati
- Population
- 1517542
- Area
- 6882
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Kamrup Metropolitan district
- Official website
- kamrup.nic.in
- Households
- 311114
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- short name
- KMP
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- topic's main category
- Category:Kamrup district
- Commons category
- Kamrup district
- male population
- 778461
- female population
- 739081
- urban population
- 142394
- rural population
- 1375148
- literate population
- 995319
- illiterate population
- 522223
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Encyclopedic overview
Kamrup district (Pron: ˈkæmˌrəp or ˈkæmˌru:p), is an administrative district in the state of Assam in India formed by dividing the old Kamrup district into two in the year 2003; other being Kamrup Metropolitan district, named after the region it constitutes. This district, along with Nalbari, Barpeta, Kamrup Metropolitan, Bajali and Baksa districts has been created from the Undivided Kamrup district. Rangiya is the Sub-District of Kamrup. The present Kamrup district has its headquarters at Amingaon.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kamrup district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.