Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Bihar
- Division
- Saran
- Headquarters
- Siwan, Bihar
- Collector district magistrate
- Vivek Ranjan Maitrey, ( IAS )
- Superintendent of police
- Purav Jha, ( IPS )
- Lok sabha constituencies
- Siwan Maharajganj
- Vidhan sabha constituencies
- Siwan Ziradei Darauli Raghunathpur Daraunda Barharia Goriakothi Maharajganj
- Total
- 2,219 km (857 sq mi)
- Rank
- 24th in the state of Bihar
- Density
- 1,501/km (3,890/sq mi)
- Literacy
- 87.1% (2024)
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30 ( IST )
- Pin
- 841xxx (Siwan)
- Major highways
- NH 531
- Website
- siwan .nic .in
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Saran division
- Capital
- Siwan
- Population
- 3330464
- Area
- 2219
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Deoria district
- Official website
- siwan.bih.nic.in
- Households
- 535661
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- Category:Siwan district
- Commons category
- Siwan district
- male population
- 1675090
- female population
- 1655374
- urban population
- 182913
- rural population
- 3147551
- literate population
- 1930175
- illiterate population
- 1400289
- short name
- SWN
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Encyclopedic overview
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Siwan district is one of the districts of Bihar state, India. Siwan town is the administrative headquarters of this district. Siwan district is a part of Saran division since 1972. The district was previously also known as Aliganj Siwan after the name of Raja Ali Bux Khan. Siwan has historical and mythological importance attached to it. There is ancient ashram of sage Dronacharya in the Don village. It is believed that Dronacharya had spent his time here. The Member of Parliament from Siwan is Vijaylakshmi Devi.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Siwan district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.