Subarnapur district
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district of Odisha, India
Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Odisha
- Region
- Western Odisha
- Established
- 1 April 1993 ; 33 years ago ( 1993-04-01 )
- Headquarters
- Subarnapur
- Collector district magistrate
- Dr Nruparaj Sahu
- Superintendent of police
- Amaresh Panda, OPS
- Total
- 2,337 km (902 sq mi)
- Density
- 261.1/km (676.2/sq mi)
- Official
- Odia , English
- Local
- Sambalpuri
- Time zone
- UTC+5:30 ( IST )
- Pin
- 767 xxx
- Telephone code
- +91 665x
- Vehicle registration
- OD 31
- Nearest city
- Balangir
- Sex ratio
- 1000:966 ♂ / ♀
- Literacy
- 64.07%
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Capital
- Sonepur
- Population
- 610183
- Area
- 2284.4
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Bargarh district
- Headquarters
- Sonepur
- Official website
- subarnapur.nic.in
- Households
- 151136
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- Commons category
- Subarnapur district
- topic's main category
- Category:Subarnapur district
- inception
- 1993-00-00
- male population
- 311312
- female population
- 298871
- urban population
- 49941
- rural population
- 560242
- literate population
- 398421
- illiterate population
- 211762
- short name
- SNE
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Encyclopedic overview
Subarnapur district, also called Sonepur district, is an administrative district in Odisha state in eastern India. The city of Sonepur is the district headquarters. Sonepur is known as the Mandiramalini town (city of temples) of Odisha with more than hundred temples. The people of the Sonepur region are referred to as Sonepuria. From ancient times, Sonepur is considered as a holy city.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Subarnapur district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.