Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Karnataka
- Headquarters
- Tumakuru
- Talukas
- Tumakuru , Sira , Gubbi , Tipaturu , Turuvekere , Kunigal , Madhugiri , Pavagada , Koratagere , Chikkanayakanahalli .
- Deputy commissioner and district magistr
- Subha Kalyan, I.A.S
- District in charge minister
- G. Parameshwara ( INC )
- President zilla panchayat
- Latha Ravikumar ( JDS )
- Superintendent of police
- Ashok K V, I.P.S
- Total
- 10,597 km (4,092 sq mi)
- Rank
- 150 in India
- Density
- 252.81/km (654.76/sq mi)
- Official
- Kannada
- Time zone
- UTC+5:30 ( IST )
- Pin
- 572xxx
- Vehicle registration
- Tumakuru KA 06 Tipaturu KA 44 Madhugiri KA 64
- Website
- tumkur .nic .in
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Bangalore division
- Continent
- Asia
- Capital
- Tumkur
- Official language
- Kannada
- Population
- 2678980
- Area
- 10597
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Anantapuramu district
- Official website
- www.tumkur.nic.in
- Image
- Yoga Narasimha Temple Devarayanadurga.JPG
- Households
- 640081
- Dialing code
- 0816
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- category of associated people
- Category:People from Tumakuru district
- Commons category
- Tumkur district
- topic's main category
- Category:Tumakuru district
- postal code
- 572101
- male population
- 1350594
- female population
- 1328386
- urban population
- 599078
- rural population
- 2079902
- literate population
- 1813391
- illiterate population
- 865589
- short name
- TMK
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Encyclopedic overview
Tumakuru district is an administrative district in the state of Karnataka in India. It is the second largest district in Karnataka by land area with an area of 10,598 km, and fourth largest by Population. It is a one-and-a-half-hour drive from Bengaluru, the state capital. The district is known for the production of coconuts and is also called as 'Kalpataru Nadu'. It is the only discontiguous district in Karnataka (Pavagada Taluk has no geographical continuity with the rest of the district).
As of census of 2011, the district has a population of 2,678,980, with a population density of 253 people /km, the district has the literary rate of 75.14% and a sex ratio of 984 women/ 1000 men. Tumakuru district is surrounded by Chikkaballapura district and Bengaluru Rural in East, Ramanagara district in South-East, Mandya and Hassan districts in South-West, Chikmagalur district in west, Chitradurga district in north-west and Sri Sathya Sai district and Anantapur district of Andhra Pradesh in North.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tumkur district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.