Vellore district
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Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Tamil Nadu
- Region
- Vellore
- Headquarters
- Vellore
- Talukas
- Vellore , Anaicut , Katpadi , Gudiyatham , Pernambut , K.V Kuppam
- Collector district magistrate
- V.R. Subbu laxmi IAS
- Superintendent of police
- A.Myilvaganan [I.P.S]
- District forest officer
- Ashok IFS
- Total
- 2,030.11 km (783.83 sq mi)
- Density
- 795.150/km (2,059.43/sq mi)
- Official
- Tamil
- Time zone
- UTC+5:30 ( IST )
- District telephone codes
- 0416,04171
- Vehicle registration
- TN 23
- Coastline
- 0 kilometres (0 mi)
- Largest city
- Vellore
- Sex ratio
- M-50.06%/F-49.94% ♂ / ♀
- Literacy
- 79.65%
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Tamil Nadu
- Capital
- Vellore
- Population
- 3936331
- Area
- 6077
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Chittoor district
- Official website
- www.vellore.tn.nic.in/Default.htm
- Image
- Vellorefort by vinu.png
- Households
- 929281
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- Commons category
- Vellore district
- topic's main category
- Category:Vellore district
- inception
- 1989-00-00
- male population
- 1961688
- female population
- 1974643
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Vellore district
- urban population
- 1701987
- rural population
- 2234344
- literate population
- 2773928
- illiterate population
- 1162403
- short name
- VEL
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Encyclopedic overview
Vellore district ( Tamil: [ʋeːluːɾ]) is one of the 38 districts in the Tamil Nadu state of India. It is one of the eleven districts that form the north region of Tamil Nadu. Vellore city is the headquarters of this district. As of 2011, the district had a population of 1,614,242 with a sex ratio of 1,007 females for every 1,000 males. In 2017 Vellore district ranked eleventh in list of districts in Tamil Nadu by Human Development Index.
The Government of India recently included Vellore city in its prestigious smart city project, along with 26 other cities.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vellore district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.