User talk:Rajasekhar1961/Districts in India

A district (zilā) is an administrative division of an Indian state or territory. In some cases districts are further subdivided into sub-divisions, and in others directly into tehsils or talukas. there are a total of 676 districts, up from the 640 in the 2011 Census of India and the 593 recorded in the 2001 Census of India.

District officials include: Each of these officials is aided by officers from the appropriate branch of the state government.
 * Deputy Commissioner or District Magistrate or District Collector, an officer of the Indian Administrative Service, in charge of administration and revenue collection
 * Superintendent of Police or Deputy Commissioner of Police, an officer belonging to the Indian Police Service, responsible for maintaining law and order
 * Deputy Conservator of Forests, an officer belonging to the Indian Forest Service, entrusted with the management of the forests, environment and wildlife of the district

Most districts have a distinct headquarters; Mumbai City district (MC) in Maharashtra (MH) is an example which, despite forming a district, does not have a clear headquarters, though it does have a District Collector.

Mahe of Puducherry is the smallest (9 km2) district of India by area while Kutch of Gujarat is the largest (45,652 km2) district of India by area.

Naming
The majority of districts are named after their administrative center. Some are referred to by two names, a traditional one and one that uses the name of the town that is the headquarters. Since most of the districts are named after a town, the word "district" is appended to distinguish between the town and the district. Official websites very often use District with a capital D in this context.

Ambiguous names
The names of the 683 districts are mostly unique. There are some exceptions:
 * Within India Seven names are ambiguous, representing Fourteen districts:


 * Aurangabad district, Bihar & Aurangabad district, Maharashtra
 * Bijapur district, Chhattisgarh & Bijapur district, Karnataka
 * Bilaspur district, Chhattisgarh & Bilaspur district, Himachal Pradesh
 * Hamirpur district, Himachal Pradesh & Hamirpur district, Uttar Pradesh
 * Pratapgarh district, Rajasthan & Pratapgarh district, Uttar Pradesh
 * Balrampur district, Chhattisgarh & Balrampur district, Uttar Pradesh.


 * Seven districts share names with districts in other countries in South Asia:
 * Bhojpur district, Bihar shares a name with Bhojpur District, Nepal
 * Daman district, India shares a name with Daman District, Afghanistan
 * Ghaziabad District, Uttar Pradesh shares a name with Ghaziabad District, Afghanistan
 * Gopalganj district, Bihar shares a name with Gopalganj District, Bangladesh
 * Hyderabad district, Telangana shares a name with Hyderabad District, Pakistan
 * Lalitpur district, Uttar Pradesh shares a name with Lalitpur District, Nepal
 * Poonch district, Jammu and Kashmir, shares a name with Poonch District, Pakistan (the two were, prior to Partition, one district – which got split by the Line of Control, so since then the two parts have been administered separately)

The following tables list the population details of various states. The columns include the hierarchical administrative subdivision codes, the district name, district headquarters, 2011 census population, area in square kilometres, and the population density per square kilometre.
 * One outside South Asia:
 * Mansa district, Punjab, with Mansa District, Zambia

City districts

 * Bangalore Urban district
 * Kolkata district
 * Central Delhi
 * Chennai district
 * Hyderabad district
 * Kamrup Metropolitan district
 * Mumbai City district
 * Raipur City district