Template:India Districts East Champaran is an administrative district in the state of Bihar in India. The district headquarters are located at Motihari.
The district occupies an area of 3969 km2 and has a population of 3,933,636 (as of 2001[update]). East Champaran is a part of Tirhut Division [1] (Tirhut). It is currently a part of the Red Corridor.[2]
As of 2011, it is the second most populous district of Bihar (out of 39), after Patna.[3]
Geography
East Champaran district occupies an area of 3,968 square kilometres (1,532 sq mi),[4] comparatively equivalent to Vanuatu's Espiritu Santo.[5] Gandak, Burhi Gandak and Baghmati are important rivers flowing through this region.
Demographics
According to the 2011 census East Champaran district has a population of 5,082,868,[3] roughly equal to the United Arab Emirates[6] or the US state of Colorado.[7] This gives it a ranking of 21st in India (out of a total of 640).[3] The district has a population density of 1,281 inhabitants per square kilometre (3,320/sq mi).[3] Its population growth rate over the decade 2001–2011 was 29.01%.[3] Purbi Champaran has a sex ratio of 901 females for every 1000 males,[3] and a literacy rate of 58.26%.[3]
Sub-divisions
- Motihari Sadar
- Areraj
- Raxual
- Shikarahna
- Pakridayal
- Chakia
- Madhuban
Some Villages:-Sihorwa,Ranigunj,Chakia Paharpur, pipra kothi, Ujjain Lohiyar Manganuaa, Gayghat, Yadavpur etc.
Languages
Languages include Bhojpuri, a tongue in the Bihari language group with almost 40 000 000 speakers, written in both the Devanagari and Kaithi scripts as well as urdu language also Urdu.[8]
See also
- Raxaul
- Motihari
- George Orwell
- Ramesh Chandra Jha
- Districts of Bihar
- KHWAB FOUNDATION khwab foundation,Motihari
- Dekha kothi
- Hathiyahi & Chakardhey
References
- ^ http://tirhut-muzaffarpur.bih.nic.in
- ^ "83 districts under the Security Related Expenditure Scheme". IntelliBriefs. 2009-12-11. Retrieved 2011-09-17.
- ^ a b c d e f g "District Census 2011". Census2011.co.in. 2011. Retrieved 2011-09-30.
- ^ Srivastava, Dayawanti et al. (ed.) (2010). "States and Union Territories: Bihar: Government". India 2010: A Reference Annual (54th ed.). New Delhi, India: Additional Director General, Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting (India), Government of India. pp. 1118–1119. ISBN 978-81-230-1617-7.
{{cite book}}:|last1=has generic name (help) - ^ "Island Directory Tables: Islands by Land Area". United Nations Environment Program. 1998-02-18. Retrieved 2011-10-11.
Espiritu Santo 3,956km2
- ^ US Directorate of Intelligence. "Country Comparison:Population". Retrieved 2011-10-01.
United Arab Emirates 5,148,664
- ^ "2010 Resident Population Data". U. S. Census Bureau. Archived from the original on 2013-10-19. Retrieved 2011-09-30.
Colorado 5,029,196
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ M. Paul Lewis, ed. (2009). "Bhojpuri: A language of India". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (16th ed.). Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Retrieved 2011-09-30.
External links
- East Champaran district website
- one and only software development company of motihari
- Official Website of Tirhut Division
26°39′00″N 84°55′00″E / 26.6500°N 84.9167°E
- ^ http://tirhut-muzaffarpur.bih.nic.in Official Website of Tirhut Division