Chamarajanagar district
The district Chamarajanagar ( Kannada: ಚಾಮರಾಜನಗರ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ, also: Chamarajanagara, Chamrajnagar ) is a district of the Indian state of Karnataka. Administrative center is the eponymous town of Chamarajanagar.
Geography
The district Chamarajanagar district of Karnataka and is the most southerly located on the border with the states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Neighboring districts are Mysore, Mandya and Ramanagara (all Karnataka state ) in the north, Krishnagiri, Dharmapuri, Erode and Nilgiris (all Tamil Nadu ) in the east and south and Wayanad ( Kerala ) on the west.
The district Chamarajanagar covers an area of 5,105 square kilometers at the foot of the Nilgiri mountains in the southern part of the Deccan Plateau. Through the area of the district to pull the slopes of the mountains Biligirirangan (BR Hills ) and the Malai - Mahadeshwara Hills (MM Hills ), reach heights of up to 1,800 meters. The district area is forested pretty tight. To Chamarajanagar district is one of the Bandipur National Park. In the northeast of the Kaveri River forms the border of the district. At this section of the Kaveri are the Shivanasamudra and the Hogenakal cases.
The district is divided into four Chamarajanagar Chamarajanagar taluks, Gundlupet, Kollegal and Yelandur.
History
Prior to Indian independence, the western part of present-day district Chamarajanagar belonged to the princely state of Mysore, the eastern to the town of Kollegal was part of the district of Coimbatore the British province of Madras. In 1949, the previously nominally independent state in the Indian Union Mysore joined. In 1956 the boundaries of the Indian states were neugeordet by the States Reorganisation Act according to linguistic criteria, the entire territory of present-day district came to the established pursuant to the linguistic boundaries of the Kannada State of Mysore, which was renamed in 1973 in Karnataka. In 1997, the district Chamarajanagar was dissolved as a separate district from the district of Mysore.
Population
According to the 2011 census, the district Chamarajanagar has 1,020,962 inhabitants. He is measured by the population of the third smallest district of Karnataka. The population growth is low: Compared to the last 2001 census, the population was only 5.8 percent, significantly slower than in the middle of the state grew ( 15.7 percent). The population density is 200 inhabitants per square kilometer, well below the average of Karnataka (319 inhabitants per square kilometer). The literacy rate is 61.1 percent among the lowest of all the districts of Karnataka and is well below the average for the state ( 76.1 percent).
The population of the district according to the 2001 census, Hindus represent 89.4 percent, a large majority. Muslims ( 4.1 per cent ), Buddhists ( 3.5 per cent ) and Christians ( 2.2 percent ) are smaller minorities. The Buddhists are mainly the descendants of Tibetan refugees who were settled in the 1950s and 1960s here. The census classified 11.0 percent of the district population as members of the tribal population ( Adivasis ).