Dakshina Kannada
Dakshina Kannada ( Kannada: . ದಕ್ಷಿಣ ಕನ್ನಡ Kannada Dakṣiṇa [ d̪ʌkʂiɳa kʌn əɖa ː ], " Südkannada "; formerly engl South Canara or South Kanara ) is a district of the Indian state of Karnataka. Administrative center is the city of Mangalore.
Geography
The district Dakshina Kannada is located in the coastal region in the southwest of Karnataka on the border of the neighboring Federal state of Kerala. It is bordered by the districts of Udupi in the north, Chikmagalur in the northeast, Hassan to the east, Kodagu to the southeast (all Karnataka ) and Kasaragod ( Kerala ) in the south. To the west lies the coast of the Arabian Sea. The district Dakshina Kannada has an area of 4,559 square kilometers and is divided into five taluks Mangalore, Bantwal, Belthagandy, Puttur and Sullia.
The majority of Dakshina Kannadas belongs to the narrow coastal plain in the west of Karnataka. The coastal area north of the district capital Mangalore Konkanküste is called, south of Mangalore starts the Malabar Coast. In the fertile coastal plain, the landscape is dominated by rice fields and coconut trees. The main rivers are the Dakshina Kannadas Netravati and Gurupura, both of which originate in the Western Ghats and flow at Mangalore in a lagoon. To the east of the district area the terrain rises steeply to the Western Ghats, the limitations of the Deccan plateau to the coastal plain. The greatest heights reached the mountain range at 1,894 meters high Kudremukh on the border of Chikmagalur district.
Its location on the west coast at the foot of the Western Ghats in Dakshina Kannada, the climate is humid and is strongly influenced by the monsoon. During the summer monsoon, the area caters mainly from June to August -intensity rainfall. Therefore, the total precipitation is several times higher than inland Karnataka: The average annual precipitation in Mangalore is 3290 millimeters, while it is only 900 millimeters in Bangalore.
History
The present district of Dakshina Kannada goes back to the District Kanara, which the British had in 1799 set up after they had the area in the Fourth Mysore War Tipu Sultan, the ruler of Mysore, conquered and incorporated as part of the province of Madras in British India. The district Kanara encompassed the entire coastal region of Karnataka, the area around Kasaragod and the island group of the amine divas. The term Kanara or Kannada has the same origin as the name of the State of Karnataka and Kannada language spoken there. It means " black land" and refers originally to the black soil of the Deccan highlands, but was then transferred to the coastal plain in the west.
1862, the district was in the Kanara districts South Kanara ( Dakshina Kannada today ) and North Kanara ( Uttara Kannada today ) divided. South Canara remained at Madras, while North Kanara moved to the province of Bombay. After India became independent in 1947, its states were reorganized in 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by language barriers. Dakshina Kannada was thereby becoming part of the kannadasprachigen State of Mysore (1973 renamed Karnataka ). The southern part of the district around the town of Kasaragod was but the state of Kerala slammed because of its predominantly Malayalam -speaking population and today forms the Kasaragod District. In addition, the island group of the amine divas came to the Union territory " Laccadive, Minicoy and amine divas ", which was renamed in 1973 in Lakshadweep. In 1997, the district Dakshina Kannada was again divided and formed from the northern part of the district Udupi.
Population
According to the Indian census of 2011 Dakshina Kannada district has 2,083,625 inhabitants. Compared to the last 2001 census, the population was 9.8 percent, slower than the average growth of Karnataka ( 15.7 per cent). The district Dakshina Kannada is more densely populated than the rest of Karnataka: With 457 inhabitants per square kilometers, the population density is significantly higher than the mean value of the state (319 inhabitants per square kilometer) and is named after Bangalore Urban the second highest of all districts of Karnataka. 47.6 percent of the population lives in cities. The degree of urbanization is significantly higher than the average of Karnataka ( 38.6 per cent). Dakshina Kannada has the highest literacy rate of the state: With 88.6 per cent, it is far above the average of Karnataka ( 76.1 per cent).
In religious terms Dakshina Kannada is inhomogeneous than the rest of Karnataka, the religious conditions are more similar to those of neighboring Kerala. According to the 2001 census, Hindus represent 68.6 percent of the majority of the district 's population, but their share is significantly lower than the average of Karnataka. In addition, there are larger minorities of Muslims ( 22.1 per cent ) and Christians (8.7 percent). Thus, Dakshina Kannada has both the highest Muslim and Christian population among the districts of Karnataka.
Dakshina Kannada is a multilingual Area: As an administrative language is Kannada, the main language of Karnataka. However, the majority of the population speaks Dakshina Kannadas Tulu as mother tongue. This Dravidian regional language has a total of around 1.7 million speakers and is limited to the area Dakshina Kannadas and parts of the adjoining districts Udupi and Kasaragod. In addition, of the so-called Mangalorer Catholics ( Mangalorean Catholics ), originally migrated from Goa, Konkani spoken. The Muslims use other than in the most part of Karnataka not Urdu but mostly a dialect of Malayalam.