Ernakulam district
The district is a district of Ernakulam in the southern Indian state of Kerala. It takes its name from Ernakulam, the sister city of Kochi ( Cochin ). Seat of the district administration is Kakkanad, a suburb of Kochi.
Geography
The district is located in Ernakulam Zentralkerala and has an area of 2,950 square kilometers. It is bordered to the north by Thrissur District, on the east by the Idukki District, on the south by the districts of Kottayam and Alappuzha and in the west to the Arabian Sea. The district of Ernakulam is divided into seven taluks Paravur, Aluva, Kothamangalam, Kochi, Kanayannur, Kunnathunad and Muvattupuzha.
The area of the district of Ernakulam comprises the hinterland of the Malabar Coast. It is crossed by an extensive network of waterways of lakes, rivers and canals, called the backwaters. The backwaters also includes the Vembanad Lake, which drains into the sea at Kochin. In the east the district area rises to the Western Ghats down to to a height of 300 meters.
Largest city of the district is Kochi ( Cochin ), administratively belongs also the namesake for the District of Ernakulam to that. The historic Kochi extends over several headlands and islands between the Vembanad Lake and the Arabian Sea, while its modern sister city of Ernakulam is located on the opposite mainland side. Together with Ernakulam Kochi has about 600,000 inhabitants, making it to the capital Thiruvananthapuram is the second largest city in Kerala. The metropolitan area is, however, Kochi with 1.5 million inhabitants, the largest agglomeration in the state. The seat of the district administration, the location Kakkanad, located outside the city limits east of Kochi / Ernakulam.
History
Kochi ( Cochin ) is since the 14th century, the most important port of the Malabar Coast and in 1405 the capital of the Kingdom of Cochin. Through the establishment of a trading post by the Portuguese in 1502, Kochi was the first base for the European colonial powers in India. The State of Cochin became a Portuguese, from 1663 then a Dutch protectorate. End of the 18th century, the area eventually came under British influence. During the time of British India, the Kingdom of Cochin was a nominally independent princely state under British suzerainty.
From today's district area of coastline in the west to Cochin, the hinterland in the east to Travancore, a princely state was second. After Indian independence, Travancore and Cochin Travancore -Cochin combined with the Federation and completed in 1949 following the Indian Union. After 1956, the state of Kerala along the boundaries of the Malayalam language of Travancore -Cochin and Malabar district of the Madras State was founded, in 1958 the district of Ernakulam was established. 1972, a part of the district of Ernakulam was added to the newly formed Idukki District.
Population
The district of Ernakulam is densely populated. According to the Indian census of 2011, he has 3.27986 million inhabitants. In terms of population it is the third largest district of Kerala. The population density is 1,069 inhabitants per square kilometer even higher than the already high average in the state. The literacy rate is 95.7 %, slightly above the mean of Kerala and far above the all-India average.
The main religions in the district of Ernakulam are Hinduism and Christianity. According to the 2001 census, 46.5 % of the inhabitants of the district Hindus, 38.8 % Christian. In absolute numbers beheminatet the district of Ernakulam with 1.2 million Christians the largest Christian population of all Indian districts. A minority, Muslims constitute 14.5 % of the population; A religious peculiarity of the district is a long-established small Jewish community, known as Cochin Jews, but they are now almost all emigrated to Israel.