Ghazipur district
The district Ghazipur (Hindi: ग़ाज़ीपुर जिला ) is a district of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Administrative center is the eponymous town of Ghazipur.
Geography
The district Ghazipur is located in eastern Uttar Pradesh on the border of the neighboring Federal State of Bihar. The district has an area of 3,377 square kilometers and is the Ganges, India 's largest river, flows through. Neighboring Chandauli districts are in the south, Varanasi in the southwest, Jaunpur in the West, Azamgarh in the northwest, in the north Mau, Ballia in the Northeast (all Uttar Pradesh ) and Bihar Buxar and Kaimur in the southeast in the south.
The district area belongs to the flat and intensively farmed Gangetic Plain and lies mostly north, south to a smaller part of the corridor. The left tributary Gomti forms the boundary for district Varanasi and ends at Saidpur in the Ganges. To the east of the district lies the mouth of the right tributary Nasa karma, which marks the border with Bihar in the Ganges.
The district belongs to Ghazipur Division Varanasi. It is divided into five Tehsils Ghazipur, Saidpur, Muhammadabad, Zamania and Jakhnia.
History
The district Ghazipur was established by the British after they had brought the region under their rule in 1775. During the British reign, the district part of the ceded and Conquered Provinces was ( 1836 North Western Provinces ), which were in 1902 a part of the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh. After the Indian independence in 1947 showed the state of Uttar Pradesh from the United Provinces.
Population
According to the Indian census of 2011, the district Ghazipur has 3,620,268 inhabitants. Between 2001 and 2011, the population (20 percent ) grew by 19 percent, about the same speed as in the Middle Uttar Pradesh. The population density is 1,072 inhabitants per square kilometer above the already high average of the state ( 829 inhabitants per square kilometer). (22 Uttar Pradesh is the average percent ) Less than eight percent of the population live in cities: Here, the district is very rural. The literacy rate is 72 percent higher than the average Uttar Pradesh (68 percent) and almost Denau corresponds to the all-India average ( 73 percent).
The population of the district according to the 2001 census Hindus represent almost 90 percent of the vast majority. There is also a Muslim minority of 10 percent.