Kollam district
The Kollam District ( Malayalam: കൊല്ലം ജില്ല Kollam Jilla; formerly Quilon ) is a district in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Council is based in the eponymous city of Kollam.
Geography
The Kollam District is the district of zweitsüdlichste located on the southwest coast of Malabar Indian state of Kerala. It has an area of 2,491 square kilometers. The Kollam District is bordered on the west by the Arabian Sea, to the north by the districts of Alappuzha and Pathanamthitta, on the east by the neighboring federal state of Tamil Nadu ( Tirunelveli district ) and on the south by the Thiruvananthapuram District.
As is typical of Kerala, the landscape is in Kollam District of the fertile coastal plain in the west to the densely forested mountains of the Western Ghats on, form the natural border with Tamil Nadu in the east. The district capital Kollam close to the coast on the shores of Ashtamudi Lake. This is by rivers and canals with the backwaters, a vast network of waterways inland from the coast of Kerala.
The Kollam District is divided into taluks Karunagapally, Kunnathur, Kollam, Kottarakkara and Pathanapuram.
History
The district capital, Kollam is a historic port city, where anliefen in antiquity and the Middle Ages trading ships from Rome and China. During the British colonial period, the area of present-day district of princely state of Travancore belonged. This united after Indian independence with Cochin Travancore -Cochin and the Federation took place in 1949 following the Indian Union. In 1956, the Kollam District one of the districts of the newly founded through the merger of Travancore -Cochin and Malabar district of the State of Madras state of Kerala. A year later the Alappuzha District was split off from the Kollam District. 1982 again was the district of Pathanamthitta from parts of the districts Kollam, Alappuzha and Idukki.
Population
According to the Indian census of 2011, the Kollam District has 2,629,703 inhabitants. The population density is 1,056 inhabitants per square kilometer with over the already high average of Kerala. The literacy ratio, which was 93.8 % about the mean of Kerala, but is well above the all-India average of 74.0 %.
The population of the district of Kollam place after the 2001 census, Hindus 65.2 % majority. Their share is higher than in most other areas of denominational strongly mixed state of Kerala. To profess Islam in Kollam District 18.3%, Christianity 16.4 % of the population.