Kushinagar district
The district Kushinagar (Hindi: कुशीनगर जिला ) is a district of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Bears his name, the district according to the Buddhist pilgrimage site Kushinagar, the place of death of the Buddha. Administrative center and largest city of the district of Kushinagar is Padrauna.
Geography
The district Kushinagar is located in northeastern Uttar Pradesh on the border with the state of Bihar and not far from the border with Nepal. Neighboring districts are in the south Deoria, Gorakhpur in the southwest, Maharajganj in the west ( all Uttar Pradesh ) and Bihar Pashchim Champaran and Gopalganj in the east to the southeast.
The district covers an area of 2,905 square kilometers and is part of the Gangetic plain. The terrain is completely flat, with no notable features. In the east the district area is from the Gandak, is a tributary of the Ganges, affected.
The district Kushinagar belongs to Gorakhpur Division. It is divided into four Tehsils Padrauna, Hata, Kasya and Tamkuhi Raj.
History
As an independent district consists Kushinagar since 1994. Previously, the area to the district Deoria had heard.
Population
According to the 2011 census, the district Kushinagar has 3,564,544 inhabitants. Between 2001 and 2011 the population grew by 23 percent. The population density is 1,227 inhabitants per square kilometer even higher than the already high average Uttar Pradesh ( 829 inhabitants per square kilometer). Here, the district is very rural: The degree of urbanization is one with less than five percent of the lowest Uttar Pradesh. The literacy rate is 65 percent below the average for the state (68 percent).
The population of the district Kushinagar make Hindus according to the 2001 census, with 83 per cent majority. There is also a Muslim minority of 17 percent. Buddhists play despite the historical importance Kushinagars for Buddhism with a population share of 0.2 percent, as elsewhere in northern India demographically hardly matters.
Attractions
The eponymous town of Kushinagar is an important Buddhist shrine. Here died Siddhartha Gautama, the historical Buddha, and went into the Parinirvana after a Buddhist idea. In addition to Buddha's birthplace Lumbini, Bodhgaya, where he attained enlightenment, and Sarnath, where he preached his first Pregigt, Kushinagar is one of the four main pilgrimage sites of Buddhism and is visited by many Buddhist pilgrims mainly from Southeast and East Asia. In Kushinagar, there are a going back to the 5th century stupa, the ruins of four monasteries and a number of modern temples.