Pratapgarh district, Uttar Pradesh
The district Pratapgarh (Hindi: प्रतापगढ़ जिला; earlier Partabgarh ) is a district of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Administrative center is Bela ( Bela Pratapgarh ), bears his name the district after the city of Pratapgarh.
Geography
The district Pratapgarh is located in the southeastern region of Awadh ( Oudh ) in Central Uttar Pradesh and is part of Allahabad Division. In the southwest of the Ganges, the largest power of India, the district limited, to the northeast it is short tangent from the river Gomti. The district area is drained by the Sai River, a tributary of the Gomti and belongs to the flat and intensively farmed Gangetic Plain. The area of the district is 3,717 square kilometers.
Neighboring districts are in the south of Allahabad, Kaushambi in the southwest, Raebareli in the northwest, in the north Amethi, Sultanpur and Jaunpur in the northeast to the east.
The district Pratapgarh is divided into five Tehsils Lalganj, Kunda, Pratapgarh, Patti and Raniganj.
History
The district Pratapgarh ( Partabgarh ) was created in 1858 by the British after they had as a result of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 the princely state of Oudh, to which the region had heard before, annexed. 1902 Oudh was, from which it was a part of the United Provinces after the Indian independence in 1947 the state of Uttar Pradesh.
Population
According to the 2011 census, the district Pratapgarh has 3,209,141 inhabitants. Between 2001 and 2011 the population grew by 16 percent, slower than the average Uttar Pradesh ( 20 percent). The population density is 863 inhabitants per square kilometer, still slightly above the already high average of the state ( 829 inhabitants per square kilometer). Here, the district is very rural: Just a little over five percent of the population lives in cities. The degree of urbanization is thus just a quarter of the average of Uttar Pradesh ( 22 percent). The literacy rate is 70 percent above the average for the state (68 percent).
The population of the district according to the 2001 census, Hindus represent 86 per cent majority. There is also a Muslim minority of 14 percent.