Tumkur district
The district Tumkur ( Kannada: ತುಮಕೂರು ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ ) is a district of the Indian state of Karnataka. Administrative center is the eponymous town of Tumkur ( Tumakuru ).
Geography
The district Tumkur located in the southeast of Karnataka. Neighboring districts are Chikballapur in the East, Bangalore Rural and Ramanagara in the southeast, in the south Mandya, Hassan to the southwest, Chitradurga in the northwest and Anantapur in the Northeast. The latter already belongs to the neighboring federal state of Andhra Pradesh.
The district Tumkur is divided into the ten taluks Chiknayakanhalli, Gubbi, Koratagere, Kunigal, Madhugiri, Pavagada, Sira, Tiptūr, Tumkur and Turuvekere. The boundaries of the district is quite complex: The northernmost Taluk Pavagada is separated by a to Andhra Pradesh related tip from the rest of the district area and extends his hand again into the area of Andhra Pradesh.
With an area of 10,599 square kilometers, the district Tumkur is the third largest district of Karnataka. The area belongs to the southern part of the Deccan Plateau and forms a plateau, which has in the south average elevation of 800 meters above sea level and flattens towards the north. In a north-south direction are found throughout the district area Devarayanadurga the mountains that reach heights of around 1,200 meters. This mountain range marks the watershed between the catchment areas of the rivers Krishna and Kaveri.
History
During the British colonial times Tumkur of Kolar was part of the princely state of Mysore. After Indian independence Mysore took place in 1949 following the Indian Union. The reorganization of the Indian states of Tumkur district in 1956 to a portion of the jobs created by the language barriers of the Kannada State of Mysore (1973 renamed Karnataka ).
Population
According to the Indian census of 2011, the district Tumkur has 2,681,449 inhabitants. The population growth is low: Between 2001 and 2011 the population grew only by 3.7 percent, significantly lower than in the central Karnataka ( 15.7 per cent). The population density is lower with 253 inhabitants per square kilometer, the average of the state (319 inhabitants per square kilometer). 22.5 percent of the residents of District Tumkur live in cities. The degree of urbanization is thus lower than the average of Karnataka ( 38.6 per cent). The literacy rate is 74.3 percent close to the average for the state ( 76.1 percent).
The population of the district make Hindus according to the 2001 census 90.9 percent, a large majority. For Islam is a minority committed by 8.2 percent. The 2001 census classified 7.5 percent of the district population as members of the tribal population (see Adivasi ). These are almost exclusively members of the Naikda.
Besides Kannada, the main language of Karnataka, and Urdu, which is spoken as in all of Karnataka by most Muslims, is in the district of Tumkur also Telugu, the language of the neighboring state of Andhra Pradesh spread.