Uttara Kannada district
Uttara Kannada ( Kannada: . ಉತ್ತರ ಕನ್ನಡ Uttara Kannada [ ut ː ː əra kʌn əɖa ], " Nordkannada "; formerly engl North Canara or North Kanara ) is a district of the Indian state of Karnataka. Administrative center is the city of Karwar.
Geography
The district Uttara Kannada is located in the coastal region in the northwest of Karnataka on the border of the neighboring Federal state of Goa. It is bordered by the districts of Udupi in the south, Shimoga in the southeast, Haveri and Dharwad in the east, Belgaum in the north ( all Karnataka ) and South Goa ( Goa) to the northwest. To the west lies the coast of the Arabian Sea.
With an area of 10,263 square kilometers Uttara Kannada is one of the largest districts of Karnataka. The district area has a share in two different landscape areas: the west is the narrow coastal strip on the Konkanküste, to the east lie the Western Ghats that delimit the coastal region against the Deccan Plateau. The majority of Uttara Canada consists of mountain countries that are covered with thick woods: 80 percent of the district area is forested.
The district Uttara Kannada is divided into eleven taluks Bhatkal, Honavar, Siddapura, Kumta, Sirsi, Ankola, Karwar, Yellapur, Mundgod, Supa and Haliyal.
History
The current district Uttara Kannada goes back to the District Kanara, which the British had in 1799 set up after they had the area in the Fourth Mysore War Tipu Sultan, the ruler of Mysore, conquered and incorporated as part of the province of Madras in British India. The district Kanara encompassed the entire coastal region of Karnataka, the area around Kasaragod and the island group of the amine divas. The term Kanara or Kannada has the same origin as the name of the State of Karnataka and Kannada language spoken there. It means " black land" and refers originally to the black soil of the Deccan highlands, but was then transferred to the coastal plain in the west.
1862, the district Kanara was split into the districts of North Kanara ( Uttara Kannada today ) and South Kanara ( Dakshina Kannada today ). North Kanara moved here from the province of Madras in the Province of Bombay. After India became independent in 1947, its states were reorganized in 1956 by the States Reorganisation Act by language barriers. Uttara Kannada was thereby becoming part of the kannadasprachigen State of Mysore (1973 renamed Karnataka ).
Population
According to the Indian census of 2011, the district Uttara Kannada has 1,436,847 inhabitants. Between 2001 and 2011 the population grew by 6.2 percent and significantly lower than in the central Karnataka ( 15.7 per cent). Because of its mountainous terrain in much of Uttara Kannada district is sparsely populated: With 140 inhabitants per square kilometer, the population density is the second lowest of all the districts of Karnataka and is well below the average of the state (319 inhabitants per square kilometer). Only 7.4 percent of the population of the district live in cities. The degree of urbanization is significantly lower than the mean of Karnataka ( 38.6 per cent). The literacy rate is 84.0 percent, however, well above the average of the state ( 76.1 percent).
The population of the district of Uttara Kannada ask Hindus according to the 2001 census, 83.6 percent majority. There are also minorities of Muslims ( 11.9 per cent ) and Christians (3.3 percent ). In Mundgod there is a colony of Tibetan refugees who were settled here in the 1960s. Besides Kannada, the main language of Karnataka, Uttara Kannada is also in Konkani, the language of the northern neighboring state of Goa spoken. Traditionally considered the Gangavalli River as the boundary between the Konkani and Kannada - speaking region. Some Konkani activists call for a connection of the parts of the district of Uttara Kannada konkanisprachigen to Goa. Under the Muslim population of the district is also, as in most parts of Karnataka and the Urdu widespread. In Taluk Bhatkala Uttara Kannada district of the Urdu has the status of a coordinate official language due to the high proportion of the population of its speakers.
Attractions
Is the town of Gokarna, which is important both as a place of pilgrimage as well as a tourist destination on the coast of the district of Uttara Kannada. In Gokarna is an important Hindu temple is dedicated to Lord Shiva in his form as Mahabaleshwara. The beaches Gokarnas also attract many backpackers to, for Gokarna an alternative to the more northern Goa.
Other attractions in the district of Uttara Kannada are the place Banavasi, the former capital of the Kadamba Dynasty, with the Madhukeshwara -Temple from the 9th century and Murudeshwara, the high with a modern temple, including 72-meter gopuram ( gate-tower ) and a 37 -meter-high Shiva statue can boast.