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| Settlement type | District of Rajasthan |
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Bikaner District is a district of the state of Rajasthan in western India. The historic city of Bikaner is the district headquarters. The district is located in Bikaner Division along with the three other districts of Churu, Sri Ganganagar and Hanumangarh.
Geography
The district is bounded by Ganganagar district to the north, Hanumangarh district to the northeast, Churu district to the east, Nagaur district to the southeast, Jodhpur district to the south, Jaisalmer district to the southwest, and Punjab Province of Pakistan to the northwest.
Bikaner district lies in the Thar Desert. The Indira Gandhi Canal, also known as the Rajasthan Canal, runs through the district from northeast to southwest, providing irrigation water for the district.
In October, 2020 an international group of researchers found a lost river that ran through the central Thar Desert ; 1,72,000 years ago.[1]
Climate
Administrative set-up
Bikaner district has eight sub-divisions called tehsils: Bikaner, Nokha, Loonkaransar, Khajuwala, Shri Dungargarh, Kolayat, Chhattargarh and Pugal. There are two sub-tehsils: Bajju is in Kolayat and Mahajan is in Loonkaransar.
There are 1498 villages and 290 gram panchayats.[2] There is one municipal corporation (Bikaner) and six municipal councils: Deshnok, Nokha, Dungargarh, Khajuwala, Loonkaransar and Napasar. The collector and district magistrate (DM) of Bikaner is Nimit Mehta[3] and additional magistrate is Sunita Chaudhary.[4]
Demographics
According to the 2011 census Bikaner district has a population of 2,363,937, roughly equal to the nation of Latvia or the US state of New Mexico.[5][6] This gives it a ranking of 190th in India (out of a total of 640). Area of district is 30247.90 sq.km. The district has a population density of Template:Convert. Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 41.42%. Bikaner has a sex ratio of 903 females for every 1,000 males, and a literacy rate of 65.92%.Template:Citation needed
At the time of the 2011 Census of India, 95.94% of the population in the district spoke Hindi and 1.59% Punjabi as their first language.[7]
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See also
References
- ↑ Lost River that flowed through That desert 172k years ago. Wion News.
- ↑ Blocks/ Tehsils/ Panchayats, Bikaner-Rajasthan. bikaner.rajasthan.gov.in. Retrieved 2016-09-06.
- ↑ Nimit Mehta IAS (Nimit Mehta IAS) | Patrika News. patrika.com/. Retrieved 2020-07-03.
- ↑ Sunita Chaudhary RAS transferred as Addl Collector & ADM (City), Bikaner | Indian Bureaucracy is an Exclusive News Portal(2019-10-29). Retrieved 2020-07-07.
- ↑ Country Comparison:Population. Retrieved 2011-10-01.
- ↑ 2010 Resident Population Data. U. S. Census Bureau. Retrieved 2011-09-30.
- ↑ 2011 Census of India, Population By Mother Tongue
External links
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