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Districts of Bihar. Bihar, a state of India, currently has 38 administrative districts, 101 subdivisions (अनुमंडल) and 535 CD blocks.. A district of an Indian state is an administrative geographical unit, headed by a district magistrate or a deputy commissioner, an officer belonging to the Indian Administrative Service.
Structurally Bihar is divided into divisions (Pramandal - प्रमंडल)), districts (Zila), sub-divisions (Anumandal) & circles (Anchal). [1] [2] The state is divided into 9 divisions, 38 districts, 101 subdivisions and 534 circles. [3] 12 municipal corporations, 88 Nagar Parishads and 154 Nagar Panchayats for administrative purposes.
They all are members of either the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) or the Bihar Administrative Service (BAS). Majority of DM and SDM in India are the members of the IAS. At the same time, there are 853 police stations in 43 Police Districts of Bihar. Police Districts are usually headed by a Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP).
List of largest populated cities in Bihar governed by a municipal corporation [8]; Rank City Population (2011) Rank City Population (2011) 1: Patna: 1,684,222 11: Begusarai: 252,008
The following tables list the population details of various states. The columns include the hierarchical administrative subdivision codes, [8] the district name, district headquarters, 2011 census population, [9] area in square kilometres, and the population density per square kilometre. [9]
Buxar district covers an area of 1,703 km 2, roughly 1.8% of the total area of Bihar, making it the 30th largest district in the state by area. Much of the district consists of an alluvial plain, gently sloping downward toward the northeast, with a height ranging from 71m above sea level in the south to 66m in the north.
The five states of Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Bihar, West Bengal and Madhya Pradesh account for almost half (47.90 percent) of the total Indian population. [ 7 ] While the national average for the sex ratio shows an increase from 933 in 2001 to 940 in 2011, [ 7 ] the 2011 census shows a sharp decline in the child sex ratio , the number of ...
Bihar has a total literacy rate of 63.82% (73.39% for males and 53.33% for females), recording a growth of 20% in female literacy over the preceding decade. According to the 2011 census, 82.7% of Bihar's population practised Hinduism, while 16.9% followed Islam. [4] Bihar has highest fertility rate of 3.41 in comparison to the other states of ...