Kaithal district is one of the 22

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Haryana Haryana (; ) is an Indian state located in the northern part of the country. It was carved out of the former state of East Punjab on 1 Nov 1966 on a linguistic basis. It is ranked 21st in terms of area, with less than 1.4% () of India's land ...

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in northern

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area, the List of countries and dependencies by population, second-most populous ...

. Kaithal town is the district headquarters. The district occupies an area of 2317 km². It has a population of 1,074,304 (2011 census). It is part of

Karnal division Karnal Division is one of the six divisions of Haryana state of India. It comprises the districts of Karnal, Panipat and Kaithal. It was announced in January 2017 and approved by the Haryana cabinet on 2 February 2017.tehsil A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluka, or taluk) is a local unit of administrative division in some countries of South Asia. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its adminis ...

s: Kaithal, Guhla,

Pundri Pundri is a City and a municipal committee, near Kaithal City in Kaithal district of the Indian state of Haryana. Pundri along with Pundrak was named after the sage Pundarik, who is highly revered by all Hindus. Pundri is the seat of a Tehsi ...

and Kalayat; and the three sub-tehsils of Rajaund, Dhand and Siwan. The four

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constituencies located in this district are Guhla, Kalayat, Kaithal and Pundri. All of these are part of Kurukshetra Lok Sabha constituency.

Demographics

According to the 2011 census Kaithal district has a

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of 1,074,304, roughly more than the nation of

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or the US state of

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. This gives it a ranking of 423rd in India (out of a total of 640). The district has a population density of . Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 13.39%. Kaithal has a

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of 880

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for every 1000 males, and a

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of 70.6%. Scheduled Castes make up 23.04% of the population.

Languages

At the time of the

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, 61.85% of the population in the district spoke

Haryanvi Haryanvi ( ' or '), also known as Bangru, is an Indo-Aryan language spoken in the state of Haryana in India, and to a lesser extent in Delhi. Haryanvi is considered to be part of the dialect group of Western Hindi, which also includes Kharib ...

, 26.48%

Hindi Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been ...

and 10.42%

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as their first language..

References

External links

Kaithal district, official website
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