Nayagarh district is one of the 30 districts of
Odisha
Odisha (English: , ), formerly Orissa ( the official name until 2011), is an Indian state located in Eastern India. It is the 8th largest state by area, and the 11th largest by population. The state has the third largest population of ...
state in eastern
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...
. It was created in 1st April 1993 when the erstwhile
Puri District
Puri district is a coastal district of the Odisha state of India. It has one sub-division, 11 tahasils and 11 blocks and comprises 1722 revenue villages. Puri is the only municipality of the district. Konark, Pipili and Nimapara are the thre ...
was split into three distinct districts, namely
Khordha, Nayagarh and Puri.
The district is bordered by
Khordha district to the south and east,
Cuttack district to the east and north,
Angul district to the north,
Boudh district
Boudh District is an administrative and a municipal district, one of the thirty in the Odisha, India. The district headquarters of the Boudh District is the city of Boudh.
History
The early history of Boudh is uncertain. The discovery of ...
to the northwest,
Kandhamal district
Kandhamal district is a district in the state of Odisha, India. The district headquarters of the district is Phulbani. Kandhamal is famous for its local turmeric renowned as 'Kandhamal Haldi' which has earned the Geographical indication (GI) tag ...
to the west and
Ganjam district to the southwest.
Blocks
# Bhapur
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Daspalla
Dashapalla, also known as Daspalla, is an archaeologically important site situated in Nayagarh district, Odisha, India.
History
Available records, writings, books reveal that at first there was no such place known as Daspalla. Rather it was a ...
# Gania
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Khandapada
Khandapada (also spelt as Khandapara) is a town and a notified area committee in Nayagarh district in the Indian state of Odisha. It is located in the valley of nine mountains.
Geography
Khandapada is located at . It has an average elevation of ...
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Nayagarh
Nayagarh is both a town and the municipality headquarters of the Nayagarh district in the Indian state of Odisha.
Geography
Nayagarh is located at with an average elevation of 178 metres (584 feet).
It was the Rukhi mountain to the south ...
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Nuagan
Nuagan is a town in Nayagarh district of Odisha state of India.
Geography
It is located at at an elevation of 3 ft above MSL.http://www.fallingrain.com/world/IN/21/Nuagan.html Map and weather of Nuagan
Location
National Highway 227 Khu ...
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Odagaon
Odagaon is a town and Notified area council in the Nayagarh district of the Indian state of Odisha. It is the location of the Lord Raghunath Temple. The Shriram Navami festival of Odagaon is one of the renowned festival in Odisha. It is the third ...
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Ranapur
Demographics
According to the
2011 census, Nayagarh district has a
population
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of 962,789,
roughly equal to the nation of
Fiji
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or the US state of
Montana
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.
This gives it a ranking of 453rd in India (out of a total of
640).
[ The district has a population density of .][ Its ]population growth rate
Population growth is the increase in the number of people in a population or dispersed group. Actual global human population growth amounts to around 83 million annually, or 1.1% per year. The global population has grown from 1 billion in 1800 to ...
over the decade 2001-2011 was 11.3%.[ Nayagarh has a ]sex ratio
The sex ratio (or gender ratio) is usually defined as the ratio of males to females in a population. As explained by Fisher's principle, for evolutionary reasons this is typically about 1:1 in species which reproduce sexually. Many species devia ...
of 916 females
Female (symbol: ♀) is the sex of an organism that produces the large non-motile ova (egg cells), the type of gamete (sex cell) that fuses with the male gamete during sexual reproduction.
A female has larger gametes than a male. Females ...
for every 1000 males,[ and a ]literacy rate
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of 79.17%. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes make up 14.17% and 6.10% of the population respectively.[
]
Language
Odia is the predominant language, spoken by 99.09% of the population. Kui is spoken by a small minority (0.60%).
See also
* Nayagarh State
Nayagarh State was one of the princely states of India from the period of the British Raj. It was located in present-day Nayagarh district, Odisha.
The state was bounded in the north by Khandpara State and Puri District. The capital was at Nay ...
– Princely state existed in the Nayagarh district, Odisha, India.
References
External links
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Nayagarh District
1995 establishments in Orissa
Districts of Odisha