Panchkula district was formed as the 17th

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on 15August 1995. It comprises two sub divisions and two

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 ...

Panchkula Panchkula (PKL) is a planned city and district headquarter in the Panchkula district, part of the Ambala division in Haryana, India. The origin of the name Panchkula came from the place where five irrigation canals meet. Panchkula establis ...

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Kalka Kalka is a town in the Panchkula district of Haryana, India. It is near Panchkula city. The name of the town is derived from the Hindu goddess Kali. It is situated in the foothills of the Himalayas and is a gateway to the neighbouring state ...

. It has 264 villages out of which twelve are un-inhabited and ten wholly merged with towns or treated as census towns according to the 1991 census. There are five towns in the district: Barwala,

Pinjore Pinjore is a town in Panchkula district in the Indian state of Haryana. This residential 'township', located close to Panchkula, Chandigarh, is set over 1,800 feet above the sea level in a valley, overlooking the Sivalik Hills. Pinjore is kno ...

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Raipur Rani Raipur Rani is a census town in Panchkula district in the Indian state of Haryana. It is located on the Panchkula city-Chandigarh-Nahan-Paonta Sahib-Dehradun highway east from the Chandigarh-Mohali-Panchkula urban cities combine. It is about ...

. The total population of the district is 319,398 out of which 173,557 are males and 145,841 are females. , it was the least populous district of Haryana. Panchkula city is the headquarters of this district.

Chandimandir Cantonment Chandimandir Cantonment is a military cantonment of the Indian Army located in Panchkula district at the foot of the Sivalik Hills adjoining Panchkula city in Haryana. It is the headquarters of the Western Command of the Indian Army. Backgr ...

is located in this district, adjoining the Panchkula Urban Estate.

Demographics

According to the 2011 census of India, Panchkula district had a

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of 561,293, This ranked it 537th in India out of a total of 640 districts. The district has a population density of . Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 19.32%. Panchkula has a

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of 870

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for every 1,000 males, and a

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of 83.4%. Scheduled Castes make up 18.14% of the population.

Languages

At the time of the

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, 52.13% of the population in the district spoke

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, 48.48%

Punjabi Punjabi, or Panjabi, most often refers to: * Something of, from, or related to Punjab, a region in India and Pakistan * Punjabi language * Punjabi people * Punjabi dialects and languages Punjabi may also refer to: * Punjabi (horse), a British Th ...

and 1.19% Pahari as their first language..

References

External links

Website PanchkulaOfficial Web Site of Panchkula district
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