Dhenkanal is a town and a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

Dhenkanal district Dhenkanal district is one of the 30 districts of the state of Odisha in Eastern India. History Geography Dhenkanal district is one of the centrally located districts in Odisha. It lies between Longitude: 85° 58' to 86° 2' East and Latitude ...

in the state of

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Geography

Dhenkanal is at . It has an average elevation of 80 metres (262 feet).

Demographics

As per the 2011 India

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, Dhenkanal had a population of 67,414. Males constitute 53% of the population and females 47%. Dhenkanal has an average literacy rate of 79%, higher than the national average of 59.5%. Male literacy is 84% and female literacy is 74%. In Dhenkanal, 10% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Notable people

* Amiya Kumari Padhi, High Court judge * Rudra Narayan Pany, member of Parliament *

Nandini Satpathy Nandini Satpathy (9 June 1931 – 4 August 2006) was an Indian politician and author. She was the Chief Minister of Odisha from June 1972 to December 1976. Early life Nandini Satpathy was born on 9 June 1931 as Nandini Panigrahi to Kalin ...

* Suparno Satpathy * Kamakhya Prasad Singh Deo * Devendra Satpathy * Gati Krushna Misra *

Tathagata Satpathy Tathagata Satpathy (born 1 April 1956) was a member of the 12th, 14th, 15th and 16th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Dhenkanal constituency of Odisha, and was re-elected for the fourth time in 2014. He was a member of the Biju Janata Da ...

Kalpana Dash Kalpana Dash (; 7 July 1966 – 23 May 2019) was an Indian mountaineer and the first Odia climber to scale Mount Everest. She scaled Mount Everest on 21 May 2008, along with a team of five members from the United States, Canada and Nepal. She h ...

References

External links

* {{Authority control Cities and towns in Dhenkanal district