List of districts of West Bengal
West Bengal is now divided into 23 districts. These includes the newly formed Jhargram district, Alipurduar district and the Kalimpong district, Purba Bardhaman district under five divisions.[1][2] Alipurduar Bankura Birbhum Cooch Behar Dakshin Dinajpur (South Dinajpur) Darjeeling Hooghly Howrah Jalpaiguri Jhargram Kalimpong Kolkata Malda Murshidabad Nadia North 24 Parganas Paschim Medinipur (West Medinipur) Paschim (West) Burdwan (Bardhaman) Purba Burdwan (Bardhaman) Purba Medinipur (East Medinipur) Purulia South 24 Parganas Uttar Dinajpur (North Dinajpur
Divisions
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A group of districts forms a division. Divisions are administered by a 'Divisional Commissioner'. West Bengal is now divided in twenty three districts, grouped under five divisions:[3]
| Malda division | Burdwan division | Jalpaiguri division | Presidency division | Medinipur division |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Alphabetical listing
[change | change source]| Code[4] | District | Headquarters[5] | Established[6] | Subdivisions[3] | Area[7] | Population As of 2011[update][7] | Population Density | Map |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AD | Alipurduar | Alipurduar | 2014 | 3,383 km2 (1,306 sq mi) | 1,700,000 | 400/km2 (1,000/sq mi) | .svg) | |
| BN | Bankura | Bankura | 1947 | 6,882 km2 (2,657 sq mi) | 3,596,292 | 523/km2 (1,350/sq mi) | .svg) | |
| BR | Purba Bardhaman | Bardhaman | 2017 | 7,024 km2 (2,712 sq mi) | 7,723,663 | 1,100/km2 (2,800/sq mi) | .svg) | |
| Paschim Bardhaman | Asansol | 2017 |
|
1,603.17 km2 (618.99 sq mi) | 2,882,031 | 1,800/km2 (4,700/sq mi) | .svg) | |
| BI | Birbhum | Suri | 1947 | 4,545 km2 (1,755 sq mi) | 3,502,387 | 771/km2 (2,000/sq mi) | .svg) | |
| KB | Cooch Behar | Cooch Behar | 1950 | 3,387 km2 (1,308 sq mi) | 2,822,780 | 833/km2 (2,160/sq mi) | .svg) | |
| DA | Darjeeling | Darjeeling | 1947 | 2,092.5 km2 (807.9 sq mi) | 1,797,422 | 859/km2 (2,220/sq mi) | .svg) | |
| ME | Purba Medinipur | Tamluk | 2002 | 4,736 km2 (1,829 sq mi) | 5,094,238 | 1,076/km2 (2,790/sq mi) | .svg) | |
| HG | Hooghly | Chinsura | 1947 | 3,149 km2 (1,216 sq mi) | 5,520,389 | 1,753/km2 (4,540/sq mi) | .svg) | |
| HR | Howrah | Howrah | 1947 | 1,467 km2 (566 sq mi) | 1,072,161 | - | .svg) | |
| JP | Jalpaiguri | Jalpaiguri | 1869 | 2,844 km2 (1,098 sq mi) | 2,172,846 | 621/km2 (1,610/sq mi) | .svg) | |
| JH | Jhargram | Jhargram | 2017[8] | 3,037.64 km2 (1,172.84 sq mi) | 1,136,548 | 833/km2 (2,160/sq mi) | .svg) | |
| KO | Kolkata | Kolkata | 1947 | — | 185 km2 (71 sq mi) | 4,486,679 | 24,252/km2 (62,810/sq mi) | .svg) |
| KA | Kalimpong | Kalimpong | 2017[9] | 1,044 km2 (403 sq mi) | 251,642 | .svg) | ||
| MA | Malda | English Bazar | 1947 | 3,733 km2 (1,441 sq mi) | 3,997,970 | 1,071/km2 (2,770/sq mi) | .svg) | |
| MU | Murshidabad | Baharampur | 1947 | 5,324 km2 (2,056 sq mi) | 7,102,430 | 1,334/km2 (3,460/sq mi) | .svg) | |
| NA | Nadia | Krishnanagar | 1947 | 3,927 km2 (1,516 sq mi) | 5,168,488 | 1,316/km2 (3,410/sq mi) | .svg) | |
| PN | North 24 Parganas | Barasat | 1986[10] | 4,094 km2 (1,581 sq mi) | 10,082,852 | 2,463/km2 (6,380/sq mi) | .svg) | |
| UD | Uttar Dinajpur | Raiganj | 1992[11] | 3,140 km2 (1,210 sq mi) | 3,000,849 | 956/km2 (2,480/sq mi) | .svg) | |
| PU | Purulia | Purulia | 1956[12] |
|
6,259 km2 (2,417 sq mi) | 2,927,965 | 468/km2 (1,210/sq mi) | .svg) |
| PS | South 24 Parganas | Alipore | 1986[10] | 9,960 km2 (3,850 sq mi) | 8,153,176 | 819/km2 (2,120/sq mi) | .svg) | |
| DD | Dakshin Dinajpur | Balurghat | 1992[13] | 2,219 km2 (857 sq mi) | 1,670,931 | 753/km2 (1,950/sq mi) | .svg) | |
| ME | Paschim Midnapore | Medinipur | 2002[9] | 9,345 km2 (3,608 sq mi) | 5,943,300 | 636/km2 (1,650/sq mi) | .svg) | |
| Total | 23 | — | — | 74 | 88,752 km2 (34,267 sq mi) | 91,347,736 | 1,029/km2 (2,670/sq mi) |  |
Demographics
[change | change source]The following is a list of the basic demographic data for the districts of West Bengal by their population rank in India[14]
| Rank | District | Population | Growth Rate | Sex Ratio | Literacy | Density/KM | Comparable Country (by population) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | North 24 Parganas | 11,060,148 | 12.86 | 955 | 84.53 | 2,445 | Bolivia |
| 6 | South 24 Parganas | 9,161,961 | 18.17 | 956 | 77.51 | 819 | Honduras |
| 7 | Bardhaman | 7,717,563 | 11.92 | 945 | 76.21 | 1,099 | Togo |
| 9 | Murshidabad | 7,103,807 | 21.09 | 958 | 66.59 | 1,334 | Bulgaria |
| 14 | West Midnapore | 5,943,300 | 14.44 | 960 | 79.04 | 636 | Kyrgyzstan |
| 16 | Hooghly | 5,520,389 | 9.49 | 958 | 82.55 | 1,753 | Finland |
| 18 | Nadia | 5,168,488 | 12.24 | 947 | 75.58 | 1,316 | Congo |
| 20 | East Midnapore | 5,094,238 | 15.32 | 936 | 87.66 | 1,076 | Eritrea |
| 23 | Howrah | 4,841,638 | 13.31 | 935 | 83.85 | 3,300 | Ireland |
| 35 | Kolkata | 4,496,694 | -1.67 | 908 | 86.31 | 24,306 | Mauritania |
| 58 | Malda | 3,997,970 | 21.50 | 939 | 62.71 | 1,071 | Moldova |
| 66 | Jalpaiguri | 3,869,675 | 13.77 | 954 | 73.79 | 621 | Georgia |
| 80 | Bankura | 3,596,292 | 12.64 | 954 | 70.95 | 523 | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| 84 | Birbhum | 3,502,387 | 16.15 | 956 | 70.90 | 771 | Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| 124 | North Dinajpur | 3,000,849 | 22.90 | 936 | 60.13 | 956 | Mongolia |
| 129 | Purulia | 2,927,965 | 15.43 | 955 | 65.38 | 468 | Albania |
| 136 | Cooch Behar | 2,822,780 | 13.86 | 942 | 75.49 | 833 | Lithuania |
| 257 | Darjeeling | 1,842,034 | 14.47 | 971 | 79.92 | 585 | Guinea-Bissau |
| 295 | South Dinajpur | 1,670,931 | 11.16 | 954 | 73.86 | 753 | Bahrain |
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "The Statesman: Alipurduar to become Bengal's 20th dist". Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 21 June 2014.
- ↑ Roy Alipurduar: Alipurduar a new district on June 25 | Kolkata News - Times of India
- 1 2 "Directory of District, Sub division, Panchayat Samiti/ Block and Gram Panchayats in West Bengal, March 2008". West Bengal. National Informatics Centre, India. 19 March 2008. Archived from the original on 25 February 2009. Retrieved 19 November 2008.
- ↑ "NIC Policy on format of e-mail Address: Appendix (2): Districts Abbreviations as per ISO 3166–2" (PDF). Ministry Of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India. 18 May 2013. pp. 5–10. Retrieved 5 March 2020.[permanent dead link]
- ↑ "Districts : West Bengal". Government of India portal. Retrieved 24 November 2008.
- ↑ Here 'Established' means year of establishment as a district of West Bengal. The state of West Bengal was established in 1947 with 14 districts of erstwhile Bengal province of British India.
- 1 2 "Area, Population, Decennial Growth Rate and Density for 2001 and 2011 at a glance for West Bengal and the Districts" (XLS). 2011 census of India. Retrieved 13 December 2012.
- ↑ "Brief History of Cooch Behar". Official website of Cooch Behar District. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 10 September 2008.
- 1 2 Jana, Naresh (31 December 2001). "Tamluk readies for giant's partition". The Telegraph (Kolkata). Archived from the original on 1 May 2012. Retrieved 1 September 2008.
- 1 2 Mandal, Asim Kumar (2003). The Sundarbans of India: A Development Analysis. Indus Publishing. pp. 168–169. ISBN 81-7387-143-4. Retrieved 4 September 2008.
- ↑ "Home page". Official website of Uttar Dinajpur District. Retrieved 1 September 2008.
- ↑ "District profile". Official website of Purulia District. Archived from the original on 9 December 2009. Retrieved 18 November 2008.
- ↑ "Historical Perspective". Official website of South Dinajpur District. Archived from the original on 16 April 2008. Retrieved 1 September 2008.
- ↑ "Indian Districts by Population, Growth Rate, Sex Ratio 2011 Census". Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 6 April 2013.