Bangalore Urban district

Bangalore Urban district
Bangalore Urban district
	— district —
	; ; Bangalore Urban district Location of the district headquarters in Karnataka, India
	Coordinates: 12°58′13″N 77°33′37″E / 12.970214, 77.56029Coordinates: 12°58′13″N 77°33′37″E / 12.970214, 77.56029
Country	India
State	Karnataka
Headquarters	Bangalore
Talukas	Bangalore, Anekal
	Government
• Deputy Commissioner	M. K. Aiyappa
Time zone	IST (UTC+5:30)

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This article is about the district. For its eponymous headquarters, see Bengaluru.

Bangalore Urban (Kannada: ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು ನಗರ) is a district of the Indian state of Karnataka. It is surrounded by the Bangalore Rural district on the west, east and north and the Krishnagiri district of Tamil Nadu on the south. Bengaluru Urban district came into being in 1986, with the partition of the erstwhile Bengaluru district into Bengaluru Urban and Bangalore Rural districts. Bangalore Urban has four taluks —Bangalore North, Bangalore East, Bangalore South and Anekal. The city of Bangalore is situated in the Bangalore Urban district. The Bangalore Urban district has 17 hoblies, 668 villages and 9 municipal corporations.

This is the most advanced district in Karnataka. It had a population of 6,537,124 of which 88.11% is urban as of 2001.^[2] As of Census 2011, its population has increased to 9,588,910, with a sex-ratio of 908 females/males, the lowest in the state and its density is 4,378 people per square km.^[3]

Geography[]

Climate[]

Climate data for Bangalore
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Average high °C (°F)	27.0 (80.6)	29.6 (85.3)	32.4 (90.3)	33.6 (92.5)	32.7 (90.9)	29.2 (84.6)	27.5 (81.5)	27.4 (81.3)	28.0 (82.4)	27.7 (81.9)	26.6 (79.9)	25.9 (78.6)	29.0 (84.2)
Average low °C (°F)	15.1 (59.2)	16.6 (61.9)	19.2 (66.6)	21.5 (70.7)	21.2 (70.2)	19.9 (67.8)	19.5 (67.1)	19.4 (66.9)	19.3 (66.7)	19.1 (66.4)	17.2 (63.0)	15.6 (60.1)	18.6 (65.5)
Rainfall mm (inches)	2.7 (0.106)	7.2 (0.283)	4.4 (0.173)	46.3 (1.823)	119.6 (4.709)	80.6 (3.173)	110.2 (4.339)	137.0 (5.394)	194.8 (7.669)	180.4 (7.102)	64.5 (2.539)	22.1 (0.87)	969.8 (38.181)
Avg. rainy days	0.2	0.5	0.4	3.0	7.0	6.4	8.3	10.0	9.3	9.0	4.0	1.7	59.8
Mean monthly sunshine hours	263.5	248.6	272.8	258.0	241.8	138.0	111.6	114.7	144.0	173.6	189.0	210.8	2,366.4
Source #1: WMO ^[4]
Source #2: HKO (sun only, 1971–1990) ^[5]

Demographics[]

According to the 2011 census Bangalore Urban district has a population of 9,588,910,^[6] roughly equal to the nation of Belarus^[7] or the US state of North Carolina.^[8] This gives it a ranking of 3rd in India (out of a total of 640).^[6] The district has a population density of 4,378 inhabitants per square kilometre (11,340 /sq mi) .^[6] Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 46.68 %.^[6] Bangalore has a sex ratio of 908 females for every 1000 males,^[6] and a literacy rate of 88.48 %.^[6]

Languages[]

The majority of the population speak Kannada. Hindi, Telugu, Tamil and Urdu are also spoken by minorities.

Temples[]

Gavi Gangadhareshwara Temple

References[]

^ Congress bags Bengaluru Urban ZP retrieved on 09 December 2010
^ Census GIS India
^ "Girls are still scarce in IT City". The Times Of India. 2011-04-06. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/IT-City-has-the-worst-sex-ratio-in-Karnataka/articleshow/7879524.cms.
^ "Bengaluru". World Meteorological Organisation. http://www.worldweather.org/066/c00523.htm. Retrieved 2010-03-21.
^ "Climatological Information for Bengaluru, India". Hong Kong Observatory. http://www.weather.gov.hk/wxinfo/climat/world/eng/asia/india/bangalore_e.htm. Retrieved 2011-05-04.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "District Census 2011". Census2011.co.in. 2011. http://www.census2011.co.in/district.php. Retrieved 2011-09-30.
^ US Directorate of Intelligence. "Country Comparison:Population". https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2119rank.html. Retrieved 2011-10-01. "Belarus 9,577,552 July 2011 est."
^ "2010 Resident Population Data". U. S. Census Bureau. http://2010.census.gov/2010census/data/apportionment-pop-text.php. Retrieved 2011-09-30. "North Carolina 9,535,483"

External links[]

Official website of Bangalore Urban District

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[1] Congress bags Bengaluru Urban ZP retrieved on 09 December 2010

[2] Census GIS India

[3] "Girls are still scarce in IT City". The Times Of India. 2011-04-06. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bangalore/IT-City-has-the-worst-sex-ratio-in-Karnataka/articleshow/7879524.cms.

[WMO-4] "Bengaluru". World Meteorological Organisation. http://www.worldweather.org/066/c00523.htm. Retrieved 2010-03-21.

[HKO-5] "Climatological Information for Bengaluru, India". Hong Kong Observatory. http://www.weather.gov.hk/wxinfo/climat/world/eng/asia/india/bangalore_e.htm. Retrieved 2011-05-04.

[districtcensus-6] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "District Census 2011". Census2011.co.in. 2011. http://www.census2011.co.in/district.php. Retrieved 2011-09-30.

[cia-7] US Directorate of Intelligence. "Country Comparison:Population". https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2119rank.html. Retrieved 2011-10-01. "Belarus 9,577,552 July 2011 est."

[8] "2010 Resident Population Data". U. S. Census Bureau. http://2010.census.gov/2010census/data/apportionment-pop-text.php. Retrieved 2011-09-30. "North Carolina 9,535,483"

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