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

Divisions of West Bengal

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

Alphabetical listing

Code[4] District Headquarters[5] Established[6] Subdivisions[3] Area[7] Population As of 2011[7] Population Density Map
AD Alipurduar Alipurduar 2014 3,383 km2 (1,306 sq mi) 1,700,000 400/km2 (1,000/sq mi)
BN Bankura Bankura 1947 6,882 km2 (2,657 sq mi) 3,596,292 523/km2 (1,350/sq mi)
BR Purba Bardhaman Bardhaman 2017 7,024 km2 (2,712 sq mi) 7,723,663 1,100/km2 (2,800/sq mi)
Paschim Bardhaman Asansol 2017
  • Asansol Sadar subdivision
  • Durgapur subdivision
 1,603.17 km2 (618.99 sq mi) 2,882,031 1,800/km2 (4,700/sq mi)
BI Birbhum Suri 1947 4,545 km2 (1,755 sq mi) 3,502,387 771/km2 (2,000/sq mi)
KB Cooch Behar Cooch Behar 1950 3,387 km2 (1,308 sq mi) 2,822,780 833/km2 (2,160/sq mi)
DA Darjeeling Darjeeling 1947 2,092.5 km2 (807.9 sq mi) 1,797,422 859/km2 (2,220/sq mi)
ME Purba Medinipur Tamluk 2002 4,736 km2 (1,829 sq mi) 5,094,238 1,076/km2 (2,790/sq mi)
HG Hooghly Chinsura 1947 3,149 km2 (1,216 sq mi) 5,520,389 1,753/km2 (4,540/sq mi)
HR Howrah Howrah 1947 1,467 km2 (566 sq mi) 1,072,161 -
JP Jalpaiguri Jalpaiguri 1869 2,844 km2 (1,098 sq mi) 2,172,846 621/km2 (1,610/sq mi)
JH Jhargram Jhargram 2017[8] 3,037.64 km2 (1,172.84 sq mi) 1,136,548 833/km2 (2,160/sq mi)
KO Kolkata Kolkata 1947 — 185 km2 (71 sq mi) 4,486,679 24,252/km2 (62,810/sq mi)
KA Kalimpong Kalimpong 2017[9] 1,044 km2 (403 sq mi) 251,642
MA Malda English Bazar 1947 3,733 km2 (1,441 sq mi) 3,997,970 1,071/km2 (2,770/sq mi)
MU Murshidabad Baharampur 1947 5,324 km2 (2,056 sq mi) 7,102,430 1,334/km2 (3,460/sq mi)
NA Nadia Krishnanagar 1947 3,927 km2 (1,516 sq mi) 5,168,488 1,316/km2 (3,410/sq mi)
PN North 24 Parganas Barasat 1986[10] 4,094 km2 (1,581 sq mi) 10,082,852 2,463/km2 (6,380/sq mi)
UD Uttar Dinajpur Raiganj 1992[11] 3,140 km2 (1,210 sq mi) 3,000,849 956/km2 (2,480/sq mi)
PU Purulia Purulia 1956[12] 6,259 km2 (2,417 sq mi) 2,927,965 468/km2 (1,210/sq mi)
PS South 24 Parganas Alipore 1986[10] 9,960 km2 (3,850 sq mi) 8,153,176 819/km2 (2,120/sq mi)
DD Dakshin Dinajpur Balurghat 1992[13] 2,219 km2 (857 sq mi) 1,670,931 753/km2 (1,950/sq mi)
ME Paschim Midnapore Medinipur 2002[9] 9,345 km2 (3,608 sq mi) 5,943,300 636/km2 (1,650/sq mi)
Total 23 — — 74 88,752 km2 (34,267 sq mi) 91,347,736 1,029/km2 (2,670/sq mi)

Demographics

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

  1. ↑ "The Statesman: Alipurduar to become Bengal's 20th dist". Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 21 June 2014.
  2. ↑ Roy Alipurduar: Alipurduar a new district on June 25 | Kolkata News - Times of India
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "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.
  4. ↑ "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]
  5. ↑ "Districts : West Bengal". Government of India portal. Retrieved 24 November 2008.
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 "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.
  8. ↑ "Brief History of Cooch Behar". Official website of Cooch Behar District. Archived from the original on 24 July 2011. Retrieved 10 September 2008.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 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.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 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.
  11. ↑ "Home page". Official website of Uttar Dinajpur District. Retrieved 1 September 2008.
  12. ↑ "District profile". Official website of Purulia District. Archived from the original on 9 December 2009. Retrieved 18 November 2008.
  13. ↑ "Historical Perspective". Official website of South Dinajpur District. Archived from the original on 16 April 2008. Retrieved 1 September 2008.
  14. ↑ "Indian Districts by Population, Growth Rate, Sex Ratio 2011 Census". Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Retrieved 6 April 2013.

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