Sultanpur district

Sultanpur district is a district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The district is a part of the Faizabad Division. The administrative headquarters of the district is Sultanpur.

This article is about the district. For its eponymous headquarters, see Sultanpur, Uttar Pradesh.

Sultanpur district
District of Uttar Pradesh
Location of Sultanpur district in Uttar Pradesh
CountryIndia
StateUttar Pradesh
DivisionFaizabad
HeadquartersSultanpur, Uttar Pradesh
TehsilsLambhua, Kadipur, Sultanpur, Jaisinghpur, Baldirai (Newly Formed)
Government
 • Lok Sabha constituenciesSultanpur
 • Vidhan Sabha constituencies5
Area
 • Total2,673 km2 (1,032 sq mi)
Population
 (2011)
 • Total3,797,117
 • Density1,400/km2 (3,700/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+05:30 (IST)
Websitehttp://sultanpur.nic.in/

Administration

Sultanpur has now five tehsils of Sultanpur Sadar, Kadipur, Lambhua, Baldirai and Jaisinghpur.[1] The Amethi, Musafirkhana, and Gauriganj tehsils are now in Amethi district. District has one municipality, five town areas and twenty two development blocks. Besides Sultanpur city, important towns are Amethi, Chanda, Dostpur, Jagdishpur, Kadipur, Koeripur, Lambhua, Mushafirkhana and Shukul Bazar. Sultanpur is divided into seventeen police stations for the maintenance of law and order.[1][2]

Demographics
Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
19011,097,006—    
19111,061,205−0.33%
19211,016,338−0.43%
19311,064,516+0.46%
19411,115,311+0.47%
19511,298,249+1.53%
19611,418,750+0.89%
19711,649,258+1.52%
19812,050,140+2.20%
19912,571,706+2.29%
20013,214,832+2.26%
20113,797,117+1.68%
source:[3]

Languages

Hindi is the official language of the district with Urdu as additional official.[4] Languages spoken by the denizens of the district include Awadhi, a dialect in the Hindi continuum spoken by over 38 million people, mainly in the Awadh region.[5] At the time of the 2011 Census of India, 96.83% of the population in the district spoke Hindi and 3.08% Urdu as their first language.[6]

Colleges

Notable people
  • Ajmal Sultanpuri, Urdu poet native of Harakhpur village
  • Majrooh Sultanpuri, Indian Urdu/Hindi poet native of Gazehadi village
  • Ramnaresh Tripathi, Indian Hindi poet native of Koiripur village

Geographic location

See Also

References
  1. "Number of blocks situated in Sultanpur". Administration of Sultanpur. Retrieved 28 September 2012.
  2. "Police Thanas". Government of Uttar Pradesh.
  3. Decadal Variation In Population Since 1901
  4. "52nd REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER FOR LINGUISTIC MINORITIES IN INDIA" (PDF). nclm.nic.in. Ministry of Minority Affairs. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 May 2017. Retrieved 8 August 2019.
  5. M. Paul Lewis, ed. (2009). "Awadhi: A language of India". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (16th ed.). Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Retrieved 28 September 2011.
  6. "C-16 Population By Mother Tongue - Uttar Pradesh". censusindia.gov.in. Retrieved 23 September 2019.

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