Jharkhand, a state of India, has twenty-four administrative districts. [1]
Jharkhand, a state of India, has twenty-four administrative districts. [1]
A district of an Indian state is an administrative geographical unit, headed by a District magistrate or Deputy commissioner, an officer belonging to the Indian Administrative Service. The district magistrate or the deputy commissioner is assisted by a number of officials belonging to different wings of the administrative services of the state.
A Superintendent of Police, an officer belonging to Indian Police Service is entrusted with the responsibility of maintaining law and order and related issues.
At the time of formation, Jharkhand state had 18 districts. Later, six more districts were carved out by reorganizing these districts. The 23rd and 24th districts- Khunti and Ramgarh (carved out of erstwhile Ranchi and Hazaribagh District respectively) were made a district on 12 September 2007.
There are 24 districts of Jharkhand, which are grouped in to 5 divisions. These divisions are:
Below is the list of districts:
| SI No. | Code | District | Headquarters | Area [2] (km2) | Population [2] (2011) | Population Density (/km2) | Map |
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| 1 | BO | Bokaro | Bokaro Steel City | 2,883 | 2,062,330 | 715 |  |
| 2 | CH | Chatra | Chatra | 3,718 | 1,042,886 | 280 |  |
| 3 | DE | Deoghar | Deoghar | 2,477 | 1,492,073 | 602 |  |
| 4 | DH | Dhanbad | Dhanbad | 2,040 | 2,684,487 | 1316 |  |
| 5 | DU | Dumka | Dumka | 3,761 | 1,321,442 | 351 |  |
| 6 | ES | East Singhbhum | Jamshedpur | 3,562 | 2,293,919 | 644 |  |
| 7 | GA | Garhwa | Garhwa | 4,093 | 1,322,784 | 323 |  |
| 8 | GI | Giridih | Giridih | 4,962 | 2,445,474 | 493 |  |
| 9 | GO | Godda | Godda | 2,266 | 1,313,551 | 580 |  |
| 10 | GU | Gumla | Gumla | 5,360 | 1,025,213 | 191 |  |
| 11 | HA | Hazaribagh | Hazaribagh | 3,555 | 1,734,495 | 488 |  |
| 12 | Jamtara | Jamtara | 1,811 | 791,042 | 437 |  | |
| 13 | Khunti | Khunti | 2,535 | 531,885 | 210 |  | |
| 14 | KO | Kodarma | Kodarma | 2,540 | 716,259 | 282 |  |
| 15 | Latehar | Latehar | 4,291 | 726,978 | 169 |  | |
| 16 | LO | Lohardaga | Lohardaga | 1,502 | 461,790 | 307 |  |
| 17 | PK | Pakur | Pakur | 1,811 | 900,422 | 497 |  |
| 18 | PL | Palamu | Medininagar | 4,393 | 1,939,869 | 442 |  |
| 19 | Ramgarh | Ramgarh Cantonment | 1,341 | 949,443 | 708 |  | |
| 20 | RA | Ranchi | Ranchi | 5,097 | 2,914,253 | 572 |  |
| 21 | SA | Sahibganj | Sahibganj | 2,063 | 1,150,567 | 558 |  |
| 22 | Saraikela-Kharsawan | Saraikela | 2,657 | 1,065,056 | 401 |  | |
| 23 | Simdega | Simdega | 3,774 | 599,578 | 159 |  | |
| 24 | WS | West Singhbhum | Chaibasa | 7,224 | 1,502,338 | 208 |  |
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Jharkhand is a state in eastern India. The state shares its border with the states of West Bengal to the east, Chhattisgarh to the west, Uttar Pradesh to the northwest, Bihar to the north and Odisha to the south. It is the 15th largest state by area, and the 14th largest by population. Hindi is the official language of the state. The city of Ranchi is its capital and Dumka its sub-capital. The state is known for its waterfalls, hills and holy places; Baidyanath Dham, Parasnath, Dewri and Rajrappa are major religious sites. Jharkhand is primarily rural, with about 24% of its population living in cities as of 2011.
The Chota Nagpur Plateau is a plateau in eastern India, which covers much of Jharkhand state as well as adjacent parts of Chhattisgarh, Odisha, West Bengal and Bihar. The Indo-Gangetic plain lies to the north and east of the plateau, and the basin of the Mahanadi river lies to the south. The total area of the Chota Nagpur Plateau is approximately 65,000 square kilometres (25,000 sq mi).
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Ramgarh district is one of the 24 districts in the Indian state of Jharkhand. It was also a military district during the British Regime, referred to then as Ramgarh district. It is the part of State Capital Region (SCR).
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Tourism in Jharkhand refers to tourism in the Indian state of Jharkhand. Jharkhand is known for its waterfalls, hills and holy places.
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Ramgarh (community development block) is an administrative division in the Ramgarh subdivision of the Ramgarh district in the Indian state of Jharkhand.
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Chitarpur (community development block) is an administrative division in the Ramgarh subdivision of the Ramgarh district in the Indian state of Jharkhand.
Gola (community development block) is an administrative division in the Ramgarh subdivision of the Ramgarh district in the Indian state of Jharkhand.
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Edward Tuite Dalton CSI was a British soldier and anthropologist. He was posted in Assam, then became commissioner of Chota Nagpur Division. He was posted in Chotanagpur for two decades. Later he became major general of Bengal Lancer. He commanded both European and native people during the sepoy mutiny of 1857. Dalton, along with justice Campbell, Herbert Hope Risley, John-Baptist Hoffmann and P.O.Bidding initiated ethnographic studies in Chotanagpur. His work Descriptive Ethnology of Bengal formed a part of the Census in British India in 1872.
