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Dumka district

district of Jharkhand, India
AdministrativeArea district_of_india Q2577657

Facts

19 properties

Identity

Instance of
district of India
Official website
dumka.nic.in[10]

Location

Country
India[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 24.267°, 87.250°, 🗺️ 24.270°, 87.250°, 🗺️ 24.300°, 87.250°[7][8][9]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Santhal Pargana division[2]
Shares border with
Banka district, Birbhum district[5][6]

Population and size

Area
+3716[17]
Female population
+652928[13]
Male population
+668514[14]
Population
+1321442[11]
More facts +9
Short name
DMK[15]
Capital
Dumka[4]
Different from
Dumka[16]
Geoshape
🗺️ View shape: India/Jharkhand/Dumka
Illiterate population
+649033[20]
Literate population
+672409[21]
Number of households
+275019[12]
Rural population
+1231264[19]
Urban population
+90178[18]
🏷️ Also known as
en Dumka district da Dumka es Distrito de Dumka fa بخش دامکا fr district de Dumka hi दुमका जिला it distretto di Dumka ja ドゥムカー県 ru Думка ru Думка (округ) sv Dumka (distrikt) zh 敦卡縣
🔖 Identifiers · 14
VIAF cluster ID
138703034
Library of Congress authority ID
no2001045520
GND ID
4365186-0
Data Commons ID
wikidataId/Q2577657
Freebase ID
/m/07jfd2
GeoNames ID
7627175
INaturalist place ID
32219
Indian census area code (2011)
362
LGD District Code
326
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007491693205171
OpenStreetMap relation ID
1972071
Topic's main category
Category:Dumka district
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Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["AdministrativeDivision", {"Dumka", "Jharkhand", "India"}]
Yale LUX ID
place/eb25b4cc-9e06-4b13-84dd-2f5fe26859c9
📚 Sources · 1
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Located in time zoneP421
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Source
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Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
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🔗 Connections
Contained subdivisions 9
Damodar River, Dumka, Basukinath, Kurwa railway station, Maluti, Dumka railway station, Hansdiha, Massanjore Dam +1 more
Shares border with 2
Birbhum district, Banka district
← Shares border with 2
Birbhum district, Banka district
Capital 1
Dumka
Country 1
India
Different from 1
Dumka
Instance of 1
district of India
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Santhal Pargana division
Located in time zone 1
UTC+05:30
Topic's main category 1
Category:Dumka district
← Capital of 1
Dumka
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Dumka district
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Santhal Pargana division
← Different from 1
Dumka
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Summary

Dumka district is a district of India[1].

Related Entities

Damodar River India Sido Kanhu Murmu University, Dumka

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . 2011 census of India. censusindia.gov.in. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . 2011 census of India. wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . 2011 census of India. censusindia.gov.in. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . 2011 census of India. censusindia.gov.in. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . local government in India. wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . censusindia.gov.in. censusindia.gov.in. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . censusindia.gov.in. censusindia.gov.in. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . censusindia.gov.in. censusindia.gov.in. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . censusindia.gov.in. censusindia.gov.in. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5w ago · Printstream · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Different from → Dumka
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Santhal Pargana division
    Wikipedia languages → ['anp', 'arz', 'as', 'bh', 'bn', 'ca', 'ceb', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'eu', 'fa', 'fr'
    Website → —
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