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Gaya district

district of Bihar, India
AdministrativeArea District Of India Q49173

Facts

24 properties

Identity

Instance of
district of India
Official website
gaya.bih.nic.in[15]

Location

Country
India[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 24.750°, 85.000°[14]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Magadh division[2]
Shares border with
Jehanabad district, Nawada district, Koderma district, Hazaribagh district[5][6][7][8]

Population and size

Area
4976.0
Female population
2124852.0
Male population
2266566.0
Population
4,391,418

Codes

Located in time zone
UTC+05:30[13]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata UTC+05:30 GeoNames Asia/Kolkata edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
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Short name
GAY
Website
gaya.bih.nic.in
Located in
Magadh division
Capital
Gaya[4]
Contains the administrative territorial entity
Gaya Sadar subdivision, Tikari subdivision, Sherghati subdivision, Neem Chak Bathani subdivision[9][10][11][12]
Coordinates
🗺️ 24.750°, 85.000°
Described by source
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Geoshape
🗺️ View shape: India/Bihar/Gaya
Illiterate population
2093805.0
Literate population
2297613.0
Number of households
688425.0
Rural population
3809817.0
Urban population
581601.0
🏷️ Also known as
en Gaya district ar جايا (الهند) de Gaya fa بخش گایا fr district de Gaya hi गया जिला it distretto di Gaya ja ガヤー地区 ja ガヤー県 ru Гая sv Gayā th อำเภอคยา zh 格雅縣 zh-hans 格雅县
🔖 Identifiers · 19
VIAF cluster ID
127901546
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n85030399
GND ID
4386279-2
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
156016761
Curlie ID
Regional/Asia/India/Bihar/Districts/Gaya/
Data Commons ID
wikidataId/Q49173
Freebase ID
/m/0cjdb9
GNS Unique Feature ID
-2096095
GeoNames ID
1271440
INaturalist place ID
32095
Indian census area code (2011)
236
J9U entity ID
987007564630005171
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LGD District Code
196
OpenStreetMap relation ID
1963167
Topic's main category
Category:Gaya district
Who's on First ID
890508449
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["AdministrativeDivision", {"Gaya", "Bihar", "India"}]
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJwhyPVJ8jQFy9PRJ8XTpP
Yale LUX ID
place/6cf70cf4-b7c1-43f8-b2b7-8c05fd45d5da

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🔗 Connections
Contained subdivisions 11
Gaya, Bodh Gaya, Sherghati, Tekari, Sujata Garh, Vishnupad Temple, Gaya, Central University of South Bihar, Bakraur +3 more
Shares border with 4
Jehanabad district, Nawada district, Hazaribagh district, Koderma district
← Shares border with 4
Jehanabad district, Nawada district, Hazaribagh district, Koderma district
Described by source 2
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
People born here 2
Jitan Ram Manjhi, Syed Hussain Bilgrami
Capital 1
Gaya
Country 1
India
Instance of 1
district of India
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Magadh division
Located in time zone 1
UTC+05:30
Topic's main category 1
Category:Gaya district
← Capital of 1
Gaya
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Gaya district
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Magadh division
← SNARC ID 1
Graz University of Technology
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Summary

Gaya district is a district of India[1].

Body

Physical Characteristics

Gaya district's area is recorded as 4976 km²[16]. Its population is recorded as {'amount': '+4391418'}[17].

Related Entities

Central University of South Bihar Gaya India Magadh University

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. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . Census of India 2011 (Bihar): Gaya District Primary Census Abstract. wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . Census of India 2011 (Bihar): Gaya District Primary Census Abstract. wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . Census of India 2011 (Bihar): Gaya District Primary Census Abstract. wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . Census of India 2011 (Bihar): Gaya District Primary Census Abstract. wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . 2011 census of India. censusindia.gov.in. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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