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Kozhikode district

district of Kerala, India
AdministrativeArea district_of_india Q1142979

Facts

24 properties
Instance of
district of India
Inception
1957[9]
Country
India[3]
Official website
kozhikode.nic.in, kozhikode.nic.in[12][13]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 11.250°, 75.770°, 🗺️ 11.500°, 76.000°[10][11]
Short name
KOZ[19]
Area
+2344[22]
Capital
Kozhikode[4]
Demographics of topic
demographics of Kozhikode district
Different from
Kozhikode District Panchayat[20]
Economy of topic
economy of Kozhikode district
Elevation above sea level
+127[21]
Female population
+1615351[17]
Geoshape
🗺️ View shape: India/Kerala/Kozhikode
Illiterate population
+470850
Literate population
+2615443
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Kerala[2]
Male population
+1470942[18]
Number of households
+697710[16]
Population
+3086293[14]
Replaces
Malabar District[15]
Rural population
+1013721
Shares border with
Kannur district, Malappuram district, Wayanad district, Mahé district[5][6][7][8]
Urban population
+2072572
🏷️ Also known as
en Kozhikode district en Calicut district en Kozhikkode District ar منطقة كوجيكود ar منطقة كوريكود ar كوجيكود de Kozhikode fa بخش کوژیکود hi कोष़िक्कोड जिला hi कोझीकोड जिला hi कोषि़क्कोड जिला id Distrik Kozhikode it distretto di Kozhikode ja カリカット地区 ja コーリコード県 ru Каликут ru Кожикоде sv Calicutdistriktet tr Kozhikode ilçesi zh 科澤科德縣
🔖 Identifiers · 21
VIAF cluster ID
132153400
Library of Congress authority ID
n81002602
GND ID
7603931-6
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Feroke Tile factory.jpg ↗
BabelNet ID
02937962n
Curlie ID
Regional/Asia/India/Kerala/Districts/Kozhikode/
Data Commons ID
wikidataId/Q1142979
Freebase ID
/m/09ngbm
GNS Unique Feature ID
-2101690
GeoNames ID
1265874
INaturalist place ID
32270
IdRef ID
109044193
Show all 21 identifiers +9
Indian census area code (2011)
591
LGD District Code
561
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007566735405171
OpenStreetMap relation ID
2018249
Topic's main category
Category:Kozhikode district
Who's on First ID
890510777
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["AdministrativeDivision", {"Kozhikode", "Kerala", "India"}]
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJbCP7xyXKvFKHKfpjWkXd
Yale LUX ID
place/58b5b039-c12e-4c2d-b119-0f5b6cc3af78
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Located in time zoneP421
Asia/Kolkata 2026-09-26 A/ADM2 · IN GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
🔗 Connections
Contained subdivisions 43
Kozhikode, Beypore, Vatakara, Mavoor, Feroke, Koyilandy, Tirur, Karuvanthuruthy +35 more
← Shares border with 5
Malappuram, Wayanad district, Kannur district, Malappuram district, Mahé district
Shares border with 4
Wayanad district, Kannur district, Malappuram district, Mahé district
People born here 2
P. Valsala, Valiya Hamza
← Category combines topics 2
Category:People from Kozhikode district, Category:Villages in Kozhikode district
← Category's main topic 2
Category:Kozhikode district, Category:Cities and towns in Kozhikode district
Capital 1
Kozhikode
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Kozhikode district
Country 1
India
Instance of 1
district of India
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Kerala
Located in this place 1
Thusharagiri Falls
Located in time zone 1
UTC+05:30
Replaces 1
Malabar District
Topic's main category 1
Category:Kozhikode district
← Capital of 1
Kozhikode
← Replaced by 1
Malabar District
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Summary

Kozhikode district is a district of India[1].

Related Entities

India Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences Kozhikode Sirajul Huda

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Retrieved . 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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . 2011 census of India. censusindia.gov.in. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . 2011 census of India. wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . 2011 census of India. censusindia.gov.in. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . 2011 census of India. censusindia.gov.in. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . local government in India. wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . lsgkerala.gov.in. lsgkerala.gov.in. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5w ago · Printstream · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Capital → Kozhikode
    Sitelink count → 40
    Official website → https://kozhikode.nic.in/, https://kozhikode.nic.in/en/
    Category of associated people → Category:People from Kozhikode district
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