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Malda district

district in West Bengal, India
AdministrativeArea district_of_india Q2049820

Facts

22 properties
Instance of
district of India
Country
India[3]
Official website
malda.nic.in[15]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 25.000°, 88.150°[14]
Short name
MLD
Area
+3733
Capital
Malda[4]
Contains the administrative territorial entity
Chanchal subdivision, Malda Sadar subdivision[12][13]
Described by source
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[18][19]
Female population
+1937304, +1601062
Geoshape
🗺️ View shape: India/West Bengal/Malda
Illiterate population
+1902413, +1957764
Literate population
+2086432, +1332704
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Malda division[2]
Male population
+2051541, +1689406
Native label
মালদহ জেলা
Number of households
+846991, +631935[22][23]
Official name
মালদহ জেলা, Malda district[20][21]
Population
+3988845, +3290468[16][17]
Rural population
+3447185, +3049528
Shares border with
Katihar district, Murshidabad district, Dakshin Dinajpur district, Uttar Dinajpur district, Sahebganj district, Naogaon District, Chapai Nawabganj[5][6][7][8][9][10][11]
Urban population
+541660, +240940
🏷️ Also known as
en Malda en Malda district de Maldah es Distrito de Malda fa بخش مالدا (هند) hi मालदा जिला it distretto di Malda ja マールダー県 ru Малда sv Māldah zh 馬爾達縣
🔖 Identifiers · 20
VIAF cluster ID
148955230
Library of Congress authority ID
n82259497
GND ID
4464827-3
Data Commons ID
wikidataId/Q2049820
Freebase ID
/m/07ghpp
GNS Unique Feature ID
-2103447
GeoNames ID
1264123, 1264122
INaturalist place ID
32607
Indian census area code (1991)
19.05
Indian census area code (2001)
19.06
Indian census area code (2011)
332
LGD District Code
316
Show all 20 identifiers +8
MDWS place ID
0532
Museum-digital place ID
102502
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007562135905171
OpenStreetMap relation ID
1791397
Quora topic ID
Maldah
Topic's main category
Category:Malda district
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["AdministrativeDivision", {"Malda", "WestBengal", "India"}]
Yale LUX ID
place/b93c6b9a-4146-4d2a-a334-3b578d1d5911

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Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
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🔗 Connections
Shares border with 7
Dakshin Dinajpur district, Murshidabad district, Naogaon District, Chapai Nawabganj, Uttar Dinajpur district, Sahebganj district, Katihar district
← Shares border with 5
Dakshin Dinajpur district, Murshidabad district, Uttar Dinajpur district, Katihar district, Raiganj
Contained subdivisions 3
Mahananda River, Malda Town railway station, Malda Polytechnic
People born here 2
Sabitri Mitra, Isha Khan Choudhury
Capital 1
Malda
Country 1
India
Described by source 1
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
Instance of 1
district of India
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Malda division
Located in time zone 1
UTC+05:30
Topic's main category 1
Category:Malda district
← Capital of 1
Malda
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Malda district
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Malda division
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Summary

Malda district is a district of India[1].

Body

Physical Characteristics

Malda district covers an area of 3733 km²[24].

Related Entities

India Malda Polytechnic

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . GEOnet Names Server. wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . 2011 census of India. censusindia.gov.in. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . censusindia.gov.in. censusindia.gov.in. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . 2011 census of India. wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . censusindia.gov.in. censusindia.gov.in. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5w ago · Printstream · 2026-09-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Contains the administrative territorial entity → Chanchal subdivision, Malda Sadar subdivision
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Malda division
    Wikipedia languages → ['arz', 'bh', 'bn', 'ca', 'ceb', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'eu', 'fa', 'fr', 'gu', 'hi',
    Website → —
    + 26 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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