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Varanasi district

district of Uttar Pradesh, India
Administrative Area District Of India Q1321140

Facts

22 properties

Identity

Instance of
district of India

Location

Country
India (1947–present), British Raj (?–1947)[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 25.333°, 83.000°[9]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Varanasi division (1950–present), United Provinces (1937–1950), United Provinces of British India (1921–1937), United Provinces of Agra and Oudh (1902–1921), Benares State (1770–1902)[2]
Shares border with
Bhadohi district, Chandauli district[5][6]

Population and size

Area
1578.0[16]
Female population
1754984.0[12]
Male population
1921857.0[13]
Population
3,676,841[10]

Codes

Located in time zone
UTC+05:30[8]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata UTC+05:30 GeoNames Asia/Kolkata edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
More facts +12
Short name
VRN[14]
Located in
Varanasi division, United Provinces, United Provinces of British India, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, Benares State
Capital
Varanasi[4]
Coordinates
🗺️ 25.333°, 83.000°
Different from
Varanasi division[15]
Geoshape
🗺️ View shape: India/Uttar Pradesh/Varanasi
Illiterate population
1272938.0
Literate population
2403903.0
Named after
Varanasi[7]
Number of households
560162.0[11]
Rural population
2079790.0
Urban population
1597051.0
🏷️ Also known as
en Varanasi district ar منطقة فاراناسي ar منطقة فَرَناسي da Varanasi es Distrito de Varanasi fa بخش وارناسی fr district de Vārānasī hi वाराणसी जिला id Distrik Varanasi it distretto di Varanasi ja ヴァーラーナシー県 nl Benares nl Varanasi ru Варанаси th อำเภอพาราณสี zh 瓦拉納西縣
🔖 Identifiers · 18
VIAF cluster ID
144263686
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n82017475
GND ID
4387358-3
Data Commons ID
wikidataId/Q1321140
Freebase ID
/m/082ysd
GNS Unique Feature ID
-2114215
GeoNames ID
1253407
INaturalist place ID
32582
Indian census area code (2011)
197
J9U entity ID
987007555006705171
LGD District Code
187
OpenStreetMap relation ID
1959916
Show all 18 identifiers +6
OpenWeatherMap city ID
1253405
Topic's main category
Category:Varanasi district
Who's on First ID
890510613
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["AdministrativeDivision", {"Varanasi", "UttarPradesh", "India"}]
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJkdmw8HpCJkBbPtc4RYfq
Yale LUX ID
place/dc2bd384-4cde-45a6-844b-95ba32a04bac

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🔗 Connections
Contained subdivisions 38
Varanasi, Sarnath, Banaras Hindu University, Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Nagar, Chaukhandi Stupa, Kotwa, Shivdaspur, Ramnagar Fort +30 more
Located in the administrative territorial entity 5
United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, Benares State, Varanasi division, United Provinces, United Provinces of British India
Country 2
India, British Raj
People born here 2
Raj Narain, Sanjaya Rajaram
Shares border with 2
Chandauli district, Bhadohi district
← Shares border with 2
Chandauli district, Bhadohi district
Capital 1
Varanasi
Different from 1
Varanasi division
Instance of 1
district of India
Located in time zone 1
UTC+05:30
Named after 1
Varanasi
Topic's main category 1
Category:Varanasi district
← Capital of 1
Varanasi
← Category combines topics 1
Category:Villages in Varanasi district
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Varanasi district
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Varanasi division
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Summary

Varanasi district is a district of India[1].

Related Entities

India Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapeeth Ramnagar Sampurnanand Sanskrit 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. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . 2011 census of India. censusindia.gov.in. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . 2011 census of India. wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . 2011 census of India. censusindia.gov.in. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . 2011 census of India. censusindia.gov.in. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . local government in India. wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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