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About Bihar

Bihar is an Indian State located in the Eastern region of India. Bihar State is established on 1-Apr-1936. The largest city in Bihar is Patna.

Total Area Of Bihar

The total area of Bihar is 94,163 km² including 91,838.28 km² of rural area and 2,324.72 km² of the urban area.

How Many populations in Bihar

As per 2011 stats, Bihar has a population of 10,40,99,452 peoples, out of which urban population is 1,17,58,016 while rural population is 9,23,41,436. There are about 1,89,13,565 houses in the state, including 20,50,625 urban houses and 1,68,62,940 rural houses.

Languages of Bihar

Hindi, Magadhi, Maithili, and Urdu are the main languages of Bihar. As per ISO 3166-2:IN standard – the ISO code of Bihar is IN-BR. Bihar state is further divided into districts for administrative purposes.

The Biggest And Smallest District in Bihar

Pashchim Champaran is the largest district of Bihar covering an area of 5228 km² while Sheohar is the smallest district of Bihar covering an area of 349 km². Patna is the most populous whereas Sheikhpura is the least populous district in Bihar state.

How many Districts in Bihar

As per 2011 stats, there are 38 districts in Bihar. Here is the list of all Bihar districts along with area & population information.

List of Districts of Bihar

#	District	Area (km²)	Population (2011)	Density (/km²)
1	Araria	2,830	28,11,569	993
2	Arwal	638	7,00,843	1099
3	Aurangabad	3,305	25,40,073	769
4	Banka	3,020	20,34,763	674
5	Begusarai	1,918	29,70,541	1549
6	Bhagalpur	2,569	30,37,766	1182
7	Bhojpur	2,395	27,28,407	1139
8	Buxar	1,703	17,06,352	1002
9	Darbhanga	2,279	39,37,385	1728
10	Gaya	4,976	43,91,418	883
11	Gopalganj	2,033	25,62,012	1260
12	Jamui	3,098	17,60,405	568
13	Jehanabad	931	11,25,313	1209
14	Kaimur	3,332	16,26,384	488
15	Katihar	3,057	30,71,029	1005
16	Khagaria	1,486	16,66,886	1122
17	Kishanganj	1,884	16,90,400	897
18	Lakhisarai	1,228	10,00,912	815
19	Madhepura	1,788	20,01,762	1120
20	Madhubani	3,501	44,87,379	1282
21	Munger	1,419	13,67,765	964
22	Muzaffarpur	3,172	48,01,062	1514
23	Nalanda	2,355	28,77,653	1222
24	Nawada	2,494	22,19,146	890
25	Pashchim Champaran	5,228	39,35,042	753
26	Patna	3,202	58,38,465	1823
27	Purba Champaran	3,968	50,99,371	1285
28	Purnia	3,229	32,64,619	1011
29	Rohtas	3,881	29,59,918	763
30	Saharsa	1,687	19,00,661	1127
31	Samastipur	2,904	42,61,566	1467
32	Saran	2,641	39,51,862	1496
33	Sheikhpura	689	6,36,342	924
34	Sheohar	349	6,56,246	1880
35	Sitamarhi	2,294	34,23,574	1492
36	Siwan	2,219	33,30,464	1501
37	Supaul	2,425	22,29,076	919
38	Vaishali	2,036	34,95,021	1717

Population of Bihar

Particulars	Male Population	Female Population	Total Population
Rural	4,80,73,850	4,42,67,586	9,23,41,436
Urban	62,04,307	55,53,709	1,17,58,016
Total	5,42,78,157	4,98,21,295	10,40,99,452

Households in Bihar

Rural Households	Urban Households	Total Households
1,68,62,940	20,50,625	1,89,13,565

State/UTs in the Eastern Region of India

Bihar	Jharkhand
Odisha	West Bengal

Ganga passes through how many districts in Bihar

The number of districts situated on the bank of the Ganga river in Bihar State is 12. These districts are Buxar, Bhojpur, Saran, Patna, Vaishali, Samastipur, Begusarai, Munger, Khagaria, Katihar, Bhagalpur, Lakhisarai.

How many districts in north Bihar

There are 21 districts For the residents of north Bihar [21 districts of North Bihar (namely 1. West Champaran, 2. East Champaran, 3. Sitamadhi, 4. Sheohar, 5. Muzaffarpur, 6.Vaishali, 7. Saran, 8. Siwan, 9. Gopalganj, 10. Madhubani, 11. Darbhanga, 12. Samastipur,13. Begusarai, 14. Khagaria, 15. Saharsa, 16. Supaul, 17. Medhepura, 18. Araria,19. Katihar, 20. Purnea and 21. Kishangunj

How many districts in south Bihar

There are 17 districts of south Bihar List Patna Nalanda Gaya Bhagalpur Lakhisarai Jehanabad Aurangabad Buxar Bhojpur Rohtas Arwal Munger Banka Nawada Sheikhpura Jamui Kaimur.

List of cities in Bihar by population

This is a list of urban agglomerations and cities (those not included in the Urban Agglomerations), with a population above 100,000 as per the 2011 census in the Indian state of Bihar.

Rank	Name	District	Type*	Population 2011	Male	Female	Population (0-6 years)	Literacy Rate
1	Patna	Patna district	UA	2,046,652	1,087,864	958,788	239,035	84.05
2	Gaya	Gaya district	UA	470,839	249,797	221,042	62,389	85.45
3	Bhagalpur	Bhagalpur district	UA	410,210	218,284	191,926	55,898	80.76
4	Muzaffarpur	Muzaffarpur district	UA	404,817	213,892	190,925	49,260	74.04
5	Darbhanga	Darbhanga district	UA	380,125	196,5739	183,552	47,730	85.07
6	Purnia	Purnia district	UA	310,258	196,573	183,552	47,730	79.09
7	Bihar Sharif	Nalanda district	City	296,889	154,915	141,974	43,646	80.32
8	Arrah	Bhojpur district	City	261,099	139,319	121,780	34,419	83.41
9	Begusarai	Begusarai district	City	251,136	133,931	117,205	37,966	79.35
10	Katihar	Katihar district	UA	240,565	126,834	113,731	32,824	80.09
11	Munger	Munger district	City	213,101	113,173	99,928	29,260	81.83
12	Chhapra	Saran district	UA	212,955	112,280	100,675	29,133	81.01
13	Danapur	Patna district	City	182,214	97,129	85,112	25,092	78.40
14	Bettiah	West Champaran district	UA	156,200	82,663	73,537	22,067	80.89
15	Saharsa	Saharsa district	UA	155,175	82,589	72,586	24,582	77.66
16	Hajipur	Vaishali district	City	147,688	78,047	69,641	20,090	76.80
17	Sasaram	Rohtas district	City	147,396	77,687	69,709	19,363	82.31
18	Dehri	Rohtas district	City	137,068	72,311	64,757	18,372	83.38
19	Siwan	Siwan district	City	134,458	70,670	63,788	17,632	84.65
20	Motihari	East Champaran district	City	125,183	67,438	57,745	16,325	87.20
21	Nawada	Nawada district	UA	118,820	62,361	56,459	16,475	81.80
22	Bagaha	West Champaran district	City	113,012	59,946	53,066	19,070	60.67
23	Buxar	Buxar district	UA	110,608	58,228	52,380	14,938	84.40
24	Kishanganj	Kishanganj district	City	107,076	55,688	51,388	17,017	74.71
25	Sitamarhi	Sitamarhi district	UA	105,924	56,526	49,398	15,032	78.89
26	Jamalpur	Munger district	City	105,221	56,231	48,990	12,298	87.38
27	Jehanabad	Jehanabad district	City	102,456	54,868	47,588	14,516	79.66
28	Aurangabad	Aurangabad district	City	101,520	53,307	48,213	14,292	86.89

How Many villages in Bihar

Structurally Bihar is divided into divisions (Pramandal), districts (Zila), sub-divisions (Anumandal) & circles (Aanchal). There are 45103 Villages in Bihar. The state is divided into 9 divisions, 38 districts, 101 subdivisions and 534 circles. 17 municipal corporations, 84 Nagar Parishads and 151 Nagar Panchayats, for administrative purposes.

Divisions	9
Cities and towns	207
Blocks	534
Villages	45,103
Panchayats	8,406

How Many Block in Bihar

The Indian state of Bihar is divided into 534 CD Block called blocks.

How Many Panchayat in Bihar

In Bihar, there are 9 Divisions, 38 Districts, 101 Sub divisions, 534 Blocks and 8,463 Panchayats.

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How many district in India

in 2022 August, According to the data, there are a total of 780 district compared to 640 registered in 2011. in the Indian census, and 593 registered in 2001. Census of India.

How many subdivisions in India

Currently, there are a total of 102 divisions in India.

How many Panchayats in India

In 2019, there were 630 Zilla Panchayats; 6614 Block Panchayats and 253163 Gram Panchayats in India. There are currently more than 3 million elected representatives (of which more than 1 million are women) for panchayats at all levels.

How many villages in India

There are as many as 597,483 villages in India, of which 82,149 villages have a population of less than 200. Almost half of India’s urban population lives in 115,029 villages with more than 2,000 but less than 10,000 inhabitants.

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