Durg district


Durg district is a district situated in Chhattisgarh, India. The district headquarters is Durg. The district covers an area of 2,238 km². As of 2011 it is the second most populous district of Chhattisgarh, after Raipur.
The district is home to two important religious sites. The principal Hindu temple, the Ganga Maiyaat Jhalmala, Jain shrine of Uwasaggaharam Parshwa Teerth at Nagpura, attract pilgrims from all over India. The Langurveer Mandir is one and only Hindu Temple Devoted to God Langoorveer in India situated in Durg.
The town of Bhilai is home to the Bhilai Steel Plant.
now durg has been divided into 3 major district namely Durg, Balod and Bemetara.
The present collector of Durg is Dr. Sarveshwar Narendra Bhure.

Geography

Durg is surrounded by the following districts:
1. Bemetara to the north.
2. Balod to the south.
3. Raipur to the east.
4. Dhamtaru to the south east, and
5. Rajnandgaon to the west.

Cities in Durg

According to the 2011 census Durg district has a population of 3,343,872, roughly equal to the nation of Uruguay or the US state of Connecticut. This gives it a ranking of 100th in India. The district has a population density of . Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 18.95%. Durg has a sex ratio of 988 females for every 1000 males, and a literacy rate of 79.69%.

Languages

At the time of the 2011 Census of India, 92.69% of the population in the district spoke Chhattisgarhi, 1.51% Telugu, 1.43% Odia, 1.23% Marathi, 0.73% Punjabi and 0.71% Bengali as their first language.
Vernaculars spoken include Chhattisgarhi and written in the Devanagari script.