Panipat district


Panipat district is one of the 22 districts of Haryana in north India. The historical town of Panipat is the administrative headquarters of the district. The district occupies an area of, making it the nineteenth largest in the state with Gurugram and Panchkula following it.

History

Panipat district was carved out from the erstwhile Karnal district on 1 November 1989. On 24 July 1991 it was again merged with Karnal district. On 1 January 1992 it again became a separate district.

Divisions

The district is divided into two sub-divisions:
These sub-divisions are further divided into three tehsils:
There are four Vidhan Sabha constituencies in this district:
Panipat district is a part of the Karnal Lok Sabha constituency.

Demographics

According to the 2011 census Panipat district has a population of 1,205,437, roughly equal to the nation of Bahrain or the US state of New Hampshire. This gives it a ranking of 396th in India. The district has a population density of . Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 24.60%. Panipat has a sex ratio of 864 females for every 1000 males, and a literacy rate of 75.94%.
At the time of the 2011 Census of India, 92.14% of the population in the district spoke Hindi, 6.09% Punjabi and 0.79% Urdu as their first language.

Education

There are several engineering colleges in Panipat district: