South Kamrup district

South Kamrup District is one of the 35 districts of Indian state of Assam. This district is formed by dividing Kamrup Rural district. It may be mentioned that the constituencies of Palasbari, Chaygaon and Boko constituencies have been included to create the South Kamrup district.^[1]^[2]

Demography

As per Indian census 2011 the newly formed South Kamrup district had a population of 811805.South Kamrup district has six tehsils. These are Palasbari,Boko,Chaygaon,Chamaria,Goroimari,Nagarbera. As per Indian census 2011 these six tehsils had a total of 430231 Hindus & 348070 Muslims. Hindus are 53% of district population,Muslims are 42.88% of district's population. ^[3]

References

Assam topics

Capital: Dispur

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Districts & Divisions	North Assam Division Biswanath Darrang Sonitpur Udalguri Lower Assam Division Baksa Barpeta Bongaigaon Chirang Dhubri Kokrajhar Kamrup Kamrup Metro Goalpara Nalbari South Salmara-Mankachar Central Assam Division Dima Hasao Hojai Karbi Anglong Karbi Anglong (West) Morigaon Nagaon Upper Assam Division Charaideo Dibrugarh Dhemaji Golaghat Jorhat Lakhimpur Majuli Sibsagar Tinsukia Barak Valley Division Cachar Hailakandi Karimganj

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