Districts and Their Features
Districts and Their Distinctive Features
Jharkhand has 24 districts. The state started with 18 in 2000, added four in 2001 and the last two — Khunti and Ramgarh — on 12 September 2007. No new district has been created since then.
24 districts | Newest — Khunti and Ramgarh, created 12 September 2007
How the district count reached 24
- 2000 — state formed with 18 districts inherited from Bihar
- 2001 — four new districts created, taking the count to 22
- 12 September 2007 — Khunti carved out of Ranchi and Ramgarh out of Hazaribaghबार-बार पूछा जाता है
- Count has stayed at 24 ever since, which makes it a safe factual question
- Every district is grouped into one of the 5 divisions
District records you must memorise
| Record | District | Figure |
|---|---|---|
| Largest by area | West Singhbhum | About 7,224 sq km |
| Smallest by area | Ramgarh | About 1,341 sq km |
| Highest population (2011) | Ranchi | 29,14,253 |
| Lowest population (2011) | Lohardaga | 4,61,790 |
| Highest density (2011) | Dhanbad | 1,316 per sq km |
| Lowest density (2011) | Simdega | 159 per sq km |
| Highest literacy (2011) | Ranchi | 76.06 percent |
| Lowest literacy (2011) | Pakur | 48.82 percent |
Districts by what they are known for
- Dhanbad — coal capital of India, Jharia coalfield, IIT (ISM)
- East Singhbhum — Jamshedpur, the steel city built around Tata Steel
- Bokaro — Bokaro Steel Plant, a public sector steel township
- Deoghar — Baidyanath Dham temple and the Shravani Mela
- Sahibganj — Ganga river port, Rajmahal hills and fossil park
- Latehar — Netarhat plateau and Lodh Falls
- Khunti — Ulihatu, the birthplace of Birsa Munda
- Koderma — long known as the mica belt of India
Demographic pattern behind the districts
- Tribal share is highest in the South Chotanagpur and Kolhan belts
- Khunti, Gumla, Simdega and West Singhbhum have very high Scheduled Tribe proportions
- The Santhal Pargana districts show the lowest literacy figures in the state
- Industrial districts — Dhanbad, Bokaro and East Singhbhum — are the most urbanised
- Ranchi combines the highest population with the highest literacy, an unusual pairing
Sub-regional names worth knowing
- Koyalanchal — the Dhanbad and Bokaro coal belt
- Damin-i-Koh — the historic Santhal settlement tract in Rajmahal hills
- Kolhan — the Ho-majority tract of the Singhbhum districts
- Netarhat — called the queen of Chotanagpur, in Latehar
- Patratu and Panchet — power and dam landmarks in the north-east belt
District headquarters that trip people up
| District | Headquarters |
|---|---|
| West Singhbhum | Chaibasa |
| East Singhbhum | Jamshedpur |
| Seraikela-Kharsawan | Seraikela |
| Palamu | Medininagar (Daltonganj) |
| Bokaro | Bokaro Steel City |
- Several districts do not share a name with their headquarters, and papers exploit exactly that gap
- Chaibasa is both the West Singhbhum district headquarters and the Kolhan division headquarters
- Jamshedpur is the biggest city of the state but is not a division headquarters
- Ranchi is a district headquarters, a division headquarters and the state capital all at once
झारखंड में सबसे नए दो जिले खूंटी और रामगढ़ हैं, दोनों 12 सितंबर 2007 को बने। तब से जिलों की संख्या 24 पर स्थिर है।
Memory hook — Do 2007 wale jile yaad rakho — KRK: Khunti (Ranchi se), Ramgarh (Hazaribagh se). Aur record yaad rakhne ka jod — bada Pashchimi Singhbhum, chhota Ramgarh, bhida Dhanbad, khali Simdega.
Yahan confuse hote hain — Area aur population ke record alag jilon ke hain.
✗ Sabse bada jila — Ranchi | ✓ Area me sabse bada — Pashchimi Singhbhum; population me sabse bada — Ranchi
✗ Sabse kam saksharta — Sahibganj | ✓ Sabse kam saksharta — Pakur
Exam pointer — JSSC CGL, JKCE aur Jharkhand Police me district records seedhe poochhe jaate hain — sabse bada, sabse chhota, sabse ghana. JPSC isi data ko census aur development indicators ke saath jod kar statement form me poochhta hai. Do se teen question ka pakka scope hai.
Ek nazar me
- 24 districts; 18 in 2000, 22 in 2001, 24 since 2007
- Newest — Khunti and Ramgarh, 12 September 2007
- Largest area — West Singhbhum
- Smallest area — Ramgarh
- Most populous — Ranchi; least — Lohardaga
- Densest — Dhanbad; sparsest — Simdega
- Highest literacy — Ranchi; lowest — Pakur
- Coal — Dhanbad; steel — Jamshedpur and Bokaro; mica — Koderma
- Birsa Munda's Ulihatu is in Khunti
- Netarhat and Lodh Falls are in Latehar