District in Punjab, India
Firozpur district, also known as Ferozepur district, is one of the twenty-three districts in the state of Punjab, India. Firozpur district comprises an area of 2,190 km2 (850 sq mi).
Firozpur (Ferozepur) is the capital city of the district. It is situated inside ten gates—Amritsari Gate, Wansi Gate, Makhu Gate, Zira Gate, Bagdadi Gate, Mori Gate, Delhi Gate, Magjani Gate, Multani Gate, and Kasuri Gate.
Demographics
According to the 2011 Census the undivided Firozpur district had a population of 2,029,074.[1] This gives it a ranking of 230th in India (out of a total of 640). The district has a population density of 380 inhabitants per square kilometre (980/sq mi). Its population growth rate over the decade 2001–2011 was 16.08%. Firozpur has a sex ratio of 893 females for every 1000 males, and a literacy rate of 69.8%. (This data is before the creation of Fazilka district.)[2]
After bifurcation of Fazilika district, the residual district has a population of 1,001,931. Scheduled Castes made up 42.85% of the population.[3]
Gender
The table below shows the sex ratio of Firozpur district through decades.
The table below shows the child sex ratio of children below the age of 6 years in the rural and urban areas of Firozpur district.
Religion
Language
Languages of Firozpur district (2011)[13][d]
Others (1.32%)
At the time of the 2011 census, 93.01% of the population spoke Punjabi and 5.67% Rajasthani as their first language.[13]
Politics
Administration
The district is administratively into the following tehsils:[1]
List of Sub-Tehsils of Firozpur
Blocks of district Firozpur
Vidhan Sabha Seats in Firozpur
Notable people
- Mohinder Singh Randhawa, a historian, civil servant, botanist, and author
- Harvinder Sahota, an Indian American cardiologist, researcher and inventor, known for the invention of Perfusion Balloon Angioplasty known as "Sahota Perfusion Balloon"
- Kamaljeet Sandhu, an athlete, first Indian woman to win an individual gold medal in Asian games and receiver of Padma Shri award.
- Man Mohan Sondhi, researcher in speech processing and signal processing who worked at Bell Laboratories, famous for his research on echo cancellation.
- Bhai Nirmal Singh Khalsa, first Hazoori Ragi to awarded the Padma Shri, highly regarded ragi with knowledge of all 31 Raags of Guru Granth Sahib.
- Sada Kaur, Rani of Sarkar-e-Khalsa.
- Gerry Whent, founder and first chief executive of Vodafone.
- Mahabali Shera, Indian professional wrestler.
- Bano Qudsia, a Pakistani novelist, playwright and spiritualist
- Verma Malik, an active freedom fighter during the British Raj, a lyricist in bollywood and punjabi movies, poet.
- Frederick Currie (cricketer), an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer.
Notes
References
- ^ a b Population - Firozpur Online
- ^ "District Census Hand Book – Firozpur" (PDF). Census of India. Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India.
- ^ "Demography | District Ferozepur, Government of Punjab | India". Retrieved 19 October 2022.
- ^ "District-wise Decadal Sex ratio in Punjab". Open Government Data (OGD) Platform India. 21 January 2022. Retrieved 20 November 2023.
- ^ "Open Government Data (OGD) Platform India". 21 January 2022.
- ^ a b "Table C-01 Population by Religious Community: Punjab". censusindia.gov.in. Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India.
- ^ "Census of India 1901. [Vol. 17A]. Imperial tables, I-VIII, X-XV, XVII and XVIII for the Punjab, with the native states under the political control of the Punjab Government, and for the North-west Frontier Province". 1901. p. 34. JSTOR saoa.crl.25363739. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
- ^ "Census of India 1911. Vol. 14, Punjab. Pt. 2, Tables". 1911. p. 27. JSTOR saoa.crl.25393788. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
- ^ Kaul, Harikishan (1911). "Census Of India 1911 Punjab Vol XIV Part II". p. 27. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
- ^ "Census of India 1921. Vol. 15, Punjab and Delhi. Pt. 2, Tables". 1921. p. 29. JSTOR saoa.crl.25430165. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
- ^ "Census of India 1931. Vol. 17, Punjab. Pt. 2, Tables". 1931. p. 277. JSTOR saoa.crl.25793242. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
- ^ a b India Census Commissioner (1941). "Census of India, 1941. Vol. 6, Punjab". p. 42. JSTOR saoa.crl.28215541. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
- ^ a b "Table C-16 Population by Mother Tongue: Punjab". censusindia.gov.in. Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India.
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