Anantnag is a district

District

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 in the state

States and territories of India

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 of Jammu and Kashmir

Jammu and Kashmir

Jammu and Kashmir is the northernmost state of India. It is situated mostly in the Himalayan mountains. Jammu and Kashmir shares a border with the states of Himachal Pradesh and Punjab to the south and internationally with the People's Republic of China to the north and east and the...

 in north-western India

India

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. It is one of eight districts which make up the Kashmir Valley. The district headquarter is Anantnag

Anantnag

Anantnag , a city and a municipality in Anantnag district in the state of Jammu & Kashmir, India. Anantnag is regarded as the commercial and financial capital of the valley of Kashmir...

. As of 2011 it is the third most populous district of Jammu and Kashmir (out of 22), after Jammu

Jammu District

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 and Srinagar

Srinagar District

For other uses, see Srinagar .Area141 km2Population900,000 Population density6383/km2 Situated at the center of the Kashmir valley, Srinagar is the most populous district in the state of Jammu and Kashmir,Indian Administered Kashmir and is home to the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir For...

.

Administration

Anantnag district comprises these tehsil

Tehsil

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s:

• Kokernag Tehsil
• Shangus Tehsil
• Anantnag Tehsil (town)
• Bijbehara Tehsil
• Doru Tehsil
• Pahalgam Tehsil
• Qazigund Tehsil (under process).

This district consists of 7 blocks: Breng, Shangus, Achabal, Dachnipora, Qazigund, Khoveripora and Shahabad. Each block consists of a number of panchayats. This district consists of many tourist places viz: Achabal, Kokernag, Verinag, Phalgam, out of these Phalgam is the most famous place just 50 km from Anantnag Town.

One of the most famous shrines in Hinduism,dedicated to the god Shiva,(Amarnath yatra) is located in Phalgam.

Politics

Anantnag District has 7 assembly constituencies: Anantnag, Devsar, Verinag, Kokernag, Shangus, Bijbehara and Pahalgam.

Demographics

According to the 2011 census

2011 census of India

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 Anantnag district has a population

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 of 1,070,144, roughly equal to the nation of Cyprus

Cyprus

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 or the US state of Rhode Island

Rhode Island

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. This gives it a ranking of 425th in India (out of a total of 640

Districts of India

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).
The district has a population density of 375 PD/sqkm . Its population growth rate

Family planning in India

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 over the decade 2001-2011 was 37.48 %. Anantnag has a sex ratio

Sex ratio

Sex ratio is the ratio of males to females in a population. The primary sex ratio is the ratio at the time of conception, secondary sex ratio is the ratio at time of birth, and tertiary sex ratio is the ratio of mature organisms....

 of 937 females

Women in India

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 for every 1000 males, and a literacy rate

Literacy in India

Literacy in India is key for socio-economic progress, and the Indian literacy rate grew to 74.04% in 2011 from 12% at the end of British rule in 1947. Although this was a greater than sixfold improvement, the level is well below the world average literacy rate of 84%, and India currently has the...

 of 64.32 %.

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