Ambiguous Names
The names of the 640 districts are mostly unique. There are some exceptions:
- Within India five names are ambiguous, representing 10 districts: (Aurangabad district, Bihar, Aurangabad district, Maharashtra; Bijapur district, Chhattisgarh, Bijapur district, Karnataka; Bilaspur district, Chhattisgarh, Bilaspur district, Himachal Pradesh; Hamirpur district, Himachal Pradesh, Hamirpur district, Uttar Pradesh; Pratapgarh district, Rajasthan, Pratapgarh district, Uttar Pradesh).
- Seven districts share names with districts in other countries in South Asia: Bhojpur district, Bihar versus Bhojpur District, Nepal; Daman district, India vs. Daman District, Afghanistan, Ghaziabad District, Uttar Pradesh vs. Ghaziabad District, Afghanistan; Gopalganj district, Bihar vs. Gopalganj District (Bangladesh); Hyderabad district, Andhra Pradesh vs Hyderabad District, Pakistan; Lalitpur district, Uttar Pradesh vs Lalitpur District, Nepal; Poonch district, Jammu and Kashmir, vs. Poonch district, Pakistan
- One outside South Asia: Mansa district, Punjab, Mansa District, Zambia
The following tables list the population details of various states. The columns include the hierarchical administrative subdivision codes, the district name, district headquarters, 2001 census population, area in square kilometres, and the population density per square kilometre. Some districts that are entirely urban (such as Mumbai City) or very small, such as Yanam in Pondicherry do not have a separate location as district headquarters, and hence are omitted in this table.
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