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Alipurduar | |
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  .jpg)   Clockwise from top-left: Evening at Jaldapara National Park, ruins of Buxa Fort, Hut used by Toto aboriginals, Jayanti Hills in Buxa Tiger Reserve, Bhutan gate near Jaigaon | |
.svg) Location of Alipurduar district in West Bengal | |
| Coordinates: 26°29′20″N 89°31′37″E / 26.489°N 89.527°E | |
| Country | India |
| State | West Bengal |
| Division | Jalpaiguri |
| Headquarters | Alipurduar |
| Government | |
| • Subdivisions | Alipurduar Sadar |
| • CD Blocks | Madarihat-Birpara, Alipurduar I, Alipurduar II, Kalchini, Falakata, Kumargram |
| • Lok Sabha constituencies | Alipurduar |
| • Vidhan Sabha constituencies | Alipurduars, Kumargram, Falakata, Madarihat, Kalchini |
| • District Magistrate | Smt. R. Vimala, IAS[1] |
| Area | |
• Total | 3,383 km2 (1,306 sq mi) |
| Population (2011)[2] | |
• Total | 1,491,250 |
| • Density | 440/km2 (1,100/sq mi) |
| • Urban | 307,456 |
| Demographics | |
| • Literacy | 78.57 per cent |
| • Sex ratio | 949 ♂/♀ |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Bengali[3][4] |
| • Additional official | English[3] |
| Time zone | UTC+05:30 (IST) |
| Website | alipurduar |
Alipurduar district is the 20th district in the state of West Bengal, India.[5] The district has its headquarters at Alipurduar. It was made a district by bifurcating Jalpaiguri district in 2014.[6] The district consists of Alipurduar municipality, Falakata municipality and six community development blocks: Madarihat–Birpara, Alipurduar–I, Alipurduar–II, Falakata, Kalchini and Kumargram. The six blocks contain 66 gram panchayats and nine census towns.
- ^ "District Magistrate". Alipurduar District, Government of West Bengal. Retrieved 1 November 2024.
- ^ "District Census Handbook-Jalpaiguri" (PDF). Directorate of Census Operations, West Bengal. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
- ^ a b "Fact and Figures". Wb.gov.in. Retrieved 5 July 2019.
- ^ "52nd Report of the Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities in India" (PDF). Nclm.nic.in. Ministry of Minority Affairs. p. 85. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 May 2017. Retrieved 5 July 2019.
- ^ TNN (21 June 2014). "Roy Alipurduar: Alipurduar a new district on June 25". Timesofindia.indiatimes.com. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
- ^ IANS (25 June 2014). "Alipurduar becomes Bengal's 20th district | Business Standard News". Business Standard. Retrieved 6 April 2020.