Bangalore Urban district

Bangalore Urban district
District of Karnataka
Bengaluru Urban district
Clockwise from top-left: Brigade Road at night, Dodda Basavana Gudi, Bangalore Palace, Skyline of Bangalore, Vidhana Soudha
Location in Karnataka
Coordinates: 12°58′13″N 77°33′37″E / 12.970214°N 77.56029°E / 12.970214; 77.56029
Country	India
State	Karnataka
Headquarters	Bangalore
Talukas[1]	Bangalore North, Bangalore South, Bangalore East, Yelahanka and Anekal
Government
• Deputy Commissioner	Dayananda K A (IAS)
• Additional Deputy Commissioner	T. N. Krishnamurthy
Area [2]
• Total	2,196 km2 (848 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[2]
• Total	9,621,551
• Rank	3rd (India)
• Density	4,400/km2 (11,000/sq mi)
Languages
• Official	Kannada
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
Vehicle registration	Source[3] Bangalore Central KA 01 Bangalore West KA 02 Bangalore East KA 03 Bangalore North KA 04 Bangalore South KA 05 Jnanabharathi KA 41 Yelahanka KA 50 Electronic City KA 51 K.R.Puram KA 53 Marathalli KA 61 Shantinagara KA 57 (Only for KSRTC, BMTC and autorickshaws) Chandapura KA 59
GDP (PPP)(2022-23)	$ 300 Billion[4]
Per Capita Income (PPP)(2022-23)	$ 25,461[5]
Nominal GDP (2022-23)	₹8.59154 trillion (US$100 billion) [6]
Per Capita Income (Nominal)(2022-23 )	₹760,321 (US$9,100) [7]

Bangalore Urban district is the most densely populated of the thirty-one districts that comprise the Indian state of Karnataka. It is surrounded by the Bangalore Rural district on the east and north, the Ramanagara district on the west and the Krishnagiri district of Tamil Nadu on the south. Bangalore Urban district came into being in 1986, with the partition of the erstwhile Bangalore district into Bangalore Urban and Bangalore Rural districts. Bangalore Urban has three taluks : Bangalore City, Yelahanka and Anekal. It has seventeen hoblies, 872 villages, eleven rural habitations, five towns, one tier-three city and one tier-one city, administered by ninety-six Village Panchayats (Grama Panchayitis), ninety-seven Taluk Panchayats (Taluk Panchayitis), five Town Municipal Councils (Purasabes), one City Municipal Council (Nagarasabe) and one City Corporation (Mahanagara Palike).

The district had a population of 6,537,124 of which 88.11% is urban as of 2001.^[8] As of Census 2011, its population has increased to 9,621,551, with a sex-ratio of 908 females/males, the lowest in the state and its density is 4,378 people per square km.^[9]