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Haridwar district
Hardwar district | |
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.svg) Location in Uttarakhand | |
 Haridwar district | |
| Coordinates: 29°58′N 78°10′E / 29.96°N 78.16°E | |
| Country |  India |
| State | Uttarakhand |
| Headquarters | Haridwar |
| Government | |
| • Type | Zilla |
| • Body | Zilla Panchayath |
| • District collector | Dhiraj Singh Garbiyal IAS |
| Area | |
• Total | 2,360 km2 (910 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 249.7 m (819.2 ft) |
| Population (2011) | |
• Total | 1,890,422 |
| • Density | 801/km2 (2,070/sq mi) |
| Demonym | Haridwari |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Hindi[citation needed] |
| • Native | khari boli |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| Telephone code | 01334 |
| Vehicle registration | UK-08 |
| Website | haridwar |
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Haridwar district (Hindi: [ɦəɾɪd̪waːɾ] ), also spelled Hardwar, is part of Uttarakhand, India that lies in the Doab region, where people traditionally speak Khariboli. It is headquartered at Haridwar which is also its largest city. The district is ringed by the districts Dehradun in the north and east, Pauri Garhwal in the east and the Uttar Pradesh districts of Muzaffarnagar and Bijnor in the south and Saharanpur in the west.
Haridwar district came into existence on 28 December 1988 as part of Saharanpur Divisional Commissionary,[3] On 24 September 1998 Uttar Pradesh Legislative Assembly passed the 'Uttar Pradesh Reorganisation Bill', 1998',[4] eventually the Parliament also passed the Indian Federal Legislation – 'Uttar Pradesh Reorganisation Act 2000', and thus on 9 November 2000,[5] Haridwar became part of the newly formed Uttarakhand (then Uttaranchal), the 27th state of the Republic of India.
As of 2011 it is the most populous district of Uttarakhand (out of 13).[6] Important towns in the district are Haridwar, BHEL Ranipur, Roorkee, Manglaur, Dhandera, Jhabrera, Laksar, Landhaura, and Mohanpur.
- ^ "History of Haridwar". haridwar.nic.in. Archived from the original on 10 December 2007.
- ^ "Haridwar District Uttarakhand, Information Updates of Haridwar District Uttarakhand Uttaranchal India". Euttaranchal.com. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
geowas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Reorganisation Bill passed by UP Govt Archived 7 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine The Indian Express, 24 September 1998.
- ^ Uttarakhand Govt. of India, Official website.
- ^ "District Census 2011". Census2011.co.in. 2011. Retrieved 30 September 2011.