Kapurthala district is a district of Punjab state in northern India. The city of Kapurthala is the district headquarters.
Kapurthala District is one of the smallest districts of Punjab in terms of both area and population, with 815,168 people by the 2011 census. The district is divided into two noncontiguous parts, the main Kapurthala-Sultanpur Lodhi portion and the Phagwaratehsil or block.[citation needed]
The Kapurthala-Sultanpur Lodhi part lies between north latitude 31° 07' and 31° 22' and east longitude 75° 36'. In the north it is bound by Hoshiarpur, Gurdaspur, and Amritsar districts, in the west by the Beas River and Amritsar district, and in south by the Sutlej River, Jalandhar district, and Hoshiaripur district.
Phagwa tehsil lies between north latitude 31° 22' and east longitude 75° 40' and 75° 55'. Phagwara lies on the National Highway No 1, and the tehsil is much more industrially developed than the remainder of Kaurthala District. Phagwa is situated at a distance of 19 kilometres (12 mi) southeast of Jalandhar, and the tehsil is bounded on two sides by Jalandhar District whereas north by Hoshiarpur district and east by S B S nagar district.
The district has three subdivisions/tehsils: Kapurthala, Phagwara, and Sultanpur Lodhi. The total area of the district is 1,633 km (1,015 mi) of which 909.09 km2 (351.00 sq mi) is in Kapurthala tehsil, 304.05 km2 (117.39 sq mi) is in Phagwara tehsil and 451.0 km2 (174.1 sq mi) is in Saltanpur Lodu tehsil. The economy of the district is still predominantly agricultural.
According to the 2011 census Kapurthala district has a population of 815,168,[1] roughly equal to the nation of Comoros[2] or the US state of South Dakota.[3] This gives it a ranking of 481st in India (out of a total of 640).[1] The district has a population density of 501 inhabitants per square kilometre (1,300/sq mi).[1] Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 8.37%.[1] Kapurthala has a sex ratio of 912 females for every 1000 males, and a literacy rate of 80.2%. Scheduled Castes made up 33.94% of the population.[1]
Note: British Punjab province era district borders are not an exact match in the present-day due to various bifurcations to district borders — which since created new districts — throughout the historic Punjab Province region during the post-independence era that have taken into account population increases.
The table below shows the numbers of different religious groups in the urban areas of Kapurthala district, through the years.[14][15][16][17][18][19]
Absolute numbers of various religious groups in urban areas of Kapurthala district by census year[20]
At the time of the 2011 census, 91.20% of the population spoke Punjabi and 7.23% Hindi as their first language.[21]
Health
According to the National Blindness and Visual Survey India 2015-19, 11.53% people in Kapurthala district above the age of 50 were visually impaired.[22]
The table below shows the data from the district nutrition profile of children below the age of 5 years, in Kapurthala, as of year 2020.
District nutrition profile of children under 5 years of age in Kapurthala, year 2020
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Indicators
Number of children (<5 years)
Percent (2020)
Percent (2016)
Stunted
13,534
28%
35%
Wasted
4,931
10%
23%
Severely wasted
1,328
3%
11%
Underweight
9,973
21%
27%
Overweight/obesity
1,313
3%
1%
Anemia
32,889
76%
61%
Total children
48,111
The table below shows the district nutrition profile of Kapurthala of women between the ages of 15 to 49 years, as of year 2020.
District nutritional profile of Kapurthala of women of 15-49 years, in 2020[24]
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