Champawat district is a district of Uttarakhand state in northern India. The town of Champawat is the administrative headquarters. The district is divided into five tehsils: Barakot, Lohaghat, Pati, Purnagiri, and Champawat. There are 2 Sub Tehsils: Pulla and Munch. The largest and the main city of the district is Tanakpur. Prominent settlements in the district include Dhaun.
Champawat district is part of the eastern Kumaon division of Uttarakhand. It is bounded on the north by Pithoragarh district, on the east by Nepal, on the south by Udham Singh Nagar district, on the west by Nainital district, and on the northwest by Almora district.
it is the second least populous of the 13 districts of Uttarakhand, after Rudraprayag.
Economy In 2006 the Ministry of Panchayati Raj named Champawat one of the country's 250 most backward districts (out of a total of 640 districts). It is one of the three districts in Uttarakhand currently receiving funds from the Backward Regions Grant Fund Programme (BRGF).
Assembly Constituencies Lohaghat Champawat
Demographics , Champawat district has a population of 259,648 roughly equal to the nation of Vanuatu. This gives it a ranking of 579th among the 640 districts of India. The district has a population density of . Its population growth rate over the decade 2001–2011 was 15.63%. Champawat district has a sex ratio of 980 females for every 1000 males, and a literacy rate of 79.83%. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes make up 18.25% and 0.52% of the population respectively.
Indian census, the Champawat district had a population of 224,542, including 216,646 Hindus (96.5%), 6,642 (3.0%) Muslims, and 626 (0.3%) Christians.
The major spoken language by of the district is Kumaoni.
Champawat district: mother-tongue of population, according to the 2011 Indian Census. Mother tongue code Mother tongue People Percentage 002007 Bengali 519 0.2% 006102 Bhojpuri 462 0.2% 006195 Garhwali 561 0.2% 006240 Hindi 50,254 19.4% 006340 Kumauni 203,022 78.2% 006439 Pahari 193 0.1% 006489 Rajasthani 145 0.1% 014011 Nepali 1,266 0.5% 016038 Punjabi 378 0.1% 022015 Urdu 1,474 0.6% – Others 1,374 0.5% Total 259,648 100.0%
See also Jhirkuni, village in Barakot Tahsil
References
External links
Champawat District Map Kumaoni.org - Information on Kumaon Region and Community