- Source: Firozpur district
Firozpur district, also known as Ferozepur district, is one of the twenty-three districts in the state of Punjab, India. Firozpur district comprises an area of 2,190 km2 (850 sq mi).
Firozpur (Ferozepur) is the capital city of the district. It is situated inside ten gates—Amritsari Gate, Wansi Gate, Makhu Gate, Zira Gate, Bagdadi Gate, Mori Gate, Delhi Gate, Magjani Gate, Multani Gate, and Kasuri Gate.
Demographics
According to the 2011 Census the undivided Firozpur district had a population of 2,029,074. This gives it a ranking of 230th in India (out of a total of 640). The district has a population density of 380 inhabitants per square kilometre (980/sq mi). Its population growth rate over the decade 2001–2011 was 16.08%. Firozpur has a sex ratio of 893 females for every 1000 males, and a literacy rate of 69.8%. (This data is before the creation of Fazilka district.)
After bifurcation of Fazilika district, the residual district has a population of 1,001,931. Scheduled Castes made up 42.85% of the population.
= Gender
=The table below shows the sex ratio of Firozpur district through decades.
The table below shows the child sex ratio of children below the age of 6 years in the rural and urban areas of Firozpur district.
= Religion
== Language
=At the time of the 2011 census, 93.01% of the population spoke Punjabi and 5.67% Rajasthani as their first language.
Health
The table below shows the number of road accidents and people affected in Firozpur district by year.
Politics
Administration
The district is administratively into the following tehsils:
Firozpur
Zira
Guru Har Sahai
List of Sub-Tehsils of Firozpur
Makhu
Talwandi Bhai
Mamdot
Mudki
Blocks of district Firozpur
Firozpur
Ghall Khurd
Guru Har Sahai
Makhu
Mamdot
Zira
Vidhan Sabha Seats in Firozpur
Firozpur
Firozpur Rural
Guru Har Sahai
Zira
Notable people
Mohinder Singh Randhawa, a historian, civil servant, botanist, and author
Harvinder Sahota, an Indian American cardiologist, researcher and inventor, known for the invention of Perfusion Balloon Angioplasty known as "Sahota Perfusion Balloon"
Kamaljeet Sandhu, an athlete, first Indian woman to win an individual gold medal in Asian games and receiver of Padma Shri award.
Man Mohan Sondhi, researcher in speech processing and signal processing who worked at Bell Laboratories, famous for his research on echo cancellation.
Bhai Nirmal Singh Khalsa, first Hazoori Ragi to awarded the Padma Shri, highly regarded ragi with knowledge of all 31 Raags of Guru Granth Sahib.
Sada Kaur, Rani of Sarkar-e-Khalsa.
Gerry Whent, founder and first chief executive of Vodafone.
Mahabali Shera, Indian professional wrestler.
Bano Qudsia, a Pakistani novelist, playwright and spiritualist
Verma Malik, an active freedom fighter during the British Raj, a lyricist in bollywood and punjabi movies, poet.
Frederick Currie (cricketer), an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer.
Notes
References
External links
"District Ferozepur". Retrieved 18 October 2007.
Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Ferozepur" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 10 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 281–282.