Devbhumi Dwarka district


Devbhumi Dwarka district is a district of India located on the southern coast of the Gulf of Kutch in the state of Gujarat. Its headquarters are located in the city of Jamkhambhaliya. The district was created on 15 August 2013 from Jamnagar district.

Talukas (Administrative Divisions)

The district consists of 4 talukas:
  1. Dwarka
  2. Bhanvad
  3. Kalyanpur
  4. Jamkhambhaliya

Demographics

The divided district had a population of 752,484, of which 241,795 lived in urban areas. The residual district had a sex ratio of 947 females per 1000 males. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes made up 50,937 and 9,687 of the population respectively.

Religion

Hindus were 636,991 while Muslims were 112,894.

Language

At the time of the 2011 census, 88.12% of the population spoke Gujarati, 9.35% Kachchhi and 1.63% Hindi as their first language.

Villages