| Raebareli district रायबरेली ज़िला رائے بریلی ضلع |
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Location of Raebareli district in Uttar Pradesh |
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| State | Uttar Pradesh, India |
| Administrative division | Lucknow |
| Headquarters | Raebareli |
| Area | 4,609 km2 (1,780 sq mi) |
| Population | 2,872,330 (2001) |
| Lok Sabha Constituencies | Raebareli |
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Raebareli District (Hindi: रायबरेली ज़िला, Urdu: رائے بریلی ضلع) is a district of Uttar Pradesh state in northern India. The town of Raebareli is the district headquarters. The district is part of Lucknow Division.
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The district had an area of 1748 sq/m. The general aspect of the district is slightly undulating, and the country is beautifully wooded. The soil is remarkably fertile, and the cultivation of a high class. The principal rivers of the district are the Ganges and the Sai: the former skirts it for 54 miles and is everywhere navigable for boats of 40 tons; the latter traverses it from N.W. to S.E. In 1901 the population was 1,033,760, showing a slight decrease during the decade. The principal crops are rice, pulse, wheat, barley, millet and poppy. Rae Bareli town is connected with Lucknow by a branch of the Oudh & Rohilkhand railway, which in 1898 was extended to Benares.
In 2006 the Ministry of Panchayati Raj named Raebareli one of the country's 250 most backward districts (out of a total of 640).[1] It is one of the 34 districts in Uttar Pradesh currently receiving funds from the Backward Regions Grant Fund Programme (BRGF).[1]
According to the 2011 census Raebareli district has a population of 3,404,004,[2] roughly equal to the nation of Panama[3] or the US state of Connecticut.[4] This gives it a ranking of 97th in India (out of a total of 640).[2] The district has a population density of 739 inhabitants per square kilometre (1,910 /sq mi) .[2] Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 18.51 %.[2] Rae Bareli has a sex ratio of 941 females for every 1000 males,[2] and a literacy rate of 69.04 %.[2]
Languages spoken in the district include Awadhi, a vernacular in the Hindi-Urdu continuum spoken by over 38 million people, mainly in the Awadh region.[5]
| Lucknow district | Bara Banki district | |||
| Unnao district | Sultanpur district | |||
| Raebareli district | ||||
| Fatehpur district | Kaushambi district | Pratapgarh district |
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