Sultanpur district
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Template:India Districts Sultanpur district is a district in the state of Uttar Pradesh in northern India. The district is a part of Faizabad Division. The administrative headquarters of the district is Sultanpur.
Administration
Sultanpur has now five tehsils of Sultanpur Sadar, Kadipur, Lambhua, Baldirai and Jaisinghpur.[1] The Amethi, Musafirkhana, and Gauriganj tehsils are now in Amethi district. District has one municipality, five town areas and twenty two development blocks. Besides Sultanpur city, important towns are Amethi, Chanda, Dostpur, Jagdishpur, Kadipur, Koeripur, Lambhua, Mushafirkhana and Shukul Bazar. Sultanpur is divided into twenty six police stations for the maintenance of law and order.[1]
Languages
Languages spoken by the denizens of the district include Awadhi, a dialect in the Hindi continuum spoken by over 38 million people, mainly in the Awadh region.[2]
Geographic location
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References
- ^ a b "Number of blocks situated in Sultanpur". Administration of Sultanpur. Retrieved 28 September 2012.
- ^ M. Paul Lewis, ed. (2009). "Awadhi: A language of India". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (16th ed.). Dallas, Texas: SIL International. Retrieved 28 September 2011.