Champawat district

Champawat district Kali Kumaon
District of Uttarakhand
Clockwise from top-left: Baleshwar Temple, Tanakpur Dam, view of Champawat, Deodars at Banagun, view from Abbott Mount near Lohaghat
Location in Uttarakhand
Champawat district
Coordinates: 29°20′N 80°06′E / 29.33°N 80.10°E / 29.33; 80.10
Country	India
State	Uttarakhand
Division	Kumaon
Headquarters	Champawat
Government
• District collector	Navneet PandeIAS[1]
Area
• Total	1,765.78 km2 (681.77 sq mi)
Population
• Total	259,648
• Density	126/km2 (330/sq mi)
Languages
• Official	Hindi
• Native	Kumaoni
Languages
Time zone	UTC+05:30 (IST)
Vehicle registration	UK 03
Website	champawat.nic.in

Champawat district is a district of Uttarakhand state in northern India. The town of Champawat is the administrative headquarters. The district of Champawat constituted in the year 1997. The district is divided into five tehsils: Barakot, Lohaghat, Pati, Purnagiri, and Champawat. There is 2 Sub Tehsil: Pulla and Munch.^[2] The largest and the main city of the district is Tanakpur.

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.

As of 2011^[update] it is the second least populous of the 13 districts of Uttarakhand, after Rudraprayag.^[3]