Kannauj district

Kannauj district
District of Uttar Pradesh
Annapurna Temple, Tirwa
Location of Kannauj district in Uttar Pradesh
Country	India
State	Uttar Pradesh
Division	Kanpur
Headquarters	Kannauj
Government
• Lok Sabha constituencies	Kannauj (Lok Sabha constituency)
• Vidhan Sabha constituencies	1. Chhibramau 2. Tirwa 3. Kannauj
Area
• Total	1,993 km2 (770 sq mi)
Population  (2011)
• Total	1,656,616[1]
Time zone	UTC+05:30 (IST)
Website	http://kannauj.nic.in/

Kannauj district is an administrative district of Uttar Pradesh state in northern India, along the river Ganges. The historic town of Kannauj, northwest of Kanpur, is the administrative center. The district was carved out of Farrukhabad district on 18 September 1997. The native dialect of this district is Kannauji.