Purba Bardhaman district

Purba Bardhaman
District
Clockwise from top-left: 108 Shiva Temple at Nababhat, Ajay River at Katwa, Nava Kailash temple at Kalna, Uddharanpur Ghat, Mosque of Pir Bahram Sakka in Bardhaman
Location of Purba Bardhaman in West Bengal
Country	India
State	West Bengal
Division	Burdwan
Headquarters	Bardhaman
Government
• Lok Sabha constituencies	Bardhaman-Durgapur, Bardhaman Purba, Bishnupur, Bolpur
• Vidhan Sabha constituencies	Bardhaman Dakshin, Bardhaman Uttar, Bhatar, Galsi, Raina, Jamalpur, Memari, Khandaghosh, Katwa, Mangalkot, Ketugram, Ausgram, Kalna, Purbasthali Dakshin, Purbasthali Uttar, Manteswar.
Area
• Total	5,432.69 km2 (2,097.57 sq mi)
Population  (2011)
• Total	4,835,532
• Density	890/km2 (2,300/sq mi)
Demographics
• Literacy	74.73 per cent
• Sex ratio	945
Time zone	UTC+05:30 (IST)
HDI (2004)	0.640[1] (medium)
Average annual precipitation	1442 mm
Website	http://purbabardhaman.gov.in/

Purba Bardhaman district is in the Indian state of West Bengal. Its headquarters is in Bardhaman. It was formed on 7 April 2017 after the division of the previous Bardhaman district. Great revolutionary Rash Behari Bose was born in village Subaldaha in the district of Purba Bardhaman.