Firozpur district

Firozpur district, also known as Ferozepur district, is one of the twenty-three districts in the state of Punjab, India. Firozpur district comprises an area of 2190 km2.

Firozpur (Ferozepur) is the capital city of the district. It is situated inside ten gates—Amritsari Gate, Wansi Gate, Makhu Gate, Zira Gate, Bagdadi Gate, Mori Gate, Delhi Gate, Magjani Gate, Multani Gate, and Kasuri Gate.

Demographics
According to the 2011 Census the undivided Firozpur district had a population of 2,029,074. This gives it a ranking of 230th in India (out of a total of 640). The district has a population density of 380 PD/sqkm. Its population growth rate over the decade 2001–2011 was 16.08%. Firozpur has a sex ratio of 893 females for every 1000 males, and a literacy rate of 69.8%. (This data is before the creation of Fazilka district.)

After bifurcation of Fazilika district, the residual district has a population of 1,001,931. Scheduled Castes made up 42.85% of the population.

Gender
The table below shows the sex ratio of Firozpur district through decades.

The table below shows the child sex ratio of children below the age of 6 years in the rural and urban areas of Firozpur district.

Language
At the time of the 2011 census, 93.01% of the population spoke Punjabi and 5.67% Rajasthani as their first language.

Administration
The district is administratively into the following tehsils:


 * Firozpur
 * Zira
 * Guru Har Sahai

List of Sub-Tehsils of Firozpur
 * Makhu
 * Talwandi Bhai
 * Mamdot
 * Mudki

Blocks of district Firozpur
 * Firozpur
 * Ghall Khurd
 * Guru Har Sahai
 * Makhu
 * Mamdot
 * Zira

Vidhan Sabha Seats in Firozpur
 * Firozpur
 * Firozpur Rural
 * Guru Har Sahai
 * Zira

Notable people

 * Mohinder Singh Randhawa, a historian, civil servant, botanist, and author
 * Harvinder Sahota, an Indian American cardiologist, researcher and inventor, known for the invention of Perfusion Balloon Angioplasty known as "Sahota Perfusion Balloon"
 * Kamaljeet Sandhu, an athlete, first Indian woman to win an individual gold medal in Asian games and receiver of Padma Shri award.
 * Man Mohan Sondhi, researcher in speech processing and signal processing who worked at Bell Laboratories, famous for his research on echo cancellation.
 * Bhai Nirmal Singh Khalsa, first Hazoori Ragi to awarded the Padma Shri, highly regarded ragi with knowledge of all 31 Raags of Guru Granth Sahib.
 * Sada Kaur, Rani of Sarkar-e-Khalsa.
 * Gerry Whent, founder and first chief executive of Vodafone.
 * Mahabali Shera, Indian professional wrestler.
 * Bano Qudsia, a Pakistani novelist, playwright and spiritualist
 * Verma Malik, an active freedom fighter during the British Raj, a lyricist in bollywood and punjabi movies, poet.
 * Frederick Currie (cricketer), an English first-class cricketer and British Army officer.