Karimganj

Karimganj is a town in the Karimganj District of the Indian state of Assam. It is the administrative headquarters of the district.

Karimganj town is located at 24.87°N, 92.35°W. The area of Karimganj Town is 16.09 km2. It has an average elevation of 13 metres (42 feet).

Demographics
Bengali and Meitei (Manipuri) are the official languages of this place.

As per as the official census of 2011, Karimganj Town had a population of 56,854 of which 28,473 are males while 28,381 are females. Children in the age group of 0 to 6 years were 4,946. Karimganj had a literacy rate of 86.35%, out of which male literacy was 87.91% and female literacy was 84.78%. The sex ratio is 996. There were 12,234 households as of 2011.

Educational institutes
Various educational institutions and Higher secondary are well established and run by the government in karimganj. Among them most notable are- Located at (22.6 km) away from the town.The only first State Govt-Engineering college in the entire Barak valley.
 * Barak Valley Engineering College (BVEC).
 * Karimganj Polytechnic

Some degree colleges-. Player ground- All the college's in Karimganj are partnered (affiliated) to Assam University.
 * Karimganj College
 * Karimganj Law College
 * Ramkrishna Nagar College
 * Rabindra Sadan Girls' College
 * Government Boys' HS School Ground

Religion
Most of the people in the town follow Hinduism, with significant followers of Islam and a small Christian and Jain population.

Politics
Karimganj consists of five assembly constituencies: Karimganj North and Karimganj South, Badarpur, Patharkandi, and Ratabari; all of which are part of Karimganj (Lok Sabha constituency).

Notable people

 * Dwarka Nath Das, former MP of Karimganj (1991-1998)
 * Kripanath Mallah, current MP of Karimganj
 * Bijoy Malakar, current MLA of Ratabari LAC, Karimganj
 * Siddique Ahmed,MLA of Karimganj South