Gopalganj District, India

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Gopalganj is an administrative district in the state of Bihar in India. The district headquarters are located in the town of Gopalganj, and the district is a part of Saran Division. The district occupies an area of 2033 km² and has a population of 2,149,343 (as of 2001).

Headquarters: Gopalganj
Area: 2,033 km?
Population: Total: 1704310 Rural: 1607444 Urban: 96866
Sub Divisions: Gopalganj, Hathua
Blocks: Bhore, Gopalganj, Manjha, Uchakagaon, Kuchaikot, Kateya, Vijayeepur, Barauli, Hathua, Baikunthpur, Phulwaria, Thawe, Panchdevari, Sindhwalia
Agriculture: Paddy, Wheat, Maize
Industry: Sugar factories. Vegetable Oil Mill.
Rivers: Gandak

[edit] Business and Trade

Gopalganj is an important agricultural center in North Bihar. Being an important district in the region, it has several secondary and tertiary industries based on agriculture, such as cold-storages (notably, the Apna Cold Storage set up in the 70's by propreitor Sh. Phuldeo Prasad).

[edit] Attractions

Although it is a small town, Gopalganj has several cinema theaters (5 in number, notably among them the Junta Cinema with a seating capacity of over 800 people), and also small hotels and restaurants. Recently, the trend of internet cafe's has caught up here.

krishna talkies is in gopalganj.in hajiya pur.near sp.residense.hajiyapur is near the town is a gentle and rich village, we cant say it village but it is a little swet town it self.this is a village of rich people.brahmin r reach here some of them are Ramanuj Tiwari, ramesh pandey, satynarayan dubey, satish pandey, and a lot more an another community is here that is bhumihar some of rich person fr that community are mohan singh, omprakash singh, and many more. in gopalanj, surendra singh g start khadi and gramodyog organisation for devloping of the dist.

[edit] See also

Districts of Bihar

Divisions and Districts of Bihar, India
Bhagalpur: Banka \| Bhagalpur
Darbhanga: Begusarai \| Darbhanga \| Madhubani \| Samastipur
Kosi: Madhepura \| Saharsa \| Supaul
Magadh: Arwal \| Aurangabad \| Gaya \| Jehanabad \| Nawada
Munger: Jamui \| Khagaria \| Munger
Patna: Bhojpur \| Kaimur \| Patna \| Rohtas \| Nalanda
Purnia: Araria \| Katihar \| Kishanganj \| Lakhisarai \| Purnia \| Sheikhpura
Saran: Gopalganj \| Saran \| Siwan
Tirhut: East Champaran \| Muzaffarpur \| Sheohar \| Sitamarhi \| Vaishali \| West Champaran

shahabudin belongs not from gopalganj. He belongs from Siwan Nawada is one of very rich and educated village of the district kaithawalia is the more devloped area in gopalganj. satyajit ranjan(sanish)