Bengaluru Urban district

Bengaluru Urban district
Bengaluru Urban district
District of Karnataka
	Clockwise from top-left: Brigade Road at night, Dodda Basavana Gudi, Bangalore Palace, Skyline of Bangalore, Vidhana Soudha
	Location in Karnataka
	Coordinates: 12°58′13″N 77°33′37″E / 12.970214°N 77.56029°E
Country	India
State	Karnataka
Headquarters	Bengaluru
Talukas	Bengaluru north; Bengaluru south; Bengaluru east; Anekal;
Government
• Deputy Commissioner	Dayananda K A (IAS)
• Additional Deputy Commissioner	T. N. Krishnamurthy
Area
• Total	2,196 km2 (848 sq mi)
Population (2011)
• Total	9,621,551
• Rank	3rd (India)
• Density	4,400/km2 (11,000/sq mi)
Languages
• Official	Kannada
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
Vehicle registration	Source Bangalore Central (HSR Layout): KA01; Bangalore West (Rajajinagar): KA02; Bangalore East (Kasturinagar): KA03; Bangalore North (Yeshwanthpur): KA04; Bangalore South (Jayanagar): KA05; Jnanabharathi (Bangalore Western Suburbs): KA41; Yelahanka (Bangalore Northern Suburbs): KA50; Electronic City (Bangalore Southern Suburbs): KA51; Krishnarajapuram (Bangalore Eastern Suburbs): KA53; Shantinagara:: KA57 (Only for KSRTC under Bangalore Division, and self-owned BMTC buses); Chandapura (Anekal Taluk, few areas under BBMP) KA59;
GDP (PPP)(2022-23)	$ 300 Billion
Per Capita Income (PPP)(2022-23)	$ 25,461
Nominal GDP (2022-23)	₹9.48254 trillion (US$120.64 billion)
Per Capita Income (Nominal)(2022-23 )	₹780,321 (US$9,927.18)

Bengaluru Urban district is the most densely populated of the thirty-one districts that comprise the Indian state of Karnataka. It is surrounded by the Bengaluru Rural district/Bengaluru North district on the east and north, the Ramanagara district/Bengaluru South district on the west and the Krishnagiri district of Tamil Nadu on the south. Bangalore Urban district came into being in 1986, with the partition of the erstwhile Bangalore district into Bangalore Urban and Bangalore Rural districts. Bangalore Urban has three taluks: Bengaluru City, Yelahanka and Anekal. It has seventeen hoblies, 872 villages, eleven rural habitations, five towns, one tier-three city and one tier-one city, administered by ninety-six Village Panchayats (Grama Panchayitis), ninety-seven Taluk Panchayats (Taluk Panchayitis), five Town Municipal Councils (Purasabes), one City Municipal Council (Nagarasabe) and one City Corporation (Mahanagara Palike).

The district had a population of 6,537,124 of which 88.11% is urban as of 2001. As of Census 2011, its population has increased to 9,621,551, with a sex-ratio of 908 females/males, the lowest in the state and its density is 4,378 people per square km.