Ayodhya division (formerlyFaizabad division) is one of the 18administrative geographical units (i.e. division) of the northernIndianstate ofUttar Pradesh.Ayodhya city is the administrative headquarters of the division.[1] The government of Uttar Pradesh approved the renaming of the Faizabad division to Ayodhya division in November 2018.[2]
The division currently consists of the following 5districts:-[3]
The2011 census did not use the new organisation. The districts at the time consisted of Barabanki,Faizabad (now calledAyodhya), Ambedkar Nagar, and Sultanpur.[4] The latter had different sub-districts than now.
| Ayodhya division: mother-tongue of population, according to the 2011 Census.[4] | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mother tongue code | Mother tongue | Districts | Ayodhya division | ||||
| Bara Banki | Ayodhya | Ambedkar Nagar | Sultanpur | Total people | Percentage | ||
| 002007 | Bengali | 635 | 584 | 303 | 597 | 2,119 | 0.02% |
| 004001 | Dogri | 0 | 831 | 0 | 0 | 831 | 0.01% |
| 006030 | Awadhi | 68,876 | 333,602 | 256,822 | 888,371 | 1,547,671 | 12.98% |
| 006102 | Bhojpuri | 2,141 | 804 | 39,100 | 2,889 | 44,934 | 0.38% |
| 006142 | Chhattisgarhi | 217 | 788 | 490 | 2,700 | 4,195 | 0.04% |
| 006240 | Hindi | 2,984,773 | 2,050,978 | 1,905,077 | 2,781,822 | 9,722,650 | 81.52% |
| 015043 | Odia | 84 | 557 | 504 | 628 | 1,773 | 0.01% |
| 016038 | Punjabi | 1,199 | 763 | 362 | 887 | 3,211 | 0.03% |
| 019014 | Sindhi | 0 | 2,432 | 4 | 28 | 2,464 | 0.02% |
| 022015 | Urdu | 200,893 | 77,484 | 193,932 | 116,980 | 589,289 | 4.94% |
| 028001 | Arabic/Arbi | 170 | 38 | 474 | 391 | 1,073 | 0.01% |
| 040001 | English | 763 | 53 | 42 | 39 | 897 | 0.01% |
| – | Others | 948 | 2,082 | 778 | 1,785 | 5,593 | 0.05% |
| Total | 3,260,699 | 2,470,996 | 2,397,888 | 3,797,117 | 11,926,700 | 100.00% | |
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