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According to a Forest Survey of India report released in 2012, Odisha has 48,903 km 2 of wild forest, covering 31.41% of the state's total area. The forests are classified into areas of dense forest (7,060 km 2 ), medium dense forest (21,366 km 2 ), open forest (forest without closed canopy ; 20,477 km 2 ) and scrub forest or scrubland (4,734 ...
Tamil Nadu: 5. Bhim Sen Sachar: 12 September 1956 31 July 1957 322 days Punjab: 6. Yeshwant Narayan Sukthankar: 31 July 1957 15 September 1962 5 years, 46 days Maharashtra: 7. Ajudhia Nath Khosla: 16 September 1962 5 August 1966 3 years, 323 days New Delhi: Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan - Khaleel Ahmed (acting) 5 August 1966 11 September 1966 37 ...
Odisha has 485 kilometres (301 mi) of coastline along the Bay of Bengal on its east, from Balasore to Malkangiri. [1] It is the 9th largest state by area , and the 11th largest by population . Odia (formerly known as Oriya ) is the official and most widely spoken language, spoken by 33.2 million according to the 2001 Census.
The geology of Odisha is complex and varied. The state is home to some of the oldest rock formations on the planet. The second oldest rocks on the planet were found in Champua, Kendujhar which are 4.2 billion years old. [11] [12] Odisha is part of two cratonic blocks called North Orissa Craton and the West Orissa Craton.
I have started working on odisha geo stubs in or.wikipedia.org,Thanks.— Ishwar ⊕ ⊗ 05:39, 25 December 2012 (UTC) [ reply ] Devopam ( talk · contribs ) Interested in cleaning up or tidying scattered metadata across Odisha related articles Devopam ( talk ) 11:50, 20 May 2015 (UTC) [ reply ]
Odisha, a state on the eastern coast of India, is divided into 30 administrative geographical units called Districts. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] These 30 districts have been placed under three different revenue divisions to streamline their governance.
Government Autonomous College, Panposh: State-run co-ed undergraduate and postgraduate college located in Panposh of city Rourkela, Odisha, India. The college was established in the year 1961 as Government Science College but later on it was renamed as Government Autonomous College. UGIE, Rourkela Main Campus
Odisha has, therefore, a syncretic mixture of the three dharmic religions as attested by the fact that the Jagannath Temple in Puri is considered to be holy by Hindus, Buddhists and Jains. Presently, the majority of people in the state of Odisha are Hindus. As per the census of 2001, Odisha is the third largest Hindu-populated state (as a ...