Ambala district is one of the 22 districts of Haryana state in the country of India with Ambala town serving as the administrative headquarters of the district. District Ambala lies on the North-Eastern edge of Haryana and borders Punjab and Himachal Pradesh. Ambala district is a part of Ambala Division.

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Ambala district
District of Haryana
Gurudwara Panjokhra Sahib in Ambala
Location in Haryana
Country	India
State	Haryana
Division	Ambala
Headquarters	Ambala
Tehsils	1. Ambala, 2.  Barara, 3.  Naraingarh 4. Ambala Cantt
Area
• Total	1,569 km2 (606 sq mi)
Population  (2011)
• Total	1,128,350
• Density	720/km2 (1,900/sq mi)
• Urban	500,774
Demographics
• Literacy	87.46%
• Sex ratio	885
Time zone	UTC+05:30 (IST)
Lok Sabha constituencies	Ambala (shared with Panchkula and Yamuna Nagar districts)
Vidhan Sabha constituencies	4
Website	http://ambala.nic.in/

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This district falls under the Ambala Lok Sabha constituency, which is a reserved for the Scheduled Caste candidates only. This district also has four Vidhan Sabha constituencies, all of which are part of Ambala Lok Sabha constituency. Those are Ambala City, Ambala Cantt, Mulana and Naraingarh.

Administration of this district falls under the Ambala division and law and order falls under the Ambala Police Range. The district administration has two sub-divisions, Ambala and Naraingarh. District is further subdivided into 4 community development blocks and 7 revenue tehsils. Community development blocks are Ambala, Ambala Cantt, Barara and Naraingarh. Tehsils are Ambala, Ambala Cantt, Barara, Mullana, Saha, Shahzadpur and Naraingarh.^[1]

Located in the Indo-Gangetic Plain, the land is generally fertile and conducive to agriculture. However, primary sector contributes much lesser to the economy of the district than it does to the economy of Haryana.^[2] Small scale industries form the bulk of the industrial landscape in the district. It is one of the largest producers of scientific and surgical instruments in the country and home to a large number of scientific instrument manufacturers due to which it is also referred as Science City .^[3]

According to the 2011 census, Ambala district had a population of 1,128,350^[5] roughly equal to the nation of Cyprus^[6] or the US state of Rhode Island.^[7] It ranks 410th (out of a total of 640) in India in terms of population.^[5] The district has a population density of 720 inhabitants per square kilometre (1,900/sq mi) .^[5] Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 11.23%.^[5] Ambala had a sex ratio of 885 females for every 1000 males,^[5] and a literacy rate of 81.75%. Scheduled Castes make up 26.25% of the population.^[5]

Hindi (In Devanagri Script) is the official languages and thus used for official communication.^[8] At the time of the 2011 Census of India, 84.57% of the population in the district spoke Hindi, 10.95% Punjabi and 2.72% Haryanvi as their first language.^[9]

Religion

Population trends for major religious groups in Ambala district (1941–1961, 2001–2011)^{[lower-alpha 1]}

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Religious group	Population % 1941[14][15]	Population % 1951[15]	Population % 1961[16]	Population % 2001[17]	Population % 2011[18][19]
Hinduism	48.68%	72.20%	71.45%	84.40%	84.65%
Islam	31.73%	2.40%	—	1.70%	1.96%
Sikhism	18.47%	24.60%	24.83%	13.06%	12.25%
Christianity	0.72%	—	—	0.28%	0.33%
Jainism	0.36%	—	—	0.52%	0.43%
Buddhism	0.02%	—	—	0.02%	0.03%
Other / No religion	0.04%	0.8%	3.73%	0.01%	0.35%

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Religious groups in Ambala District (British Punjab province era)

Religious group	1901[20]		1911[21][22]		1921[23]		1931[24]		1941[14]
	Pop.	%	Pop.	%	Pop.	%	Pop.	%	Pop.	%
Hinduism [lower-alpha 2]	510,105	62.52%	380,592	55.16%	370,125	54.31%	346,809	46.68%	412,658	48.68%
Islam	240,710	29.5%	205,203	29.74%	205,750	30.19%	230,837	31.07%	268,999	31.73%
Sikhism	58,073	7.12%	94,471	13.69%	97,614	14.32%	155,555	20.94%	156,543	18.47%
Christianity	4,362	0.53%	7,483	1.08%	5,679	0.83%	7,141	0.96%	6,065	0.72%
Jainism	2,614	0.32%	2,187	0.32%	2,272	0.33%	2,550	0.34%	3,065	0.36%
Zoroastrianism	14	0%	34	0%	30	0%	2	0%	48	0.01%
Judaism	2	0%	0	0%	1	0%	2	0%	4	0%
Buddhism	0	0%	0	0%	5	0%	6	0%	146	0.02%
Others	0	0%	0	0%	1	0%	0	0%	217	0.03%
Total population	815,880	100%	689,970	100%	681,477	100%	742,902	100%	847,745	100%
Note: British Punjab province era district borders are not an exact match in the present-day due to various bifurcations to district borders — which since created new districts — throughout the historic Punjab Province region during the post-independence era that have taken into account population increases.

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Religion in Ambala district

Religious group	2011[18]
	Pop.	%
Hinduism	955,096	84.65%
Sikhism	138,202	12.25%
Islam	22,143	1.96%
Christianity	3,705	0.33%
Others	9,204	0.82%
Total Population	1,128,350	100%

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• Ambala (city)
• Ambala Cantonment (city)
• Shahzadpur (town)
• Naraingarh (city)
• Kurali
• Harbon
• Barara (town)
• Saha
• Badhauli (village)
• Mullana (town)
• Kardhan (urban village)
• Sountli (village)

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