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| leader_name1 = [[Gopalganj Lok Sabha constituency|Gopalganj]]
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| leader_name2 = [[Baikunthpur, Bihar Assembly constituency|Baikunthpur]], [[Barauli, Bihar Assembly constituency|Barauli]], [[Gopalganj Assembly constituency|Gopalganj]], [[Kuchaikote Assembly constituency|Kuchaikote]], [[Bhore Assembly constituency|Bhore]], [[Hathua Assembly constituency|Hathua]]
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'''Gopalganj''' is one of the administrative districts in the Indian state of [[Bihar]]. The district headquarters is the town of [[Gopalganj, Bihar|Gopalganj]], and the district is part of [[Saran Division]].<ref name=":1">{{cite web|url=http://gopalganj.bih.nic.in/places.htm |title=Welcome GOPALGANJ |date=2011-07-21 |publisher=Gopalganj.bih.nic.in |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721163443/http://gopalganj.bih.nic.in/places.htm |archive-date=2011-07-21 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Major languages spoken are [[Hindi]] and [[Bhojpuri language|Bhojpuri]].
==Geography==
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}}</ref> of which 1,267,666 are males while 1,294,346 are females. This gives it a ranking of 163rd in India (out of a total of [[Districts of India|640]]).<ref name="districtcensus"/> Population within the age group of 0 to 6 years was 449,530 which is 17.54% of total population of Gopalganj district.<ref name="districtcensus"/> The district had a population density of {{convert|1260|PD/sqkm|PD/sqmi}}.<ref name="districtcensus"/> Its [[Family planning in India|population growth rate]] over the decade 2001-2011 was 19.02%.<ref name="districtcensus"/> Gopalganj had a [[Literacy in India|literacy rate]] of 65.47% and [[sex ratio]] of 1021 [[Women in India|females]] for every 1000 males, Gopalganj ranks first in terms of sex-ratio (1,021) against the state's 918. 6.35% of the
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At the time of the [[2011 Census of India]], 96.09% of the population in the district spoke [[Bhojpuri language|Bhojpuri]], 1.85% [[Hindi]] and 1.76% [[Urdu]] as their first language.<ref name="languages">{{Cite web |date=2011 |title=Table C-16 Population by Mother Tongue: Bihar |url=https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/10196/download/13308/DDW-C16-STMT-MDDS-1000.XLSX|website=censusindia.gov.in |publisher=[[Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India]]}}</ref>
Based on the 2011 census:
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== Politics ==
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===Village councils===
There are 234 [[Gram panchayat|Gram Panchayats]] in Gopalganj district grouped into 14 blocks. There are a total of 1566 villages in Gopalganj District. There are 169 uninhabited villages (out of 1,566 total villages) in the district of Gopalganj.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Demography {{!}} Website of Gopalganj District {{!}} India|url=https://gopalganj.nic.in/demography/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210801172941/https://gopalganj.nic.in/demography/|archive-date=1 August 2021|access-date=2021-09-06|language=en-US}}</ref>
==Constituencies==
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==Education==
Initially, Gopalganj had little to offer in terms of good quality education to its residents. Presently Schools and colleges in the city are either run by the government or by private trusts and individuals. The schools are each affiliated with either the [[Central Board of Secondary Education|Central Board for Secondary Education]] (CBSE), or the Bihar School Examination Board.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|date=2010-12-03|title=Bihar School Examination Board|url=http://biharboard.bih.nic.in/|access-date=2012-08-24|publisher=Biharboard.bih.nic.in|archive-date=2007-05-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070523133307/http://biharboard.bih.nic.in/|url-status=dead}}</ref> English is the medium of instruction in most private schools; though government run schools offer both English and Hindi. The [[Sainik School Gopalganj|Sainik School]] prepares boys for entry into the National Defence Academy. After completing their secondary education, which involves ten years of schooling, students typically enroll at [[junior college|Higher Secondary School]] in one of the three streams—[[liberal arts|Arts]], [[Commerce]] or [[Science]].
One Government Engineering college
And two Government polytechnic colleges started recently.
Government teacher training college, para medical college and Govt ITI colleges setup recently.
The Bihar Government announce that the new medical college and hospital will be located in Gopalganj.
==Economy==
Gopalganj district is famous for sugar industries. Now three Sugar factories are in running position situated in Sasamusa, Gopalganj City and Sidhwaliya.
Two grain and sugar cane based ethanol plants recently started their production. Many rice mills, milk packaging plants, mustard oil plants, flour mills, cattle seeds plants, ply factory, egg layer firms, cement bricks plants and many more small scale industries are operational in district.
Maximum people depends on agriculture mainly paddy, wheat, sugarcane and vegetables.
Government has allotted industrial area in Gopalganj districts in which many factories are coming in next coming years.
Gopalganj is at the top in Bihar and ranked among the ten highest districts in India among foreign exchanged currency because many people go to the Gulf countries through the district such as Saudi Arabia, Oman, UAE, Bahrain, Iraq, Qatar, Kuwait and Yemen.
Gopalganj is among top ten in per capita income in 38 Districts of Bihar, ranked 7 last year ranked by Niti Ayog.
==Transport==
NH 28 passes through Gopalganj one can find the multiple buses for commuting in state and other state.
[[Siwan Junction railway station]] is the main railway station for Gopalganj.
Thawe station also serves local passenger other small station: Hathua Road, Sasamusa, Sipaya-(Serves Kuchaikote, Khutwania, Dubey Khariya, Vinod Khariya and nearby Villages), Now Thawe to Lucknow,thawe to taranagar and thawe to patna,thawe to gorakhapur train started.
[[Sabeya Airport]], [[Jay Prakash Narayan Airport]] [[Patna]] and [[Gorakhpur Airport|Mahayogi Gorakhnath Airport]], [[Gorakhpur]] are the nearest commercial airports.
Sabeya Airport is now including in government UDAN scheme. Some preliminary paperwork and mapping of the airport area has started, and boundary identification will start.
==Notable people==
* [[Kamla Rai was
* [[Gorakh Rai was
and renowned Politician.He was MLA from Barauni constituency in 1962 ]]
* [[Mukesh Kumar (cricketer)]]
* [[Ram Dulari Sinha]] of [[Indian National Congress]], freedom fighter, former Union-Minister and Former Governor of Kerala, and freedom fighter, first Women to attain master's degree from Bihar and the first woman from Bihar to become Governor
* [[Abdul Ghafoor (politician, born 1918)|Abdul Ghafoor]], former Chief Minister of Bihar, 1973 to 1975
* [[Lalu Prasad Yadav]], former Chief Minister of Bihar and former Rail Minister of India
* [[U. K. Sinha]], Chairman of the [[Securities and Exchange Board of India]]
* [[Anurag Kumar]], Director, IISc.
* [[Pankaj Tripathi]], actor
* [[
*[[Subhash Singh (Bihar politician)|Subhash Singh (politician)]], Politician.
*[[Janak Ram]], Politician.
*[[Amrendra Kumar Pandey]],
* [[Shambhu Sharan Shrivastava]], Politician
* [[Nagina Rai]] Member of parliament from Gopalganj Lok Sabha.
* [[Avinash Tiwary]] Actor
==References==
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