Chamarajanagar district
district of Karnataka, India
Chamarajanagar district or Chamarajanagara is the southernmost district in the state of Karnataka, India. It was carved out of the original larger Mysore District on 15 August 1997. Chamarajanagar town is the headquarters of this district.
It is the third least populous district in Karnataka (out of 30), after Kodagu and Bangalore Rural.
History
Chamarajanagar was earlier known as Sri Arikottara. In 1825, Krishnaraja Wodeyar III built a large temple of Chamarajeshvara in Dravidian style in memory of his father Chamaraja Wodeyar IX. It is believed that Chamaraja Wodeyar IX, the Wodeyar of Mysuru, was born here, and hence this place was renamed after him.
Geography
Being the southernmost district of Karnataka, Chamarajanagar district borders the state of Tamil Nadu and Kerala. Specifically, it borders Mysore district of Karnataka to the west and north, Mandya and Bengaluru South districts of Karnataka to the north-east, Dharmapuri and Krishnagiri districts of Tamil Nadu to the east, Salem to south-east, Erode districts and Nilgiris district of Tamil Nadu to the south, and to the extreme south-west, there is a very small border with Wayanad district of Kerala.
Most of the district lies in the leeward region of the Nilgiris and consists of mainly semi-arid rain-dependent flatlands along with forested hills.
Demographics
According to the 2011 census Chamarajanagar district has a population of 1,020,791, roughly equal to the nation of Cyprus or the US state of Montana.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Chamarajanagar district” as district of Karnataka, India. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as district of Karnataka, India. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q862912. Authority coordinates are 12.000, 77.300. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1997, 1825 and 2011.
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This entry incorporates text from “Chamarajanagar district” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.