West Singhbhum district
West Singhbhum district or Pashchimi Singhbhum district is one of the 24 districts of Jharkhand state, India. It came into existence on 16 January 1990, when the old Singhbhum district was bifurcated. Chaibasa is the district headquarter.- Type: County with 1,500,000 residents
- Description: district of Jharkhand, India
- Also known as: “distritu de West Singhbhum”, “Singhbhūm”, “West Singbhum”, “West Singhbhum”, and “West Singhbhum (distritu)”
West Singhbhum district
- Categories: district of India and locality
- Location: Jharkhand, Eastern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
22.5° or 22° 30′ north
Longitude
85.5° or 85° 30′ east
Population
1,500,000
Elevation
481 metres (1,578 feet)
Abbreviation
“WSM”
Open location code
7MJ7GG22+22
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=county
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“West Singhbhum district” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “غرب سينغبوم”
- Armenian: “Արևմտյան Սինգհբհում շրջան”
- Asturian: “West Singhbhum”
- Basque: “West Singhbhum barrutia”
- Bengali: “পশ্চিম সিংভূম জেলা”
- Bhojpuri: “पच्छिमी सिंहभूमि जिला”
- Cebuano: “Pashchim Singhbhūm”
- Chinese: “西新奔縣”
- Dutch: “Pashchim Singhbhum”
- Dutch: “Pashchimi Singhbhum”
- Egyptian Arabic: “غرب سينجبوم”
- French: “district de Pashchimi Singhbhum”
- French: “District de Pashchimi Singhbhum”
- German: “Pashchimi Singhbhum”
- German: “West Singhbhum”
- Gujarati: “પશ્ચિમી સિંહભૂમ જિલ્લો”
- Hindi: “पश्चिमी सिंघभूम”
- Hindi: “पश्चिमी सिंहभूम जिला”
- Hindi: “सिंहभूम”
- Italian: “distretto del Singhbhum Occidentale”
- Italian: “Distretto del Singhbhum Occidentale”
- Japanese: “西シングブーム県”
- Kashmiri: “پٔچھِم سِنٛگھ بھوٗم ضِلہٕ”
- Magahi: “पश्चिम सिंहभूम जिला”
- Maithili: “पश्चिमी सिंहभूम जिला”
- Malayalam: “വെസ്റ്റ് സിംഗുഭം ജില്ല”
- Marathi: “पश्चिम सिंगभूम जिल्हा”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Pashchim Singhbhum”
- Nepali: “पश्चिमी सिंहभूम जिल्ला”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “West Singhbhum”
- Norwegian: “West Singhbhum”
- Persian: “بخش غرب سینگهام”
- Russian: “Западный Сингхбхум”
- Sanskrit: “पश्चिम सिङ्गभूम-मण्डलम्”
- Sanskrit: “पश्चिमसिङ्गभूममण्डलम्”
- Santali: “ᱯᱟᱪᱮ ᱥᱤᱝᱵᱷᱩᱢ ᱦᱚᱱᱚᱛ”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Singhbhum occidental”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Singhbhum Occidental”
- Swedish: “Pashchim Singhbhūm”
- Tamil: “மேற்கு சிங்பூம் மாவட்டம்”
- Telugu: “పశ్చిం సింగ్భుం జిల్లా”
- Telugu: “పశ్చిమ సింగ్భూమ్ జిల్లా”
- Urdu: “مغربی سنگھ بھوم ضلع”
- Vietnamese: “Pashchim Singhbhum”
- “पच्छिमी सिंहभूमि जिला”
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