Bihar
State in eastern India
Also known as Behar · Bahar · State of Bihar · Bihar State · Land of Buddha · Land of Mahavira
- Country
- Located in
- India(since 1947)
- , British Raj(until 1947)
- Population
- 104M(2011)
- , 104M(2011)
- Area
- 94,163 km²
- Elevation
- 53 m
- Head of government
- Nitish Kumar(2015–2026)
- , Samrat Choudhary(since 2026)
- Founded
- March 22, 1912
- Time zone
Overview
All data
204 statements · 17% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Male population
- 54.3M(2011)
- Female population
- 49.8M(2011)
- Urban population
- 11.8M(2011) male population: 6,204,307 · female population: 5,553,709 · number of households: 2,050,625
- Rural population
- 92.3M(2011) male population: 48.1M · female population: 44.3M · number of households: 16.9M
- Native label
- बिहार
- Bihar
- Literate population
- 52.5M(2011) male population: 31.6M · female population: 20.9M
- Illiterate population
- 51.6M(2011) male population: 22.7M · female population: 28.9M
- Geoshape
- Data:India/Bihar.map
- Related category
- Category:Bihar-related lists category contains: Wikimedia list article
- Social media followers
- 211,000(October 4, 2025) youtube channel id: UCifuPnp82JGpFucAHgqYuTA
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- 324,180(August 23, 2022) x (twitter) numeric user id: 874241422265769984
- 191,000(August 17, 2025) youtube channel id: UCifuPnp82JGpFucAHgqYuTA
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- 211,000(October 4, 2025) youtube channel id: UCifuPnp82JGpFucAHgqYuTA
- Demonym
- Biohárach
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- Bihari statement is subject of: Bihari people
- Biohárach
- Members / parts
- Patna district
- Nalanda district
- Sheohar district
- Sitamarhi district
- Vaishali district
- East Champaran District
- West Champaran district
- Muzaffarpur district
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- Kaimur district
- Rohtas district
- Buxar district
- Bhojpur district
- Arwal district
- Jehanabad district
- Aurangabad district
- Nawada district
- Gaya district
- Sheikhpura district
- Begusarai district
- Lakhisarai district
- Khagaria district
- Jamui district
- Munger district
- Banka district
- Bhagalpur district
- Kishanganj district
- Araria district
- Katihar district
- Purnia district
- Madhepura district
- Supaul district
- Saharsa district
- Samastipur district
- Madhubani district
- Darbhanga district
- Gopalganj district
- Siwan district
- Saran District
On other databases
59 identifiers linking Bihar across the web's reference databases
- Arab Encyclopedia concept ID2619
- ArchINFORM location ID51304
- BabelNet ID00010356n
- Curlie IDRegional/Asia/India/Bihar/
- Data Commons IDwikidataId/Q1165
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDplace/Bihar
- Encyclopædia Universalis IDbihar
- Facebook usernameiprdbihar
- FIPS 10-4 (countries and regions)IN34
- Freebase ID/m/0290rb
- GeoNames ID1275715
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID1001842
- GND ID4006563-7
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana IDbihar-0
- Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)0010062
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia IDBihar_-_delstat_i_India
- Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)1872237
- Gujarati Vishwakosh entryબિહાર
- Harper's tagbihar
- HASCIN.BR
- Hrvatska enciklopedija ID7534
- INaturalist place ID6894
- Indian census area code (2001)10
- Indian census area code (2011)10
- Instagram usernameiprd_bihar
- Interlingual Index IDi83538
- ISO 3166-2 codeIN-BR
- J9U entity ID987007547811605171
- Joconde location ID2faa3515-5310-416f-843b-7dd57fb52b24
- KBpedia IDBihar
- Know Your Meme slugbihar
- Lex IDBihar
- LGD State or UT Code10
- Library of Congress Authorities IDn79077375
- MDWS place ID005
- Mindat locality ID16177
- Münzkabinett IDregion/527
- Museum-digital place ID13045
- MusicBrainz area ID8b7a43fc-0719-4cf5-b570-00a903a40ec5
- Namuwiki ID비하르
- National Library of Wales Authority IDbihar-india
- Online PWN Encyclopedia ID3877602
- OpenStreetMap relation ID1958982
- Quora topic IDBihar-India
- Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts place ID4004
- SNARC IDQ45299
- Subredditbihar
- TDV Encyclopedia of Islam IDbihar
- VIAF cluster ID243407858
- Wellcome Collection concept IDgsbg6zay
- Who's on First ID85672225
- Wolfram Language entity codeEntity["AdministrativeDivision", {"Bihar", "India"}]
- WordNet 3.1 Synset ID08925053-n
- World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions IDIND-BI
- X (Twitter) topic ID1316567640966524929
- X (Twitter) usernameIPRD_Bihar
- Yale LUX IDplace/c2ece7f6-5698-44b1-99c5-eb7ff3886dc0
- YouTube channel IDUCifuPnp82JGpFucAHgqYuTA
- YSO ID160951