Bihar Quiz: Districts, Divisions and Firsts of Bihar

The nine divisions are Patna, Magadh, Tirhut, Saran, Darbhanga, Kosi, Purnia, Bhagalpur and Munger, and the thirty-eight districts are distributed among them.

The Magadh division is administered from Gaya and contains the districts of Gaya, Jehanabad, Arwal, Nawada and Aurangabad.

West Champaran, whose headquarters is Bettiah and which lies in the Tirhut division along the border with Nepal, is the largest district of the state by area; the smallest by area is Sheohar, in the same division.

Sheohar, a small district of the Tirhut division carved out of Sitamarhi, has the least area in the state and also the highest density of population, while Kaimur in the south-west has the lowest density.

Arwal was carved out of Jehanabad district in 2001 and placed in the Magadh division. Its creation is important because Bihar was left with thirty-seven districts when Jharkhand was formed on 15 November 2000, and Arwal raised the number to the present thirty-eight.

Shri Krishna Sinha, remembered across the state as Shri Babu, was the first Chief Minister of Bihar and held the office for a long and formative period, during which the zamindari abolition legislation was taken up.

The Delhi Durbar of December 1911 announced the creation of a separate province, and it came into being on 22 March 1912 with its capital at Patna; the day is observed as Bihar Diwas.

The Munger division, with its headquarters at Munger, has six districts: Munger, Jamui, Khagaria, Lakhisarai, Begusarai and Sheikhpura.

In the 2011 Census, Rohtas district, with its headquarters at Sasaram in the Patna division, recorded the highest literacy rate in Bihar, while Purnia recorded the lowest; the state average of about 61.8 per cent was the lowest among the states.

Jairamdas Daulatram, a Congress leader and a member of the Constituent Assembly, was appointed the first Governor of Bihar after independence and later served as Governor of Assam and as a Union minister.

Patna University was set up on 1 October 1917 and is the oldest university in Bihar and among the oldest in the country; the oldest medical college of the state, Patna Medical College, followed in 1925.