Haryana Quiz: Districts, Divisions and Firsts of Haryana

Haryana is administered as six revenue divisions, namely Ambala, Rohtak, Hisar, Gurugram, Karnal and Faridabad, each headed by a Divisional Commissioner of the Indian Administrative Service who supervises the Deputy Commissioners of the districts under that division.

The Government of Haryana notified Charkhi Dadri, carved out of Bhiwani district, as the twenty-second district of the state on 1 December 2016, and it remains the newest district.

Mahendragarh is the one district of Haryana whose headquarters does not sit in the town after which the district is named: its administration works from Narnaul, while Mahendragarh town is a tehsil headquarters within the same district.

Kaithal belongs to the Karnal division along with Karnal and Panipat, and not to the Ambala division. The Ambala division is made up of four districts, Ambala, Kurukshetra, Panchkula and Yamunanagar, so Options A, B and C are all part of it and cannot be the answer.

Sirsa, in the south-west of the state on the Punjab and Rajasthan borders, is the largest district of Haryana by area and also the least densely peopled.

Charkhi Dadri was carved out of Bhiwani district and notified as the twenty-second district of Haryana on 1 December 2016; both districts now lie in the Rohtak division.

In the Census of 2011 Faridabad was the most populous district of Haryana and also the most densely peopled, because the district is an industrial city of the National Capital Region rather than a largely rural district.

Within four years of its formation Haryana became the first state in India to carry electricity to every one of its villages, in 1970, and the achievement appears in almost every list of the state's firsts.

Rao Birender Singh was the first Speaker of the Haryana Vidhan Sabha when the House was constituted in 1966, and he left the chair in 1967 to become Chief Minister, the first non-Congress Chief Minister of the state.

Yamunanagar is the only district of Haryana that touches Uttarakhand, which it meets in the north-east where the Yamuna leaves the hills and becomes the boundary of the state.

Palwal was separated from Faridabad district in 2008 and became the twenty-first district of Haryana; it now belongs to the Faridabad division along with Faridabad and Nuh.

The Faridabad division, one of the two divisions created after the original four, is made up of these three districts of the south-east of the state, all of which lie in the National Capital Region.