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Folklore & song
Six attributed traditions: Salhesh, Lorik–Chanda, Reshma–Chauharmal, Sama-Chakeva, Bihula–Bishahari and Maithili seasonal songs.
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Per-record terms and eligibility remain attached. The local research edition includes labelled rights-held records; a public-origin build excludes them.
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Craft & observance
Selected GI products from individual registry records, and the four-day sequence of Chhath.
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Travel & footfall
Reported tourist arrivals in Bihar and Rajgir, with annual and partial-year records kept separate.
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Education & living standards
Historical literacy benchmarks, dated per-capita income and the multidimensional poverty evidence.
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Elections & representation
Provisional 2025 turnout and a local research reading of ADR’s analysis of winning candidates.
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Rain & rivers
Bihar’s reported through-August rainfall and separate full-year 2025 DES totals, with source normals.
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Cinema & policy
Six general film-subsidy tiers from the official Bihar corporation’s policy table.
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1 March 2026 · modelled
Population projections
All 38 published UNFPA district total projections with 2021 model benchmarks, exact source pages, dates and limitations. The state input and the difference of 997 people in district totals remain explicit.
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The publication permits reproduction with source acknowledgement. Projections are not a Census enumeration.
2025 election · 2024–25 / 2025–26 financial and crop years
Bihar statistical notebook
Eight eligible PIB/DES records: provisional election turnout, current/constant-price GSDP, per-capita income and makhana second advance estimates. Held records are excluded.
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Per-record source terms retained. Public eligibility does not turn provisional or advance estimates into final observations.
2021 geography
Bihar district geometry
38 source polygons, original shape identifiers and explicit district crosswalk. Approximate exploratory geography.
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ODbL 1.0; preserve attribution and share-alike terms.
2021 geometry
Geographic measurements
76 calculated observations: geodesic map area and east–west envelope span. Not official administrative areas or travel distances.
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ODbL 1.0, derived from the geographic database.
2011
Census population extract
38 district total/rural/urban counts, literacy and source-published density. Champaran population corrections are disclosed. Economic and crop fields carry their own periods.
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Census via Bihar DES, with source-specific notices; do not apply one licence to all fields.
2001–2020
NASA point climatology
38 representative points; monthly means and model extrema, sampling coordinates, exact API queries and caveats.
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NASA data-use policy; CC0 where no contrary marking applies. Attribution retained.
1:10 million cartography
River centre lines
Five named source line features intersect the Bihar shapes. Not a complete river inventory.
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Natural Earth public-domain data.
Other factbook layers
The district pages also carry 2024 ODOP designations, 2024–25 crop output, historical IMD rainfall normals and dated protected-heritage records. Their source terms differ. The register records unclear or permission-based reuse terms; the original PDFs are not redistributed as freely licensed assets.
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