Kozhikode district: 2344 sq km, 4 taluks, 70 panchayats and 13 Assembly constituencies
Background
Kozhikode district has a total area of 2344 Sq.Kms, which accounts for six percentage of the total area of the state.
Of this, 2004 Sq. Kms are rural area and 340 Sq. Kms urban.
The district consists of 2 revenue divisions (Vadakara and Kozhikode), 4 Taluks, 12 Blocks, 70 panchayats and 118 villages.
The four taluks are Kozhikode, Vadakara, Koyilandy and Thamarassery.
It has 7 municipalities and 1 corporation, Kozhikode.
The district comprises two parliamentary constituencies and 13 assembly constituencies; the 2011 census put its population at 30,86,293.
In plain words
Taluk Sub-division of a district — A taluk groups villages within a district; Kozhikode has four of them.
Revenue division Group of taluks in a district — Kozhikode district has two revenue divisions, Vadakara and Kozhikode.