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Tigiria | |
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Block | |
  Tigiria Location in Odisha, India | |
| Coordinates: 20°29′0″N 85°31′0″E / 20.48333°N 85.51667°E | |
| Country | India |
| State | Odisha |
| District | Cuttack |
| NAC | Athagad |
| Named after | Former princely state |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Odia, Hindi, English |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| PIN | 754030 |
| STD code | 06723 |
| Vehicle registration | OD |
| Ethnicity | Odia people |
| Climate | Aw (Köppen) |
| Avg. summer temperature | 45 °C (113 °F) |
| Avg. winter temperature | 10 °C (50 °F) |
| Website | odisha |
Tigiria is a tehsil (block) of Cuttack district. There are 14 (panchayats) with a total of 50 villages under the Tigiria administrative division.[1]
Tigiria is part of the Athagarh Odisha Vidhan Sabha constituency alongside Athagad, Athagarh block and five gram panchayats (Kakhadi, Sankarpur, Badasamantarapur, Mangarajpur and Brahmapur) of the Tangi-Chowdwar block.[2][3]
During the British Raj era, Tigiria was the capital of Tigiria State, one of several princely states of the Eastern States Agency and the most densely populated.[4]