[1][3] The district occupies an area of 2,522 square kilometres (974 sq mi),[1] and had a population of 2,470,996 in the 2011 census.

[7] The district had a population density of 1,054 inhabitants per square kilometre (2,730/sq mi).

Awadhesh Prasad of the Samajwadi Party is the sitting MP of Faizabad Lok Sabha constituency.

[9] Three of the five legislative assembly seats are held by the BJP and two by the Samajwadi Party.

Ved Prakash Gupta (BJP) is the MLA for Ayodhya, Ram Chandra Yadav (BJP) for Rudauli, Awadesh Prasad (Samajwadi Party) for Milkipur, Amit Singh Chauhan (BJP) for Bikapur and Abhay Singh (Samajwadi Party) for Goshainganj.