The Savaras tribal group, who are still to be found in the district in some pockets, once heavily populated the area.

Khurda came into prominence when the first Rajas of the Khordha dynasty, Ramachandra Deva, made it the capital of his kingdom during the latter part of the 16th century.

Khurda suffered repeated onslaughts from Muslim and Maratha cavalry but its royal house retained independence till 1804, when the British East India Company dispossessed Raja of his territory following the Second Anglo-Maratha War.

[4] The district is mainly flat coastal plain, with some hill ranges in the west.

It is renowned for its brass utensils cottage industries, cable factory, spinning mills, watch repairing factory, railway coach repairing factory, oil industries, Coca-Cola bottling plant and small metal industries, or sms group, Iocl gas bottling plant.

Source:[5] According to the 2011 census Khordha district has a population of 2,251,673,[1] roughly equal to the nation of Latvia[8] or the US state of New Mexico.

[10] The following are the eight Vidhan sabha constituencies[11][12] of Khordha district and the elected members[13] of that area.