Buldhana district
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Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Maharashtra
- Division
- Amravati
- Headquarters
- Buldhana
- Tehsils
- Buldhana Chikhli Deulgaon Raja Khamgaon Shegaon Malkapur Motala Nandura Mehkar Lonar Sindkhed Raja Jalgaon Jamod Sangrampur
- Body
- Buldhana Zilla Parishad
- Guardian minister
- Makrand Jadhav - Patil , ( Cabinet Minister )
- President zilla parishad
- President, Mrs. Manisha Pawar Vice President, Mrs. Kamal Budhavat
- District collector
- Dr. Pravinkumar Devare(IAS)
- Ceo zilla parishad
- Mr. Gulabrao Kharat (IAS)
- Superintendent of police
- Nilesh Tambe (IPS)
- Total
- 9,661 km (3,730 sq mi)
- Density
- 267.7/km (693.3/sq mi)
- Literacy
- 82.09%
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30 ( IST )
- Major highways
- NH-6 , NH-753A
- Average annual precipitation
- 946 mm
- Website
- buldhana .nic .in
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Amravati division
- Capital
- Buldhana
- Population
- 2586258
- Area
- 9640
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Burhanpur district
- Official website
- buldhana.nic.in
- Households
- 561504
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- Commons category
- Buldhana district
- male population
- 1337560
- female population
- 1248698
- short name
- BUL
- urban population
- 548860
- rural population
- 2037398
- literate population
- 1879874
- illiterate population
- 706384
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Encyclopedic overview
Buldhana district (Marathi pronunciation: [bulɖʰaːɳa]) is located in the Amravati division of Maharashtra, India. It is situated at the western border of Vidarbha region and is 500 km away from the state capital, Mumbai. The district has towns and cities like Deulghat, Dhad, Mehakar, Shegaon, Malkapur, Khamgaon, Lonar and Chikhli. It is surrounded by Madhya Pradesh in the north, Akola, Washim, and Amravati districts on the east, Jalna district on the south, and Jalgaon and Aurangabad districts on the west. Khamgaon is the largest city in the district.
Buldhana district holds religious significance as it is the site of the Shri Gajanan Maharaj Temple, Shegaon. Lonarkar Top (about 923 meters) is highest altitude in Buldhana District placed in Ambabarwa Wildlife Sanctuary.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Buldhana district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.