Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Maharashtra
- Division
- Aurangabad
- Headquarters
- Osmanabad
- Tehsils
- Osmanabad Tahsil Tuljapur Omerga Lohara Kalamb Bhoom Paranda Washi
- Body
- Osmanabad Zilla Parishad
- Guardian minister
- Tanaji Sawant , ( Cabinet Minister MH )
- President z p osmanabad
- Ranajagjitsinha Patil (BJP)
- District collector
- Sachin Ombase (IAS)
- Ceo z p osmanabad
- Rahul Gupta (IAS)
- Mps
- Omraje Nimbalkar , ( Osmanabad )
- Total
- 7,569 km (2,922 sq mi)
- Density
- 219.0/km (567.2/sq mi)
- Literacy
- 76.33%
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30 ( IST )
- Major highways
- National Highway 52 , National Highway 65 , National Highway 361
- Average annual precipitation
- 760.40 mm
- Website
- dharashiv .maharashtra .gov .in
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Sambhajinagar division
- Capital
- Dharashiv
- Population
- 1657576
- Area
- 7569
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Solapur district
- Official website
- osmanabad.nic.in
- Households
- 351281
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- topic's main category
- Category:Osmanabad district
- male population
- 861535
- female population
- 796041
- urban population
- 281057
- rural population
- 1376519
- literate population
- 1137810
- illiterate population
- 519766
- short name
- OSM
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Osmanabad district (pronunciation: [usmaːnabaːd̪]) (Transliteration: Usmanabad Jil'hā), officially known as Dharashiv district, is an administrative district in the Marathwada region in the Indian state of Maharashtra. The district headquarter is located at Osmanabad. The District of Osmanabad derives its name from the last ruler of Hyderabad, the 7th Nizam, Mir Osman Ali Khan, of which the region was a part till 1947. This region was earlier part of The Hyderabad State until Independence.This primarily rural district occupies an area of 7,569 km (2,922 sq mi) of which 241.4 km (93.2 sq mi) is urban and has a population of 1,657,576 of which 16.96% were urban (as of 2011).
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dharashiv district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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