Nandurbar district
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Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Maharashtra
- Division
- Nashik
- Established
- 1 July 1998
- Named after
- Aadivasi ( tribal )
- Headquarters
- Nandurbar
- Talukas
- Shahada Nandurbar Navapur Taloda Akkalkuwa Dhadgaon
- Body
- Nandurbar Zilla Parishad
- Guardian minister
- Hasan Mushrif ( Nationalist Congress Party )
- President zilla parishad
- *President Mrs. Adv. Seema Padmakar Valavi *Vice President Mr. Adv. Ram Chandrakant Raghuvanshi
- District collector
- Dr. Mittali Sethi (IAS)
- Ceo zilla parishad
- Mr. Raghunath Gawde (IAS)
- Mps
- * Gowaal Kagada Padavi ( Nandurbar )
- Total
- 5,955 km (2,299 sq mi)
- Rank
- Area Rank (Maharashtra): 26th.
- Density
- 260/km (670/sq mi)
- Official
- Marathi
- Spoken
- Aadivasi, Bhili , Gujari and various dialects of Bhili and Kokani tribal languages
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Nashik division
- Capital
- Nandurbar
- Population
- 1648295
- Area
- 5035
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Dhule district
- Official website
- nandurbar.nic.in
- Image
- Unapdev Shahada.jpg
- Households
- 323521
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- Commons category
- Nandurbar district
- topic's main category
- Category:Nandurbar district
- male population
- 833170
- female population
- 815125
- urban population
- 275474
- rural population
- 1372821
- literate population
- 906509
- illiterate population
- 741786
- short name
- NNR
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Encyclopedic overview
Nandurbar district (Marathi pronunciation: [nən̪d̪uɾbaːɾ]) is an administrative district in the northwest corner of Maharashtra state in India. On 1 July 1998 Dhule was bifurcated as two separate districts now known as Dhule and Nandurbar. Nandurbar is a tribal-dominated district with its headquarters located at Nandurbar city. The district occupies an area of 5,955 square kilometres (2,299 sq mi) and has a population of 1,648,295 of which 16.71% were urban (as of 2011).
Nandurbar district is bounded to the south and south-east by Dhule district, to the west and north is the state of Gujarat, to the north and north-east is the state of Madhya Pradesh. The northern boundary of the district is defined by the Narmada River.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nandurbar district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.