Sagar district
Sign in to savedistrict of Madhya Pradesh, India
Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Madhya Pradesh
- Division
- Sagar
- Headquarters
- Sagar
- Tehsils
- List 12, Sagar Bina Khurai Banda Deori Rahatgarh Shahgarh Malthon Rehli Garhakota Kesli Jaisinagar
- Lok sabha constituencies
- Sagar , Damoh
- Total
- 10,252 km (3,958 sq mi)
- Density
- 232.00/km (600.88/sq mi)
- Literacy
- 77.52 per cent
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30 ( IST )
- Website
- sagar .nic .in
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Sagar division
- Capital
- Sagar
- Population
- 2378458
- Area
- 10252
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Damoh district
- Official website
- sagar.nic.in
- Households
- 517850
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- topic's main category
- Category:Sagar district
- male population
- 1256257
- female population
- 1122201
- urban population
- 708796
- rural population
- 1669662
- literate population
- 1545719
- illiterate population
- 832739
- Commons category
- Sagar district
- short name
- SGR
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
23°48′N 78°40′E / 23.800°N 78.667°E / 23.800; 78.667 Sagar district ( Hindi pronunciation: [saːgəɾ]) is a district of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. The town of Sagar serves as its administrative center. Sagar district is called the heart district of India. The Tropic of Cancer (23°3') passes through Rangir Tiraha on NH26 present NH44 in Sagar district.
The district has an area of 10,252 km², and a population of 2,378,458 (2011 census), an increase of 45% or by 732,260 inhabitants from its 1991 population of 1,646,198. Sagar district is dominated by Sonis, Jains and Yadavs.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sagar district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.