List of districts of Maharashtra




Districts in Indian state of Maharashtra



Location of Maharashtra in India


The Indian State of Maharashtra came into existence on 1 May 1960. It is also known as Maharashtra Day, initially with 26 districts. 10 new districts have been created since then, and currently the number of districts in the state is 36. These districts are grouped into five administrative divisions shown below.




Contents






  • 1 Regions and Divisions


    • 1.1 Regions


    • 1.2 Divisions




  • 2 Districts


  • 3 See also


  • 4 References





Regions and Divisions


Maharashtra is divided into 36 districts, which are grouped into six divisions.(In the following map, the recently created Palghar district has not been shown)[1]




Districts and divisions of Maharashtra (without Palghar district)



Regions


Geographically, historically, and according to political sentiments, Maharashtra has five main regions:




  • Konkan - (Konkan Division)


  • Paschim Maharashtra - (Pune Division)


  • Khandesh - (Nashik Division)[a]


  • Marathwada - (Aurangabad Division)


  • Vidarbha - (Nagpur and Amravati divisions) - formerly part of (Central Provinces and Berar)[b]



Divisions













































Name of Division
(Headquarter)		 Region Districts Largest City

Amravati Division
(HQ: Amravati)
Vidarbha (Varhad)


  • Akola

  • Amravati

  • Buldana

  • Yavatmal

  • Washim
Amravati

Aurangabad Division
(HQ: Aurangabad)		 Marathwada


  • Aurangabad

  • Beed

  • Jalna

  • Osmanabad

  • Nanded

  • Latur

  • Parbhani

  • Hingoli
Aurangabad

Konkan Division
(HQ: Mumbai)		 Konkan


  • Mumbai City

  • Mumbai Suburban

  • Thane

  • Palghar

  • Raigad

  • Ratnagiri

  • Sindhudurg
Mumbai

Nagpur Division
(HQ: Nagpur)		 Vidarbha


  • Bhandara

  • Chandrapur

  • Gadchiroli

  • Gondia

  • Nagpur

  • Wardha
Nagpur

Nashik Division
(HQ: Nashik)		 Khandesh


  • Ahmednagar

  • Dhule

  • Jalgaon

  • Nandurbar

  • Nashik
Nashik

Pune Division
(HQ: Pune)		 Paschim Maharashtra


  • Kolhapur

  • Pune

  • Sangli

  • Satara

  • Solapur
Pune




  1. ^ Nashik district culturally does not belong to Khandesh region. Culturally, Nashik, Ahmednagar and Aurangabad districts share a same pattern which was called Gangathadi.


  2. ^ Amravati Division used to be a separate region of Central Provinces and Berar as Berar Division known as "Varhad" in Marathi before becoming part of Vidharbha Division of Maharashtra.




Districts


The table below lists important geographic and demographic parameters for all 36 districts. Population data are extracted from the 2001 Census of India.









































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































No Name Code Formed Headquarters Administrative
Division		 Area (km2) Population
(2001 census)		 % of State
Population
Density
(per km2)
Urban (%)
Literacy (%)		 Sex Ratio Tehsils Source
1 Ahmednagar AH 1 May 1960 Ahmednagar Pune 17,413 4,088,077
7000422009999900000♠4.22%		 234.77 19.67 80.22 941 14
District website
2 Akola AK 1 May 1960 Akola Amravati 5,417 1,818,617
7000168000000000000♠1.68%		 300.78 44.04 88.05 938 7
District website
3 Amravati AM 1 May 1960 Amravati Amravati 12,626 2,606,063
7000269000000000000♠2.69%		 206.40 34.50 82.5 838 14
District website
4 Aurangabad AU 1 May 1960 Aurangabad Aurangabad 10,100 2,897,013
7000299000000000000♠2.99%		 286.83 37.53 61.15 924 9
District website
5 Beed BI 1 May 1960 Beed Aurangabad 10,439 2,161,250
7000223000000000000♠2.23%		 207.04 17.91 68 936 11
District website
6 Bhandara BH 1 May 1960 Bhandara Nagpur 3,717 1,135,835
7000117000000000000♠1.17%		 305.58 15.44 68.28 982 7
District website
7 Buldhana BU 1 May 1960 Buldhana Amravati 9,680 2,232,480
7000230000000099999♠2.3%		 230.63 21.2 75.8 946 13
District website
8 Chandrapur CH 1 May 1960 Chandrapur Nagpur 10,695 2,071,101
7000214000000000000♠2.14%		 193.65 32.11 73.03 948 15
District website
9 Dhule DH 1 May 1960 Dhule Nashik 8,063 1,707,947
7000176000000000000♠1.76%		 211.83 26.11 71.6 944 4
District website
10 Gadchiroli GA 26 August 1982 Gadchiroli Nagpur 14,412 970,294
7000100000000000000♠1%		 67.33 6.93 60.1 976 12
District website
11 Gondia GO 1 May 1999 Gondia Nagpur 4,843 1,200,151
7000124000000000000♠1.24%		 247.81 11.95 67.67 1005 8
District website
12 Hingoli HI 1 May 1999 Hingoli Aurangabad 4,526 987,160
7000102000000000000♠1.02%		 218.11 15.2 66.86 953 5
District website
13 Jalgaon JG 1 May 1960 Jalgaon Nashik 11,765 3,679,936
7000380000000000000♠3.8%		 312.79 71.4 76.06 932 15
District website
14 Jalna JN 1 May 1981 Jalna Aurangabad 7,612 1,612,357
7000166000000000000♠1.66%		 211.82 19.09 64.52 952 8
District website
15 Kolhapur KO 1 May 1960 Kolhapur Pune 7,685 3,515,413
7000363000000000000♠3.63%		 457.44 29.65 77.23 949 12
District website
16 Latur LA 16 August 1982 Latur
Aurangabad Division
 7,372 2,080,285
7000215000000000000♠2.15%		 282.19 23.57 71.54 935 10
District website
17 Mumbai City MC 1 May 1960 Mumbai Konkan 67.7 3,326,837
7000343000000000000♠3.43%		 49,140.9 100 86.4 777 0
District website
18 Mumbai Suburban MU 1 October 1990 Bandra Konkan 369 8,587,000
7000886000000000000♠8.86%		 23,271 100 86.9 822 3
District website
19 Nagpur NG 1 May 1960 Nagpur Nagpur 9,897 4,051,444
7000418009999900000♠4.18%		 409.36 64.33 84.18 933 13
District website
20 Nanded ND 1 May 1960 Nanded Aurangabad 10,422 2,876,259
7000297000000000000♠2.97%		 275.98 28.29 68.52 942 16
District website
21 Nandurbar NB 1 July 1998 Nandurbar Nashik 5,035 1,309,135
7000135000000000000♠1.35%		 260 15.5 46.63 975 6
District website
22 Nashik NS 1 May 1960 Nashik Nashik 15,530 4,993,796
7000515000000000000♠5.15%		 321.56 38.8 74.4 927 15
District website
23 Osmanabad OS 1 May 1960 Osmanabad Aurangabad 7,512 1,486,586
7000153000000000000♠1.53%		 197.89 15.7 54.27 932 8
District website
24 Palghar PL 1 August 2014 Palghar Konkan 5,344 2,990,116
(2011)
7000309000000000000♠3.09%
(2011)		 562 50 80 900 8
District website
25 Parbhani PA 1 May 1960 Parbhani Aurangabad 6,251 1,527,715
7000158000000000000♠1.58%		 244.4 31.8 55.15 958 9
District website
26 Pune PU 1 May 1960 Pune Pune 15,642 7,224,224
7000746000000000000♠7.46%		 461.85 58.1 80.78 919 14
District website
27 Raigad RG 1 May 1960 Alibag Konkan 7,148 2,207,929
7000227990000099999♠2.28%		 308.89 24.2 77 976 15
District website
28 Ratnagiri RT 1 May 1960 Ratnagiri Konkan 8,208 1,696,777
7000175000000000000♠1.75%		 206.72 11.3 65.13 1,136 9
District website
29 Sangli SN 1 May 1960 Sangli Pune 8,578 2,583,524
7000267000000000000♠2.67%		 301.18 24.5 62.41 957 10
District website
30 Satara ST 1 May 1960 Satara Pune 10,484 2,796,906
7000289000000000000♠2.89%		 266.77 14.2 78.52 995 11
District website
31 Sindhudurg SI 1 May 1981 Oros Konkan 5,207 868,825
6999900000000000000♠0.9%		 166.86 9.5 80.3 1,079 8
District website
32 Solapur SO 1 May 1960 Solapur Pune 14,845 3,849,543
7000397000000000000♠3.97%		 259.32 31.8 71.2 935 11
District website
33 Thane TH 1 May 1960 Thane Konkan 9,558 8,131,849
7000839000000000000♠8.39%		 850.71 72.58 80.67 858 15
District website
34 Wardha WR 1 May 1960 Wardha Nagpur 6,310 1,230,640
7000127000000000000♠1.27%		 195.03 25.17 80.5 936 8
District website
35 Washim WS 1 July 1998 Washim washim 5,150 1,020,216
7000105000000000000♠1.05%		 275.98 17.49 74.02 939 6
District website
36 Yavatmal YTL 1 May 1960 Yavatmal Amravati 13,584 2,077,144
7000214000000000000♠2.14%		 152.93 18.6 57.96 951 16
District website
Maharashtra - - - - - 307,713 96,878,627 - 314.42 42.43 77.27 922 - -


See also



  • Tehsils in Maharashtra

  • Maharashtra



References




  1. ^ List of districts and divisions


  • Census of India









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