Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Madhya Pradesh
- Division
- Indore
- Established
- 25 May 1998 ( 1998-05-25 )
- Headquarters
- Barwani
- Tehsils
- Barwani Thikri Rajpur Sendhwa Pansemal Niwali Anjad Pati Warla
- District collector
- Shivraj Singh Verma ( IAS )
- Lok sabha constituencies
- 1. Khargone (shared with Barwani district)
- Total
- 5,427 km (2,095 sq mi)
- Density
- 255.4/km (661.4/sq mi)
- Urban
- 14.72%
- Literacy
- 49.08%
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30 ( IST )
- Vehicle registration
- MP-46
- Major highways
- MP SH 26, MP SH 36
- Website
- barwani .nic .in
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Indore division
- Capital
- Barwani State
- Population
- 1385881
- Area
- 5427
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Alirajpur district
- Official website
- barwani.nic.in
- Households
- 243277
Show 10 more facts
- topic's main category
- Category:Barwani district
- male population
- 699340
- female population
- 686541
- inception
- 1998-00-00
- urban population
- 204069
- rural population
- 1181812
- literate population
- 549926
- illiterate population
- 835955
- native label
- बडवानी जिला
- short name
- BRW
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Barwani district ( Hindi pronunciation: [bəɽʋaːniː]) is one of the districts of Madhya Pradesh state of India. The administrative headquarters of the district is at Barwani.
Barwani district has an area of 5,427 km² and a population 1,385,881 (2011 census). The district lies in the southwestern corner of Madhya Pradesh; the Narmada River forms its northern boundary. The Satpura Range lies to its south. The district is bordered by Maharashtra state to the south, Gujarat state to the west, Dhar District to the north and Khargone District to the east.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Barwani district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.