Dhule district
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Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Maharashtra
- Division
- Nashik Division
- Headquarters
- Dhule
- Tehsils
- 1. Dhule , 2. Shirpur , 3. Sindkheda , 4. Sakri
- Body
- Dhule Zilla Parishad
- Cities
- Dhule , Shirpur , Dondaicha, Shindkheda, Sakri, Pimpalner
- President of zilla parishad
- Smt. Dharti Deore
- District collector
- Shri. Jitendra Papalkar (IAS)
- Ceo zilla parishad
- Shri. Vishal Narwade (IAS)
- Mps
- Shobha Bachhav , ( Dhule ) Gowaal Padavi , ( Nandurbar )
- Total
- 7,195 km (2,778 sq mi)
- Density
- 285.0/km (738.2/sq mi)
- Urban
- 571,036
- Literacy
- 72.80%
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30 ( IST )
- Major highways
- NH-3 , NH-6 , NH-211 Nagaon Bari
- Average annual precipitation
- 544 mm
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Official website
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Encyclopedic overview
Dhule district (Marathi pronunciation: [d̪huɭeː]) is a district of Maharashtra, India. The of Dhule town is the administrative headquarters of the district. It is part of North Maharashtra.
The Dhule district previously comprised tracts of land predominantly inhabited by tribal populations. It was then bifurcated on 1 July 1998 into two separate districts now known as Dhule and Nandurbar, the latter comprising the tribal region. Agriculture remains the basic profession in this district. As most parts of the district do not have irrigation infrastructure, cultivation heavily depends on regular monsoons and rainwater. Apart from wheat, bajra, jowar, jwari, or onion, the most favoured commercial crop is cotton. The majority of the rural population speaks Ahirani (a dialect of Marathi), though Marathi is more widely spoken in urban areas. Around 26.11% of the district's population reside in urban areas.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dhule district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.