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Ahmedabad Ahmedabad ( ; Gujarati: Amdavad ) is the most populous city in the Indian state of Gujarat. It is the administrative headquarters of the Ahmedabad district and the seat of the Gujarat High Court. Ahmedabad's population of 5,570,585 (per t ...

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District Collector A District Collector-cum-District Magistrate (also known as Deputy Commissioner in some states) is an All India Service officer of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) cadre who is responsible for ''land revenue collection'', ''canal reven ...

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. It is the seventh most populous district in India (out of 739).{{cite web , url = http://www.census2011.co.in/district.php , title = District Census 2011 , access-date = 2011-09-30 , year = 2011 , publisher = Census2011.co.in

Climate

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Divisions

Following are the talukas of Ahmedabad district:

Talukas in Ahmedabad City - East

Maninagar Maninagar is an area of Ahmedabad city, Gujarat, India. It is located in the southern part of the city and an important area of the city. It can be divided into two regions - Maninagar East and Maninagar West, separated by the Maninagar Railw ...

Asarwa Asarwa is a district of Ahmedabad, India. It is divided into two parts, New Asarwa and Old Asarwa. New Asawa contains more newly developed residential areas while Old Asarwa is a small village, and contains several manufacturing and weaving in ...

Vatva Vatva is one of the 182 Legislative Assembly constituencies of Gujarat state in India. It is part of Ahmedabad district and it came into existence after 2008 delimitation. List of segments This assembly seat represents the following segments ...

Talukas in Ahmedabad City - West

# Vejalpur # Sabarmati # Ghatlodiya

Talukas in Ahmedabad Suburban

# Daskroi #

Sanand Sanand is a city and a municipality in Ahmedabad district in the Indian state of Gujarat. It is a major industrial hub of Western India, host to manufacturing plants of multiple domestic and foreign companies like Tata Motors, Nivea, Nestl ...

Talukas in Rural North Ahmedabad

Viramgam Viramgam is a town and former princely state in the Indian state of Gujarat. The town is located in the Ahmedabad district, which contains the city of Ahmedabad, the state's largest city. Gateway Distriparks notably flagged off the first export ...

# Detroj-Rampura #

Mandal A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluka, or taluk) is a local unit of administrative division in some countries of South Asia. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administr ...

Talukas in Rural South Ahmedabad

Bavla Bavla is a town, and a municipality, in Ahmedabad district, in the state of Gujarat, India. Demographics As of the 2009 India census, Bavla had a population about 45,000, with males constituting 53% of the population and females 47%. Bavla had ...

Dholka Dholka is a city and municipality in the Ahmedabad District of the Indian state of Gujarat. It is the headquarters of Dholka Taluka, and is 48 km by road via National Highway 8A southwest of the city of Ahmedabad. Dholka has an average ...

Dhandhuka Dhandhuka is a city and a municipality in the Ahmedabad district in the state of Gujarat, India. Moreover, it is a part of the Bhal region. Dhandhuka is said to have been founded by, and to take its name from, Koli Dhana Mer, or rather Mehd, the ...

Dholera Dholera is a village in Ahmedabad district of Gujarat state in India. History Dholera was also an ancient port-city in Gulf of Khambhat, 30 km. from Dhandhuka village of Ahmedabad district. Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Dholera is one of th ...

Politics

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Demographics

{{historical populations, 11=1901, 12=6,81,713, 13=1911, 14=7,17,107, 15=1921, 16=7,65,900, 17=1931, 18=8,50,077, 19=1941, 20=11,78,608, 21=1951, 22=15,16,191, 23=1961, 24=20,16,668, 25=1971, 26=27,65,925, 27=1981, 28=37,06,573, 29=1991, 30=46,31,351, 31=2001, 32=58,93,164, 33=2011, 34=72,14,225, percentages=pagr, footnote=source:, align=middle According to the 2011 census Ahmedabad district has a

population Population typically refers to the number of people in a single area, whether it be a city or town, region, country, continent, or the world. Governments typically quantify the size of the resident population within their jurisdiction using a ...

of 7,214,225, roughly equal to

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...

{{cite web , author = US Directorate of Intelligence , title = Country Comparison:Population , url = https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2119rank.html , archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070613004507/https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2119rank.html , url-status = dead , archive-date = June 13, 2007 , access-date = 2011-10-01 , quote = Hong Kong 7,122,508 July 2011 est. or the U.S. state of

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. This gives it a ranking of 8th in India (out of a total of 640). The district has a population density of {{convert, 983 , PD/sqkm, PD/sqmi . Its

population growth rate Population growth is the increase in the number of people in a population or dispersed group. Actual global human population growth amounts to around 83 million annually, or 1.1% per year. The global population has grown from 1 billion in 1800 to ...

over the decade 2001-2011 was 22.31%. Ahmedabad has a

sex ratio The sex ratio (or gender ratio) is usually defined as the ratio of males to females in a population. As explained by Fisher's principle, for evolutionary reasons this is typically about 1:1 in species which reproduce sexually. Many species devia ...

of 903

females Female (symbol: ♀) is the sex of an organism that produces the large non-motile ova (egg cells), the type of gamete (sex cell) that fuses with the male gamete during sexual reproduction. A female has larger gametes than a male. Females ...

for every 1000 males, and a

literacy rate Literacy in its broadest sense describes "particular ways of thinking about and doing reading and writing" with the purpose of understanding or expressing thoughts or ideas in written form in some specific context of use. In other words, huma ...

of 86.65%. The divided district has a population of 7,045,313. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes make up 747,806 and 88,911 which is 10.61% and 1.26% of the population respectively.

Religion

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Hinduism Hinduism () is an Indian religion or '' dharma'', a religious and universal order or way of life by which followers abide. As a religion, it is the world's third-largest, with over 1.2–1.35 billion followers, or 15–16% of the global p ...

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Islam Islam (; ar, ۘالِإسلَام, , ) is an Abrahamic religions, Abrahamic Monotheism#Islam, monotheistic religion centred primarily around the Quran, a religious text considered by Muslims to be the direct word of God in Islam, God (or ...

, green, 12.38 {{bar percent,

Jainism Jainism ( ), also known as Jain Dharma, is an Indian religions, Indian religion. Jainism traces its spiritual ideas and history through the succession of twenty-four tirthankaras (supreme preachers of ''Dharma''), with the first in the current ...

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Christianity Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. It is the world's largest and most widespread religion with roughly 2.38 billion followers representing one-third of the global pop ...

, dodgerblue, 0.72 {{bar percent, Other or not stated, black, 0.40 Hindus are 5,885,869 while Muslims are 871,887, Jains are 208,575 and Christians 50,631.

Language

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Gujarati Gujarati may refer to: * something of, from, or related to Gujarat, a state of India * Gujarati people, the major ethnic group of Gujarat * Gujarati language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by them * Gujarati languages, the Western Indo-Aryan sub ...

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Hindi Hindi (Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been de ...

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Urdu Urdu (;"Urdu"
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Marathi Marathi may refer to: *Marathi people, an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group of Maharashtra, India *Marathi language, the Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people *Palaiosouda, also known as Marathi, a small island in Greece See also * * ...

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Notable people

Acharya Hemachandra Hemachandra was a 12th century () Indian Jain saint, scholar, poet, mathematician, philosopher, yogi, grammarian, law theorist, historian, lexicographer, rhetorician, logician, and prosodist. Noted as a prodigy by his contemporaries, he gain ...

(1089–1172)

Jain Jainism ( ), also known as Jain Dharma, is an Indian religion. Jainism traces its spiritual ideas and history through the succession of twenty-four tirthankaras (supreme preachers of ''Dharma''), with the first in the current time cycle being ...

polymath A polymath ( el, πολυμαθής, , "having learned much"; la, homo universalis, "universal human") is an individual whose knowledge spans a substantial number of subjects, known to draw on complex bodies of knowledge to solve specific pro ...

. Born in

.{{cite web , title =Hemacandra , publisher =Jain World , url =http://www.jainworld.com/literature/story28.htm , access-date =2008-05-06 , archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20080429205050/http://www.jainworld.com/literature/story28.htm , archive-date =April 29, 2008 , url-status =dead * Joravarsinh Jadav (born 1940), folklorist

References

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Mahesana district Mehsana district (alternate spelling "Mahesana") is one of the 33 districts of Gujarat state in western India. Mehsana city is the administrative headquarters of this district. The district has a population of over 1.8 million and an area of ove ...

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Kheda district Kheda District is one of the thirty-three districts of Gujarat state in western India. Its central city, Kheda, is the administrative headquarters of the district. History Formerly known as Kaira district, it was divided in two with the sou ...

Anand district Anand District is an administrative district of Gujarat state in western India and whose popular nickname is Charotar. It was carved out of the Kheda district in 1997. Anand is the administrative headquarters of the district. It is bounde ...

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Gulf of Khambhat The Gulf of Khambhat, historically known as the Gulf of Cambay, is a bay on the Arabian Sea coast of India, bordering the state of Gujarat just north of Mumbai and Diu Island. The Gulf of Khambhat is about long, about wide in the north and u ...

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Surendranagar district Surendranagar is an administrative district in Saurashtra region of Gujarat state in India. It has a population of approximately 1.7 million people. Surendranagar city, along with the twin city of Wadhwan, has a total of 400,000 inhabitants, ...

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