Akkalkot Taluka is one of the 11
tehsils
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Solapur District
Solapur District (Marathi pronunciation: Help:IPA/Marathi, olaːpuːɾ is a List of districts of Maharashtra, district in Maharashtra state of India. The city of Solapur is the district headquarters. It is located on the south east edge of th ...
in the
India
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Maharashtra. The tehsil occupies the southeast corner of the district and is bordered by
Osmanabad District to the north,
Karnataka
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Kalaburagi
Kalaburagi, formerly known as Gulbarga, is a city in the Indian state of Karnataka. It is the administrative headquarters of the Kalaburagi district and is the largest city in the region of North Karnataka (Kalyana-Karnataka). Kalaburagi is 6 ...
and
Bijapur districts to the southeast and south respectively, and
South Solapur Taluka to the west. The tehsil headquarters is located at
Akkalkot, which is also the largest city in the tehsil and a religious center of the area.
As of 2011, the population of the tehsil was 314,570, out of which 161,314 were male and 153,256 were female.
References
External links
The official website of Solapur districtBarshi Tehsil on Biond
{{Solapur district topics
Talukas in Solapur district