Ambagarh Chowki has been merged with Mohla Manpur and has been made a district on 2021.in the state of

Chhattisgarh Chhattisgarh (, ) is a landlocked state in Central India. It is the ninth largest state by area, and with a population of roughly 30 million, the seventeenth most populous. It borders seven states – Uttar Pradesh to the north, Madhya Prade ...

India India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the so ...

Geography

Ambagarh Chowki is located at the banks of

Shivnath River Shivnath River (or Seonath River) is the longest tributary of Mahanadi River, which it joins in Changori in Janjgir-Champa district in Chhattisgarh, India. It has a total course of . The name comes for the god Shiva in Hinduism. Sources Shivnat ...

(or Sheonath river). It is approximately from the capital of the state (

Raipur Raipur ( ) is the capital city of the Indian state of Chhattisgarh. Raipur is also the administrative headquarters of Raipur district and Raipur division, and the largest city of the state. It was a part of Madhya Pradesh before the state of Chh ...

) via NH 53 and approximately from the previous district

Rajnandgaon Rajnandgaon is a city in Rajnandgaon District, in the state of Chhattisgarh, India. the population of the city was 163,122. Rajnandgaon district came into existence on 26January 1973, as a result of the division of Durg district. History O ...

. The town consist of many hillocks, on some of which temples were built. The commercial vegetation here consist of Mahua trees (Scientific name:

Madhuca longifolia ''Madhuca longifolia'' is an Indian tropical tree found largely in the central, southern, north Indian plains and forests, Nepal, Myanmar and Sri Lanka. It is commonly known as madhūka, , mahuwa, Butter Tree, mahua, mahwa, , Iluppai or vippa che ...

), and Tendu trees (Scientific name :

Diospyros melanoxylon ''Diospyros melanoxylon'', the Coromandel ebony or East Indian ebony, is a species of flowering tree in the family Ebenaceae native to India and Sri Lanka; it has a hard, dry bark. Its common name derives from Coromandel, the coast of southeas ...

whose leaves are picked by the people licensed by the government tenders, which is later used to make

beedi A beedi (also spelled bidi or biri) is a thin cigarette or mini-cigar filled with tobacco flake and commonly wrapped in a tendu (''Diospyros melanoxylon'') or ''Piliostigma racemosum'' leaf tied with a string or adhesive at one end. It origi ...

Demographics

India

census A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses incl ...

, Ambagarh Chowki had a population of 9889. Males constitute 49% of the population and females 51%. In Ambagarh Chowki, Female Sex Ratio is 1039 against the state average of 991. Ambagarh Chowki has an average literacy rate of 87.2%, higher than the state average of 70.28%; with 93.16% of the males and 83.8% of females literate. 11.71% of the population is under 6 years of age.

References

Cities and towns in Rajnandgaon district {{Chhattisgarh-geo-stub