Gaurela-Pendra-Marwahi district is a district in the
Indian 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 ...
.
Gaurella is the headquarters of the district. It was carved out of
Bilaspur district and inaugurated in February 2020.
[About Gaurela-Penra-Marwahi District]
" Government of Chhattisgarh, 2020
Geography
Gaurela-Pendra-Marwahi district is bordered by
Koriya and
Korba districts to the east,
Bilaspur and
Mungeli
Mungeli is a city and a Municipal Council in Mungeli district in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh. The pin code of Mungeli is 495334.
Demographics
As of 2001 India census
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and ...
districts to the south, and
Anuppur district of Madhya Pradesh to the northwest. The district is predominantly mountainous.
History
The district was formerly under the rule of the
Haihaiyas until Bhaskar Pant of the
Marathas defeated them. The Marathas then administered the region until the British victory in the
Third Anglo-Maratha War in 1818. The British then created Bilaspur district including the current territory of Gaurela-Pendra-Marwahi district. Chhattisgarh Mitra, the first newspaper of Chhattisgarh in this district, was published in the form of a monthly magazine from Pendra in the year 1900 under the editing o
Pandit Madhavrao Sapre
Demographics
At the time of the 2011 census, the district had a population of 3,36,420. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes make up 20,802 and 192,073 which is 6.18% and 57.09% of the population respectively.
According to the 2011 census, 74.59% of the district speaks
Chhattisgarhi
Chhattisgarhi ( / ) is an Indo-Aryan language, spoken by approximately 16 million people from Chhattisgarh & other states. It is mostly spoken in the Indian states of Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh & Maharashtra. It is closely related ...
and 23.48% speaks
Hindi as their first language.
2011 Census of India, Population By Mother Tongue
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See also
* Districts of Chhattisgarh
Chhattisgarh, a state of India, has 33 administrative districts. At the time of separation from Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh originally had 16 districts. Two new districts: Bijapur and Narayanpur were carved out on May 11, 2007 and nine new di ...
References
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Districts of Chhattisgarh