Malvan region refers to the

Sindhudurg district Sindhudurg district (Marathi pronunciation: in̪d̪ʱud̪uɾɡ is an administrative district of the Konkan division in India, which was carved out of the erstwhile Ratnagiri district. The district headquarters are located at Oros and the di ...

in Maharashtra, on the western coast of

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 ...

. Earlier it was a part of the Ratnagiri district which was bifurcated into the Sindhudurg district on 1 May 1981, for administrative convenience and industrial and agricultural development. Sindhudurg district is known as the Malvan region due to the presence of the

Malvani language Malvani is a dialect of Konkani with significant Marathi influences and loanwords. Although Malvani does not have a unique script, the Devanagari script is used by most speakers. Malvani is sometimes used for sarcastic newspaper articles and ...

which is spoken by the locals known as

Malvani people {{Use Indian English, date=June 2017 Malvani people or Malvanis are an ethnic group from the Malvan region, which includes Malvan, Kudal, Sawantwadi and Dodamarg tehsils of Sindhudurg, India, speaking the Malvani language. Malvani people are most ...

in the region. In the bordering areas of Goa and Karnataka, this region is known as

Malnad Malnad (; Malēnādu) is a region in the state of Karnataka in India. Malenadu covers the western and eastern slopes of the Western Ghats or Sahyadri mountain range, and is roughly 100 kilometers in width. Malnadis a region of Karnataka ...

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History of Malvan city
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