North Gujarat, the Northern part of

Indian state India is a federal union comprising 28 states and 8 union territories, for a total of 36 subnational entities. The states and union territories are further subdivided into 800 districts and smaller administrative divisions by the respe ...

Gujarat Gujarat () is a States of India, state along the Western India, western coast of India. Its coastline of about is the longest in the country, most of which lies on the Kathiawar peninsula. Gujarat is the List of states and union territories ...

includes the districts of

Gandhinagar Gandhinagar () is the capital of the state of Gujarat in India. Gandhinagar is located approximately 23 km north of Ahmedabad, on the west central point of the industrial corridor between the megacities of Delhi and Mumbai. Gandhinagar ...

Banaskantha Banaskantha district is one of the thirty-four districts of the Gujarat state of India. The administrative headquarters and largest city is Palanpur. The district is in northeastern Gujarat where the West Banas River runs through the valley betw ...

, Patan, Aravalli, Mehsana Sabarkantha and

Vav-Tharad district Vav-Tharad is a Districts of India, district of Gujarat, India. It is located on the eastern side of the Rann of Kutch and southern side of the Rajasthan State touches its borders, its headquarters is at the city of Tharad. Vav-Tharad was carved ...

. Patan city is the administrative headquarters of North Gujarat. There Are Two Municipal Corporations in North Gujarat Mehsana And

. North Gujarat is dominant in the dairy industry. Currently, the water table of the region is dropping 6 meters every year. The dialects of Gujarati in this region differ from each other and from dialects in other parts with minor differences. All dialects have the common difference from Gujarati in that the word "chhe" is replaced by "she" or "sh". According to the 2011 Census, this region has a population of 10,319,646 people.

Cities and districts

is the largest city and Patan district is the largest district in the region. Other important cities are Patan, Mehsana,

Palanpur Palanpur (Gujarati language, Gujarati: ) is a city and a headquarters of Banaskantha district in the Indian state of Gujarat. Palanpur is the ancestral home to an industry of Indian diamond merchants. Etymology Palanpur in early times is said ...

, Himmatnagar, Modasa, Sidhpur, Kalol, Kadi, Unjha & Visnagar. The districts in the region are Patan district,

Gandhinagar district Gandhinagar district is an administrative division of Gujarat, India, whose headquarters are at Gandhinagar, the state capital. It was organized in 1964. It has an area of 2140 km2, and a population of 1,391,753 of which 43.16% lives in u ...

Mehsana 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 over ...

Banaskantha district Banaskantha district is one of the Districts of Gujarat, thirty-four districts of the Gujarat States and territories of India, state of India. The administrative headquarters and largest city is Palanpur. The district is in northeastern Gujarat wh ...

Sabarkantha district Sabarkantha district is one of the 33 districts of Gujarat state of India, located in the Northeast India, northeastern part of the state. The administrative headquarters of the district are located in Himatnagar and the National Highway no. 48 pa ...

, Aravalli district and

Education

* North Gujarat University, Patan * Government Engineering College, Patan * Government Engineering College, Modasa * Government Engineering College, Gandhinagar *

IIT Gandhinagar Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (also known as IIT Gandhinagar or IITGN) is a public technical university located in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India. It has been declared to be an Institute of National Importance by the Government of I ...

* Gujarat Technological University * GTU-SET * Gujarat Power Engineering And Research Institute * Ganpat University * Sardarkrushinagar Dantiwada Agricultural University

Prehistory

Evidence of prehistoric settlements in North Gujarat were first discovered in 1893 by British geologist Bruce Foote. Archeological expeditions in the 1940s and 1950s that microlithic-using hunter-gatherers, agro-pastoralists, early farmers, and Harappan settlements all coexisted at the Langhnaj site located in the

Universities

Highway project

Tharad-Patan-Ahmedabad Highway Project

Tourism

Rivers

Saraswati River The Sarasvati River () is a deified mythological river first mentioned in the Rigveda and later in Vedic and post-Vedic texts. It played an important role in the Vedic religion, appearing in all but the fourth book of the Rigveda. As a phys ...

Sabarmati River The Sabarmati River is one of the major west-flowing rivers in India. It originates in the Aravalli Range of the Udaipur District of Rajasthan and meets the Gulf of Khambhat of the Arabian Sea after travelling in a south-westerly direction acr ...

* West Banas River

References

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