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Dharashiv district
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Osmanabad district.
Osmanabad district (pronunciation: ) (Transliteration: Usmanabad Jil'hā), officially known as Dharashiv district, is an administrative district in the Marathwada region in the Indian state of Maharashtra. The district headquarters are located at Osmanabad. The District of Osmanabad derives its name from the last ruler of Hyderabad, the 7th Nizam, Mir Osman Ali Khan, under whose rule the region was part till 1947. The region was part of the Hyderabad State until independence. This primarily rural district occupies an area of 7,569 km (2,922 sq mi), of which 241.4 km (93.2 sq mi) is urban, and has a population of 1,657,576, of which 16.96% were urban (as of 2011).