Sagar District

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Sagar District is a district of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. The town of Sagar serves as its administrative center.

The district has an area of 10,252 sq. km., and a population of 2,021,783 (2001 census), a 23% increase from its 1991 population of 1,646,198. Sagar is bounded by Lalitpur District of Uttar Pradesh state to the north, and the Madhya Pradesh districts of Chhatarpur to the northeast, Damoh to the east, Narsinghpur to the south, Raisen to the southwest, Vidisha to the west, and Ashoknagar to the northwest.

Sagar District is an extensive, elevated and in parts tolerably level plain, broken in places by low hills of the Vindhyan sandstone. It is traversed by numerous streams, chief of which are the Sunar, Beas, Dhasan and Bina rivers, all flowing in a northerly direction towards the valley of the Ganges. In the southern and central parts the soil is black, formed by decaying trap; to the north and east it is a reddish-brown alluvium. Iron ore of excellent quality is found and worked at Hirapur, a small village in the extreme north-east. The district contains several densely wooded tracts, the largest of which is the Ramna teak forest preserve in the north.

Divisions and Districts of Madhya Pradesh
Bhopal Division: Betul | Bhopal | Harda | Hoshangabad | Raisen | Rajgarh | Sehore | Vidisha
Chambal Division: | Bhind | Morena | Sheopur
Gwalior Division: Ashoknagar | Datia | Guna | Gwalior | Shivpuri
Indore Division: Barwani | Burhanpur | Dhar | Indore | Jhabua | Khandwa | Khargone
Jabalpur Division: Balaghat | Chindwara | Dindori | Jabalpur | Katni | Mandla | Narsinghpur | Seoni
Rewa Division: Anuppur | Rewa | Satna | Shadol | Sidhi | Umaria
Sagar Division: Chhatarpur | Damoh | Panna | Sagar | Tikamgarh
Ujjain Division: Dewas | Mandsaur | Neemuch | Ratlam | Shajapur | Ujjain