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Nagar taluka

tehsil in Maharashtra, India

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 26, 2024
Entity authorityQ6958517
Source-derived summary

Nagar taluka is a taluka in Ahmednagar subdivision of Ahmednagar district in Maharashtra state of India.

Area

The table below shows area of the taluka by land type.

Villages

There are around 117 villages in Nagar taluka. For list of villages see Villages in Nagar taluka.

Population

Nagar taluka has a population of 684,044 according to the 2011 census. Nagar had a literacy rate of 86.35% and a sex ratio of 931 females per 1000 males. 428,182 (62.60%) lived in urban areas. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes make up 14.18% and 2.10% of the population respectively.

At the time of the 2011 Census of India, 77.01% of the population in the district spoke Marathi, 8.31% Hindi, 5.35% Urdu, 2.77% Telugu and 2.36% Marwari as their first language.

Rain Fall

The table below details rainfall from 1981 to 2004.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Nagar taluka” as tehsil in Maharashtra, India. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Nagar, taluka and tehsil.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011, 1000, 1981, 2004—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Nagar, taluka and tehsil providing the first useful test.
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Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 26, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q6958517. Authority coordinates are 19.095, 74.769. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2011, 1000, 1981 and 2004.

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This entry incorporates text from Nagar taluka” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.