Gwalior district


Gwalior district is one of the 52 districts of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. The historic city of Gwalior is its administrative headquarters. Other cities and towns in this district are Antari, Bhitarwar, Bilaua, Dabra, Morar Cantonment, Pichhore, and Tekanpur.
The district has an area of 4,560 km², and a population 2,032,036, a 25% increase from the 2001 census.Kaushlendra Vikram Singh is District Collector since March 2020.

Geography

The district is at the center of the Gird region, and is mostly a relatively level plain. This plain, though broken in its southern portion by low hills, has generally an elevation of only a few hundred feet above sea-level. In the summer season the climate is very hot, the shade temperature rising frequently to around 44 °C, but in the winter months it is usually temperate and for short periods extremely cold.

Divisions

The district comprises 3 tehsils: Gwalior, Bhitarwar and Dabra. There are six Madhya Pradesh Vidhan Sabha constituencies in this district. These are Gwalior Rural, Gwalior, Gwalior East, Gwalior South, Bhitarwar and Dabra. All of these are part of Gwalior Lok Sabha constituency.

Demographics

According to the 2011 census Gwalior district has a population of 2,032,036, roughly equal to the nation of Slovenia or the US state of New Mexico. This gives it a ranking of 227th in India. The district has a population density of . Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 24.41%. Gwalior has a sex ratio of 862 females for every 1000 males, and a literacy rate of 77.93%.
At the time of the 2011 Census of India, 96.73% of the population in the district spoke Hindi, 1.08% Punjabi, 0.65% Sindhi and 0.61% Marathi as their first language.