Tapi district is one of the 33 districts of

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state in western

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. It has seven

talukas A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluka, or taluk) is a local unit of administrative division in some countries of South Asia. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administr ...

Vyara,

Songadh Songadh is a taluka in Tapi district in the Indian state of Gujarat. Geography Fort Songadh is located at . It has an average elevation of 112 metres (367 feet). The town is located at the foot of a solitary hill, the surroundi ...

, Nizar, Valod,

Uchhal Uchchhal is a village and tehsil in Tapi district in Gujarat Gujarat (, ) is a state along the 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 ...

, Dolavan, Kukarmunda. Vyara town is the district headquarters. Tapi has 523 villages and two municipalities. The district was formed in 2007 out of some talukas that were separated from

Surat district Surat is a district in the state of Gujarat, India with Surat city as the administrative headquarters of this district. It is surrounded by Bharuch, Narmada (North), Navsari (South) districts and east Tapi district To the west is the Gulf o ...

. As of 2011, 90.15% of the district's population is rural and 84.2% of its population is Scheduled Tribes.

Demographics

According to the 2011 census, Tapi district has a

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of 807,022, roughly equal to the nation of Comoros or the US state of

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. This gives it a ranking of 484th in India (out of a total of

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). The district has a population density of . Its

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over the decade 2001-2011 was 12.07%. Tapi has a

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of 1004

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for every 1000 males, and a literacy rate of 69.23%. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes make up 1.01% and 84.18% of the population respectively. At the time of the 2011 Census of India, 49.09% of the population in the district spoke Gujarati, 14.53% Gamit, 9.96% Bhil, 8.02% Vasava, 5.96%

Chaudhari Chaudhari may refer to: * Chowdhury, a traditional title used by the landowners in the Indian and Pakistan subcontinent; now predominantly used as a surname * Chaudhari, Nepal *the Chodri language of Gujarat *an Indian name of the Dangaura Tharu ...

, 2.86%

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, 2.86%

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and 1.81% Kukna as their first language.2011 Census of India, Population By Mother Tongue
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Politics

Notable persons

# Suresh Joshi (1921–1986) Writer and academic. Born in Valod.Mohan, Sarala Jag
Chapter 4: "Twentieth-Century Gujarati Literature"
(Google books link), in Natarajan, Nalini, and Emanuel Sampath Nelson, editors, ''Handbook of Twentieth-century Literatures of India'', Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996, , retrieved 10 December 2008 # Amarsinh Bhilabhai Chaudhary, Former Chief Minister of Gujarat (July 1985 to December 1989)

Tourism

The District shares Purna Wildlife Sanctuary with the Districts of Dang and

Nandurbar Nandurbar is a city and a municipal council in Nandurbar district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. Nandurbar municipal corporation is the first municipal corporation. Nandurbar is an administrative district in the northwest corner of (Kha ...

, the latter of which is in Maharashtra. The sanctuary is a part of the

Dangs' Forest Dang is a district in the southeastern part of the state of Gujarat in western India. The administrative headquarters of the district are located in Ahwa. Dang has an area of 1,764 km² and a population of 228,291 (as of 2011). As of 2011, it ...

References

External links

Official website

Tapi district Panchayat website
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