Shahgarh is a town and a

tahsil A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluk, or taluka () is a local unit of administrative division in India and Pakistan. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administrative ce ...

Sagar district Sagar district () is a Districts of Madhya Pradesh, district of Madhya Pradesh States and territories of India, state in central India. The town of Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, Sagar serves as its administrative center. Sagar district is called the ...

in the

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of Madhya Pradesh. Its connected with National Highway No. 86 Route, National Highway 539 and MP SH 37.

Geography

Shahgarh is located at . It has an average elevation of 411 metres (1,348 feet).

Demographics

At the 2001 India

census A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ...

, Shahgarh had a population of 14,585. Males constituted 52% of the population and females 48%. Shahgarh had an average literacy rate of 62%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy was 69% and female literacy 53%. 18% of the population were under 6 years of age.

References

Sagar, Madhya Pradesh Cities and towns in Sagar district Tehsils of Sagar district {{MadhyaPradesh-geo-stub

Geography

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