Shevgaon is a city in

Shevgaon tehsil Shevgaon taluka, is a taluka in Ahmednagar subdivision of Ahmednagar district in Maharashtra State of India India, officially the Republic of India ( Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the ...

Ahmednagar Ahmednagar (), is a city located in the Ahmednagar district in the state of Maharashtra, India, about 120 km northeast of Pune and 114 km from Aurangabad. Ahmednagar takes its name from Ahmad Nizam Shah I, who founded the town in 1 ...

in the

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of Maharashtra Many villages of this tehsil were submerged by the floodwater of the

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in the 1970s. Shevgaon used to be known as Shivgram, because there were five

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around the city.

Demographics

According to the 2011

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, Shevgaon has a population of 38,375, including 19,442 males and 18,993 females. There are 8,013 families, and 12.7% of the village population is children. Shevgaon village has a slightly higher

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than Maharashtra as a whole, at 82.43% literate.

References

{{reflist Cities and towns in Ahmednagar district