Suratgarh tehsil is the largest administrative region (tehsil) in the

Ganganagar district Sri Ganganagar district is the northernmost district of Rajasthan state of India. History Named after Maharaja Ganga Singh of Bikaner, Sri Ganganagar district was part of Bikaner state. This was a mostly uninhabited region. The history of ...

. It is bordered on the north by Padampur tehsil, on the west by Vijaynagar tehsil and Raisinghnagar tehsil, on the south by Bikaner district, and on the east by Hanumangarh district.

Geography

Suratgarh tehsil is located in the

Thar desert The Thar Desert (), also known as the Great Indian Desert, is an arid region in the north-western part of the Indian subcontinent that covers an area of in India and Pakistan. It is the world's 18th-largest desert, and the world's 9th-large ...

. The seasonal

Ghaggar-Hakra River The Ghaggar-Hakra River () is an intermittent river in India and Pakistan that flows only during the monsoon season. The river is known as Ghaggar before the Ottu barrage at , and as Hakra downstream of the barrage in the Thar Desert. In pre-Ha ...

runs in the northern area of the tehsil and the south region is called Uncha Tibba. The

Indira Gandhi Canal The Indira Gandhi Canal (originally, Rajasthan Canal) project, with total length of to depending on how the length is calculated which either way includes the length of the Rajasthan Feeder Canal and the downstream length of main Indira Gan ...

crosses the tehsil. Dhaban (15 Lks), Sardargarh (11 SGM), Birmana (3 BMM), Peepasar (Rajiasar Station), Ramsaran Jakhran (20 Stb), Ghamandia (6 Gmd), Nirbana (3 Nrd), Raghunathpura (4 Rm), Thukrana, Sanghar (10 Sgr) are major villages in Suratgarh tehsil.

Languages

Suratgarh tehsil Total population is 320981 At the time of the 2011 census of India, in which 71.54% of the population spoke Bagri(Rajsthani), 16.05%

Punjabi Punjabi, or Panjabi, most often refers to: * Something of, from, or related to Punjab, a region in India and Pakistan * Punjabi language * Punjabis, Punjabi people * Punjabi dialects and languages Punjabi may also refer to: * Punjabi (horse), a ...

, 7.86%

Hindi Modern Standard Hindi (, ), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the Standard language, standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in the Devanagari script. It is an official language of India, official language of the Government ...

and 0.69% Marwari(Rajasthani) as their first language.

References

Sri Ganganagar district Tehsils of Rajasthan {{Bikanerdivision-geo-stub