Tapi district explained

Tapi district
Settlement Type:District of Gujarat
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: India
Subdivision Type1:State
Subdivision Name1:Gujarat
Seat Type:Headquarters
Seat:Vyara
Governing Body:Nagar Palika
Leader Title:District Collectorate
Unit Pref:Metric
Area Total Km2:3139
Population Total:807,022
Population As Of:2011
Population Density Km2:auto
Demographics Type1:Languages
Demographics1 Title1:Official
Demographics1 Info1:Gujarati, Hindi
Timezone1:IST
Utc Offset1:+5:30
Postal Code:394650
Registration Plate:GJ 26
Area Code:02624, 02625, 02626, 02628
Image Map1:Tapi in Gujarat (India).svg
Map Caption1:Location of district in Gujarat

Tapi district is one of the 33 districts of Gujarat state in western India. It has seven talukas: Vyara, Songadh, Nizar, Valod, Uchhal, Dolavan and 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.[1]

Demographics

According to the 2011 census, Tapi district has a population of 807,022,[2] roughly equal to the nation of Comoros[3] or the US state of South Dakota.[4] This gives it a ranking of 484th in India (out of a total of 640).[2] The district has a population density of 234PD/sqkm .[2] Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 12.07%.[2] Tapi has a sex ratio of 1004 females for every 1000 males,[2] and a literacy rate of 69.23%. 9.85% of the population lives in urban areas. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes make up 1.01% and 84.18% of the population respectively.[2]

At the time of the 2011 Census of India, 49.09% of the population in the district spoke Gujarati, 14.53% Gamit, 9.96% Bhili, 8.02% Vasava, 5.96% Chaudhari, 2.86% Hindi, 2.86% Marathi and 1.96% Kukna as their first language.[5]

Politics

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Notable persons

  1. Suresh Joshi (1921–1986) Writer and academic. Born in Valod.[6]
  2. 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, the latter of which is in Maharashtra. The sanctuary is a part of the Dangs' Forest.[7] [8]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: About Tapi. Government of Gujarat.
  2. Web site: District Census Hand Book – Tapi . . Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India.
  3. Web site: US Directorate of Intelligence . Country Comparison:Population . https://web.archive.org/web/20070613004507/https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2119rank.html . dead . 13 June 2007 . 2011-10-01 . Comoros 794,683 July 2011 est..
  4. Web site: 2010 Resident Population Data. U. S. Census Bureau. 2011-09-30. South Dakota 814,180.
  5. Web site: Table C-16 Population by Mother Tongue: Gujarat . censusindia.gov.in . Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India.
  6. 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
  7. Web site: Mahal Eco Campsite . Gujarat Tourism . 2017-01-25.
  8. Web site: Significant bird records and local extinctions in Purna and Ratanmahal Wildlife Sanctuaries, Gujarat, India . Pranav . Trivedi . V. C. . Soni . Forktail . 22 . 2006 . 14 November 2022 .

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