Narsinghpur district

Narsingpur District is a of   in. The town of is administrative headquarters of the district.

The district has an area 5,133 km², and a population 957,399 (2001 census), a 22% increase from 1991. The district is part of the of. It is bounded on the north by and  districts, on the east by, on the southeast by , on the south by , on the west by , and on the northwest by. The administrative seat and chief town is Narsinghpur; other towns include, , , and. The district sits in the basin of the, which forms the northern boundary of the district. The forms the district's southern boundary. The main rail line from to  (Kolkata), which follows the  valley, runs through the district from west to east.

At the beginning of the, Narsinghpur District in the domain of the  Maharajas of , but was ceded to the  in. Narsinghpur District was part of the Nerbudda (Narmada) Division of the, which became the state of Madhya Pradesh after India's independence in.