Jalgaon district



Jalgaon District (जळगाव) is a district of. It was formerly known as East Khandesh District. It has an area of 11,765 km², and a population of 3,682,690 (2001 census) of which 28.59% were urban. 

It is bounded by state on the north, and by the districts of  to the east,  on the southeast,  on the south,  on the southwest, and  on the west.

Rivers and lakes
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Here are some towns of Jalgaon District: ,, , , , [Bhadgaon], , , , , , , , and.

Agriculture
Major crops produced in this district are banana, cotton, wheat, millet, lime, groundnut and sugarcane.

Industries

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 * Emco Transformers
 * Dal mills

Divisions
The district consists 15 talukas (tahsils). These are, , , , , , , , , , , , , and. The Jalgaon city is the administrative headquarters of this district. There are 12 Vidhan Sabha constituencies in this district. They are Chalisgaon (SC), Parola, Amalner, Chopda, Erandol, Jalgaon, Pachora, Jamner, Bhusaval, Yaval, Raver and Edlabad. Erandol and Jalgaon are the two Lok Sabha constituencies of the district.

Places of interest
In the district include, , , , Pal & Yawal,Padmalaya, Patanadevi Parola : Shree Balaji, , and Adgaon: Satpuda Manudevi Temple.

Ajanta Caves are only 50 kms from Jalgaon.

The famous photographer and connessieur, Sanjoy Bannerjee, the world famous Vedic Mathematician Arya Bhatt belongs to Jalgaon District. It's also a karmabhumi of Sane Guruji and great marathi poet Balkawi.PRESIDENT of INDIA Pratibhatai Patil, suresh ujjainwal

Media
The major Marathi newspapers published from the Jalgaon city are Deshdoot, Deshonnati, Lokmat and Sakal. journalist Harshvardhan Pawar, vijay Rajhans