Sagar district

Sagar District is a of   in central. The town of serves as its administrative center.

The district has an area of 10,252 km², and a population of 2,021,783 (2001 census), a 23% increase from its 1991 population of 1,646,198. Sagar is bounded by of  state to the north, and the Madhya Pradesh districts of  to the northeast,  to the east,  to the south,  to the southwest,  to the west, and  to the northwest.

Sagar District is an extensive, elevated and in parts tolerably level plain, broken in places by low hills of the sandstone. It is traversed by numerous streams, chief of which are the, , and  rivers, all flowing in a northerly direction towards the valley of the. In the southern and central parts the soil is black, formed by decaying trap; to the north and east it is a reddish-brown alluvium. Iron ore of excellent quality is found and worked at Hirapur, a small village in the extreme north-east. The district contains several densely wooded tracts, the largest of which is the Ramna forest preserve in the north.