Dhule district

Dhule District (धुळे जिल्हा) is a of  state in central. The district is the northern tip of. The city of is the administrative headquarter of the district.

The district previously comprised of tracts of land predominantly inhabited by tribal population. The district was then bifurcated on 1st of July 1998 into two separate districts now known as  and, the later comprising the tribal region. Agriculture remains the basic profession of the population in this district. Most parts of the district are not under irrigation and thus cultivation heavily depends on regular or rain water. Apart from wheat, bajra, jowar or jwari, onion the most favored commercial crop is cotton. Majority of the population in the rural area speaks (a dialect of ) language, however  is more widely spoken in the urban areas. Around 26.11% population of district resides in urban area. The District is a part of 's historical region of. Although for administrative purpose it is now clubbed to.

Divisions
The district is further divided into two sub-divisions and four for administrative purposes. Dhule and Sakri talukas are part of Dhule sub-division while Sindkheda and Shirpur talukas are part of Shirpur sub-division.

There are five constituencies in this district. These are Sakri (ST), Shirpur, Sindkheda, Kusumba and Dhule.

Dhule is the only constituency in this district. Shirpur Vidhan Sabha constituency is part of Nandurbar (ST) Lok Sabha constituency.