Anuppur district


Anuppur District is an administrative district in Shahdol Division of Madhya Pradesh state in central India.
The district has an area of 3701 km², and a population of 749,237. 309,624 people are from scheduled tribes and 48,376 are scheduled castes. The district is bordered by Koriya District of Chhattisgarh state on the east, Bilaspur District of Chhattisgarh on the southeast, Dindori District of Madhya Pradesh on the southwest, Umaria District of Madhya Pradesh on the west, and Shahdol District on the northwest and north. The administrative headquarters of the district is Anuppur.
The district has one Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, and Indira Gandhi National Tribal University, a central university at Amarkantak.
The district was created on 15 August 2003 out of Shahdol District. It is part of Shahdol Division.
Anuppur district is mostly hilly and forested. The Narmada River originates from the hill of Amarkantak in the Maikal Hills, and the Son River originates nearby.

Demographics

According to the 2011 census, Anuppur district has a population of 749,237, roughly equal to the nation of Guyana or the US state of Alaska. This gives it a ranking of 492nd in India. The district has a population density of . Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 12.35%. Anuppur has a sex ratio of 975 females for every 1000 males, and a literacy rate of 69.08%.
Barbaspur near Bhaloo mada coal mines is the biggest village of the Anuppur district.

Languages

At the time of the 2011 Census of India, 96.83% of the population in the district spoke Hindi and 2.23% Gondi as their first language.
Vernaculars spoken in Anuppur include Bagheli, which has a lexical similarity of 72-91% with Hindi and is spoken by about 7,800,000 people in Bagelkhand.

Education