Vidisha district

The district is bounded by the districts of Ashoknagar to the northeast, Sagar to the east, Raisen to the south, Bhopal to the southwest, and Guna to the northwest.{{cite web|url = http://www.mponline.in/Profile/districts/Vidisha.asp

| title = Vidisha |publisher =mponline |access-date = 2010-08-19 }}

Vidisha district lies on the Vindhyachal Plateau off the main Vindhyachal Range. The plateau slopes from south to north and is drained by a number of rivers – the Betwa, the Bina and the Sindh. These rivers flow between spur flanges of the Vindhyachal Range, that spread out on the Malwa Plateau.{{cite web|url = http://www.vidisha.nic.in/ | title =Vidisha |publisher = District administration|access-date = 2010-08-19 }}

The district lies between 23⁰ 20’ and 24⁰ 22' north latitudes, and 77⁰16’ and 78⁰18’ east longitudes. It covers an area of 7,371 km².

The district is home to the historic city of Besnagar and the Buddhist stupa at Sanchi.

Vidisha was the second capital of the Shunga Empire during the later years. The district was created as "Bhilsa District" in 1904 by joining the tehsils of Vidisha (also known as Bhilsa) and Basoda, but not Basoda State, which were then part of Gwalior state. After India's independence in 1947, the former princely state of Gwalior became part of Madhya Bharat state, which was formed in 1948. The Bhilsa District was enlarged in 1949 by the addition of the small princely state of Kurwai State. The district took its present form in 1956, when Madhya Bharat state, Bhopal State, and the tehsil of Sironj, then part of Rajasthan state and previously part of the princely state of Tonk, were both merged into Madhya Pradesh state. Sironj tehsil and the small pargana of Piklone from Bhopal state were merged into Vidisha District.

• List of Tehsil of District Vidisha;{{cite web | url=https://vidisha.nic.in/en/tehsil/ | title=Tehsil | District Vidisha, Government of Madhya Pradesh | India }}

1. Vidisha Urban
2. Vidisha Rural
3. Ganj Basoda
4. Gyaraspur
5. Kurwai
6. Lateri
7. Nateran
8. Sironj
9. Gulabganj
10. Pathari
11. Shamshabad
12. Tyonda

{{historical populations|11=1901|12=2,27,998|13=1911|14=2,96,966|15=1921|16=3,48,047|17=1931|18=3,45,818|19=1941|20=3,83,347|21=1951|22=3,86,075|23=1961|24=4,89,213|25=1971|26=6,58,427|27=1981|28=7,83,098|29=1991|30=9,70,388|31=2001|32=12,14,857|33=2011|34=14,58,875|percentages=pagr|footnote=source:{{cite web |title=Table A-02 Decadal Variation in Population Since 1901: Madhya Pradesh |url=https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/43356/download/47048/23%20A-2%20Madhya%20Pradesh.pdf |website=census.gov.in|publisher=Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India}}|align=center}}

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According to the 2011 census Vidisha District has a population of 1,458,875,{{Cite web |date=2011 |title=District Census Handbook: Vidisha |url=https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/770/download/2730/DH_2011_2326_PART_A_DCHB_VIDISHA.pdf |website=Census of India |publisher=Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India}} roughly equal to the nation of Eswatini{{cite web | author = US Directorate of Intelligence | title = Country Comparison:Population | url = https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2119rank.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070613004507/https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2119rank.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = 13 June 2007 | access-date = 2011-10-01 | quote = Swaziland 1,370,424}} or the US state of Hawaii.{{cite web|url=http://2010.census.gov/2010census/data/apportionment-pop-text.php|title=2010 Resident Population Data|publisher=U. S. Census Bureau|access-date=2011-09-30| quote =Hawaii 1,360,301}} This gives it a ranking of 341st in India (out of a total of 640). The district has a population density of {{convert| 198 |PD/sqkm|PD/sqmi}} . Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 20.03%. Vidisha has a sex ratio of 897 females for every 1,000 males, and a literacy rate of 72.08%. 23.28% of the population live in urban areas. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes make up 20.03% and 4.63% of the population respectively.

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|label2 = Urdu |value2 = 4.57 |color2 = green

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At the time of the 2011 Census of India, 94.96% of the population in the district spoke Hindi and 4.57% Urdu as their first language.{{Cite web |url=https://censusindia.gov.in/nada/index.php/catalog/10211/download/13323/DDW-C16-STMT-MDDS-2300.XLSX |title=Table C-16 Population by Mother Tongue: Madhya Pradesh |website=censusindia.gov.in|publisher=Registrar General and Census Commissioner of India}}

• Neelkantheshwar or Udayeshwar Temple, Udaypur
• Maladevi Temple, Gyaraspur
• Udayagiri Caves, Udayagiri
• Heliodorus pillar, Vidisha
• Vidisha District Museum
• Lohangi Pir, Vidisha
• Hindola Torana, Gyaraspur
• Gadarmal Devi Temple, Pathari

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• [https://vidisha.nic.in/ Official website]

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