Mehsana District
| Mehsana District | |
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| district | |
 Location of district in Gujarat |
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| Country |
 India
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| State | Gujarat |
| Headquarters | Mehsana |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Gujarati, Hindi, English |
| Time zone | IST (UTC+5:30) |
| Vehicle registration | GJ -2 |
| Website | mehsanadp |
Mehsana district (Gujarati: મહેસાણા જિલ્લો) (alternate spelling "Mahesana") is one of the 33 districts of Gujarat state in western India. Mehsana city is the administrative headquarters of this district. The district has a population of over 18 lakhs and an area of over 4,500 km². There are over 600 villages in this district. It had a population of 1,837,892 of which 22.40% were urban as of 2001.
Mehsana district borders with Banaskantha district in the north, Patan and Surendranagar districts in west, Gandhinagar and Ahmedabad districts in south and Sabarkantha district in the east.
Major towns of the district are Vijapur, Bahucharaji, Modhera, Unjha, Vadnagar, Kalol, Kadi, Visnagar, Kherva, Jotana and Khadalpur, Sanganpur.Kheralu.
Several Indus Valley Civilisation sites like Loteshwar are located in this district.
Historically parts of this district have been broken off for the formation of new districts.
Mehsana district consists 11 talukas. These are Becharaji, Kadi, Kheralu, Mahesana, Vadnagar, Vijapur, Visnagar, Satlasana, Jotana, and Unjha.
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