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Geography of Sehore District
Geography of Sehore district possesses a number of big and small rivers flowing through it. This district is having its borders as the district of Dewas, Bhopal, Raisen, Shajapur, Rajgarh and Hoshangabad.

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Geography of Sehore District, Madhya PradeshGeography of Sehore district covers an area of about six thousand five hundred and seventy eight square kilometres. The Sehore district in the Madhya Pradesh state stands in the foothills of Vindhyachal Range in the middle of Malwa Plateau Region. The district of Sehore is thirty-nine kilometres away from the capital city of Bhopal towards south on Bhopal-Indore highway.

The Sehore district is located at an altitude of fifteen hundred feet to two thousand feet above the level of sea. This district in the state of Madhya Pradesh is also connected to the Western Railway from Bhopal to Ratlam. The district of Sehore is positioned in between twenty two degree thirty one minutes and twenty three degree forty minutes to the North latitude and seventy six degree twenty two minutes and seventy eight degree eight minutes to the East longitude.

The Sehore district is having its borders with six different districts, which include the Dewas District, Bhopal district, Raisen district, Shajapur district, Rajgarh district and the Hoshangabad district. The area covered by this district in the state of Madhya Pradesh in India is six thousand five hundred and seventy eight square kilometres.

The average rainfall received by this district is 1261.1 millimetre, while the average minimum temperature is 7.9 degree Celsius and the average maximum temperature is 42.4 degree Celsius. The total area of this district covered by forest is 1, 72,554 hectares and the net irrigated area is 1, 14,041 hectares and the gross cropped area in this district is 4,55,3 hectares. The total area of the district put to non-agricultural uses is 42,773 hectares and the gross cropped area of the district of Sehore is 4,55,3 hectares.

For drinking water, there are hand pumps in nine hundred and ninety four villages and tap water in seventy villages in the district of Sehore in the state of Madhya Pradesh. There are several big and small rivers, which flow through the district of Sehore, and some of them are Narmada River, Ajnal River, Parvati River, Kolar River, Seep River, Utawali River, Amber River, Dudhi River, Seewan River, Nevaj River, Kaliasot River, etc.


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