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3-454: Akkalkot Taluka is one of the 11 tehsils of Solapur District in the Indian state of Maharashtra . The tehsil occupies the southeast corner of the district and is bordered by Osmanabad District to the north, Karnataka 's Kalaburagi and Bijapur districts to the southeast and south respectively, and South Solapur Taluka to the west. The tehsil headquarters is located at Akkalkot , which
6-785: A sub-division of a district. The current terms have replaced earlier geographical terms, such as pargana and thana . Most subdistricts in India correspond to an area within a district including the designated city , town , hamlet , or other populated place that serves as its administrative centre, with possible additional towns , and usually a number of villages . In the Indian administrative context, states adopt various nomenclatures for their sub-district divisions, including Tehsil , Taluk, Circle, Subdivision, and Mandal . Notably, Tehsil predominates in North Indian states , whereas Taluk
9-637: Is also the largest city in the tehsil and a religious center of the area. As of 2011, the population of the taluka was 314,570, out of which 161,314 were male and 153,256 were female. Languages of Akkalkot taluka (2011) At the time of the 2011 census, 54.21% of the population spoke Kannada , 24.28% Marathi , 9.01% Hindi , 7.08% Urdu , 3.11% Lambadi and 1.39% Telugu as their first language. Tehsils of India India has 28 states and eight union territories , which are divided into divisions comprising several districts. Subdistricts are most commonly referred to as tehsils , which comes under
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