Chhatarpur District is a district of Madhya Pradesh state of central India.
The town of Chhatarpur is the district headquarters.
Geography
Chattarpur district located at 24.06° & 25.20°N 78.59° & 80.26° E respectively.
The district has an area of 8,687 km².
Chhatarpur District is bounded by Uttar Pradesh state to the north, and the Madhya Pradesh districts of Panna to the east, Damoh to the south, Sagar to the southwest, and Tikamgarh to the west.
Chhatarpur District is part of Sagar Division.
Economy
It is one of the 24 districts in Madhya Pradesh currently receiving funds from the Backward Regions Grant Fund Programme (BRGF).
Demographics
According to the 2011 census Chhatarpur District has a population of 1,762,375, roughly equal to the nation of The Gambia or the US state of Nebraska.
This gives it a ranking of 271st in India (out of a total of 707).
The district has a population density of  .
Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was 19.54%.
Chhattarpur has a sex ratio of 884 females for every 1000 males, and a literacy rate of 64.9%.
Scheduled Castes and Tribes made up 23.00% and 4.18% of the population respectively.
At the time of the 2011 Census of India, 74.45%% of the population in the district spoke Bundeli and 24.69% Hindi as their first language.2011 Census of India, Population By Mother Tongue
Chhatarpur district had a population of 1,474,633 (2001 census), a 27% increase from its 1991 population of 1,158,853.
People from Chhatarpur district
Satyavrat Chaturvedi
Asgari Bai - Dhrupad singer and recipient of Padma Shri
Babu Gulabrai - Hindi writer
Virendra Kumar
Jeetendra Singh Bundela
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