Ratnagiri district


Ratnagiri district is one of the 36 districts of Maharashtra, India. Ratnagiri is the district headquarters of the district.Chiplun is a Financial capital of Ratnagiri. The district is 11.33% urban. The district is bounded by the Arabian Sea to the west, Sindhudurg district to the south, Raigad district to the north and Satara, Sangli and Kolhapur districts to the east. This district is part of Konkan division.

Divisions

There are nine talukas in Ratnagiri district, they are Ratnagiri, Rajapur, Lanja, Sangmeshwar, Chiplun, Guhagar, Khed, Dapoli and Mandangad. There are five Maharashtra Vidhan Sabha constituencies in this district. These are:
  1. Rajapur
  2. Ratnagiri
  3. Guhagar
  4. Chiplun
  5. Dapoli

    Demographics

According to the 2011 census Ratnagiri district has a population of 1,615,069, roughly equal to the nation of Guinea-Bissau or the US state of Idaho. This gives it a ranking of 311th in India. The district has a population density of . Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was -4.96%. Ratnagiri has a sex ratio of 1123 females for every 1000 males, and a literacy rate of 82.43%.
At the time of the 2011 Census of India, 88.18% of the population in the district spoke Marathi, 7.36% Urdu and 1.87% Hindi as their first language.

Notable people

Ratnagiri has the distinction of being the native place of notable personalities including: