Satara district (ind)

Satara district

Satara district ranks 5,572nd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Zhucheng, Renton, Washington, and North Carolina. Memorable people born in Satara district include Shriram Lagoo, Shobhaa De, and Lalita Babar. Memorable people who died in Satara district include Kashibai. Satara district has been the birth place of many athletes, and actors and the death place of many companions. Satara district is located in India.

Satara district is a district of Maharashtra state in western India with an area of 10,480 km2 (4,050 sq mi) and a population of 3,003,741 of which 14.17% were urban. Satara is the capital of the district and other major towns include Medha, Wai, Karad, Malkapur, Umbraj, Koregaon, Rahimatpur, Dahiwadi, Koynanagar, Phaltan, Lonand, Mahabaleshwar, Panchgani, Vaduj and Mhaswad. This district comes under Pune Administrative Division along with Pune, Sangli, Solapur and Kolhapur. The district of Pune bounds it to the north, Raigad bounds it to the north-west, Solapur the east, Sangli to the south, and Ratnagiri to the west.Satara is home to number of maratha warriors such as Hambirrao Mohite,Prataprao Gujar,Tanaji Malusare,Shindes of Kanherkhed etc Read more on Wikipedia