| Karauli district | |
| Settlement Type: | District of Rajasthan |
| Total Type: | Total |
| Coor Pinpoint: | Karauli |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | India |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | Rajasthan |
| Subdivision Type2: | Division |
| Subdivision Name2: | Bharatpur |
| Established Title: | Established |
| Established Date: | 995 A.D |
| Seat Type: | Headquarters |
| Seat: | Karauli |
| Parts Type: | Tehsils |
| Parts Style: | para |
| Area Total Km2: | 5043 |
| Population As Of: | 2011 |
| Population Total: | 1,458,248 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Demographics Type1: | Demographics |
| Demographics1 Title1: | Literacy |
| Demographics1 Info1: | 66.22 |
| Demographics1 Title2: | Sex ratio |
| Demographics1 Info2: | 861 |
| Demographics Type2: | Languages |
| Demographics2 Title1: | Official |
| Demographics2 Info1: | Hindi, Rajasthani |
| Demographics2 Title3: | Native |
| Demographics2 Info3: | Rajasthani, Braj Bhasha dialect |
| Leader Title: | District collector |
| Leader Name: | Neelabh Saxena, IAS[1] |
| Leader Title1: | Superintendent of Police |
| Leader Name1: | Brajesh Jyoti Upadhyay, IPS |
| Timezone1: | IST |
| Utc Offset1: | +05:30 |
| Founded By: | Raja Bijaipal[2] |
Karauli District is a district of the state of Rajasthan in western India. It is located in the Braj Bhoomi region. The town of Karauli serves as the administrative headquarters of the district. Karauli district also comes under the Bharatpur Divisional Commissionerate.
The population of Karuali district was 1,458,248 people in the 2011 Indian census, giving a population density of 264PD/sqkm.
Karauli District encompasses an area of . It is bordered by Dholpur district to the east, Bharatpur district to the northeast, Dausa district to the north, and Sawai Madhopur district to the west.[3] Karauli City is located from Gwalior, west of Agra and from the city of Jaipur.
The Chambal River forms the southeastern boundary of the district with the state of Madhya Pradesh, around away from Mandrayal. Although most of Karauli district is composed of hills and valleys, there are no high mountains, with the highest having an elevation less than above sea level.[3]
The district also has a forest which covered an area of in 2011, about 30% of the total geographical area of the district's .
Natural resources found in Karauli district include sandstone, masonry stone, silica sand, soapstone, white clay and some iron ore.
Karauli district's natural environment includes the Vindhya Range and Aravalli Range. The district has both plains and hilly areas.[4] The plains are fertile and the soil present in the area is lightweight and sandy. There are many rivers in the district.
The climate in Karauli district is sunny for most of the year, with the average annual high and low . Extreme temperatures have reached in May and in January.[5] The humidity of Karauli district ranges from 31% to 35% in the dry season with a dew point between and . The annual rainfall is, falling for an average of 35 days per year, concentrated during the South Asian Monsoon from June to September.
Karauli City is the district headquarters of Karauli district, which is divided into eight tehsils, six subdivisions, 223 Panchayats, 881 villages, six Panchayat Samiti, two Nagar Parishad, and one Nagarpalika.
In 2006, the Ministry of Panchayati Raj named Karauli district one of the country's 250 most impoverished districts (out of a total of 640 districts). It is one of the twelve districts in Rajasthan currently receiving funds from the Backward Regions Grant Fund Programme (BRGF).[7]
In the 2011 census of India, Karauli district had a population of 1,458,248,[8] roughly equal to the nation of Eswatini[9] or the US state of Hawaii.[10] This makes it the 340th most populous district in India.[8] The district has a population density of 264PD/sqkm.[8] Its population growth rate from 2001 to 2011 was 20.57%.[8] Karauli has a sex ratio of 858 females for every 1000 males,[8] and a literacy rate of 67.34%. 14.96% of the population lives in urban areas.[8]
After the separation of Todabhim and Nadoti tehsils, the resulting district had a population of 1,056,170. The district had a sex ratio of 858 females per 1000 males. 195,128 people (18.48% of the population) lived in urban areas. Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes made up 267,102 (25.29%) and 209,289 (19.82%) of the population respectively.[8] Hindi is the predominant language, spoken by 99.41% of the population.[11]