Mahasamund is an important city that is situated in the Mahasamund District. The district is an administrative district in the newly formed state of the Indian sub continent. The Mahasamund city is the district headquarters. It is situated in the eastern side of the state of Chhattisgarh, bordering on the state of Orissa.
The city of Mahasamund covers an area of about three thousand nine hundred and two square kilometers. The global location of the city is between the latitudes of twenty degrees forty-seven minutes to twenty-one degrees thirty-one minutes and thirty seconds and the longitudes of eighty-two degrees and eighty-three degrees, fifteen minutes and forty-five seconds.
The city of Mahasamund is very rich in various kinds of mines and has huge possibility of large-scale mining. As registered in the 2001 census, Mahasamund District has the total population of eighty-six thousand, one hundred and seventy-six. The population density of the place is two hundred and twenty people per square kilometer.
A number of tribes inhabit the district of Mahasamund. The total population of the tribes is about twenty-eight percent. Some of the important tribes that live in the district of Mahasamund are:
* Munda,
* Pardhi,
* Bahalia,
* Saur,
* Bhujia,
* Binjhwar,
* Dhanwar,
* Saharia,
* Sonar,
* Sanwara,
* Kharwar,
* Halba,
* Kamar,
* Kanwar and
* Kharai
Some of the places of tourist interest in and around the city of Mahasamund are:
* Sirpur
* Laxman Temple
* Anand Prabhu Kudi Vihar
* Swastik Vihar
* Gandheswar Temple
While some of these tourist destinations are of historical and archeological interests, the others are ancient temples and Buddhist Vihars and religious buildings. These make wonderful tourist sights and satisfy the visitors urge to know the unknown and experience the never before felt pleasure.
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Chhattisgarh-District
bastar bilaspur dantewada
dhamtari durg janjgir
jashpur kanker karwardha
korba koria mahasamund
raigarh raipur rajnandgaon
surguja
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