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THE PEOPLE
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URBAN AND RURAL POPULATION
Like other districts of Maharastra, Kolaba is essentially a district of villages. There are altogether 1,788 inhabited places in the district of which 1,776 are villages and 12 municipal towns, 10.5 per cent of the population of the district living in the urban area and the remaining 89.5 per cent in the rural area. Of the towns three, i.e., Panvel (pop. 14,861), Srivardhan (pop. 10,299) and Mahad have each a population of more than ten thousand; seven, i.e., Murud (pop. 9,744), Uran (pop. 8,672), Pen (pop. 8,607), Alibag (pop. 8,191), Roha (pop. 6,880), Ceul (pop. 6,751) and Revdanda (pop. 5,987) have each a population of more than five thousand; and two, i.e., Mhasla (pop. 2,971) and Matheran (pop. 2,808) which is a hill station, have each a population below five thousand. Of the villages,, except for Canaje in Uran Peta which has a population of 6,100, twenty-eight villages have each a population between 2,000-5,000, 121 between 1,000-2,000, 379 between 500-1,000 and 1,247 below 500.
Density.
With the rural area of 2,670.2 sq. miles and the urban one 42.1
sq. miles, the density, that is the average number of persons per sq. mile, is 304 and 2,281, respectively, for the rural and urban areas of the district.
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