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GENERAL
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BOUNDARIES
The district has a compact shape, with an east-west stretch of about
90 miles and north-south about 75 miles. Administratively it is bordered by the Poona district on the whole of the northern side, by the Sholapur district on the east, by the Sangli district on the southeast and south, and by the Ratnagiri district on the west; only over a length of about 15 miles the Kolaba district borders on the northwest. Although the boundaries of the district are mainly administrative, along several lines these coincide with physical features, in that the Nira river practically forms a border over the entire north, the main Sahyadrian range on the west and south-west, and the Shikhar Shingnapur section of the Mahadeo hills on the east to demarcate to some extent the lands of the Sholapur district.
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