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{{India Districts

|Name = Jabalpur

|Website = http://jabalpur.nic.in

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'''Jabalpur District''' is a [[Districts of Madhya Pradesh|district]] of [[Madhya Pradesh]] state in [[Central India|central]] [[India]]. The city of [[Jabalpur]] is the administrative headquarters of the district.

The area of the district is 10,160 km² with of population 2,167,469 (2001 census). Jabalpur District is located in the [[Mahakoshal]] region of Madhya Pradesh, on the divide between the watersheds of [[Narmada River|Narmada]] and the [[Son River|Son]], but mostly within the valley of the Narmada, which here runs through the famous gorge known as the Marble rocks, and falls 30 ft. over a rocky ledge (the ''Dhuan dhar'', or misty shoot ). It consists of a long narrow plain running north-east and south-west, and shut in on all sides by highlands. This plain, which forms an offshoot from the great valley of the Narmada, is covered in its western and southern portions by a rich alluvial deposit of black cotton-soil. At Jabalpur city the soil is [[black cotton soil]], and water plentiful near the surface. The north and east belong to basin of the [[Son River]], a tributary of the [[Ganges]] and [[Yamuna]], the south and west to the Narmada basin. The district is traversed by the main railway from [[Mumbai]] to [[Kolkata]], and by branches of two other lines which meet at [[Katni]] junction.