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{{Short description|Region of Gujarat, India}}

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Region of Gujarat, India

Region in West India, India

North Gujarat, the Northern part of Indian state of Gujarat includes the districts of Gandhinagar, Banaskantha, Patan, Aravalli, Mehsana Sabarkantha and Vav-Tharad district. Patan city is the administrative headquarters of North Gujarat. There Are Two Municipal Corporations in North Gujarat, Mehsana And Gandhinagar. North Gujarat is dominant in the dairy industry.

Currently, the water table of the region is dropping 6 meters every year.^[1]

The dialects of Gujarati in this region differ from each other and from dialects in other parts with minor differences. All dialects have the common difference from Gujarati in that the word “chhe” is replaced by “she” or “sh”.^{[citation needed]}

According to the 2011 Census, this region has a population of 10,319,646 people.^{[citation needed]}

Gandhinagar is the largest city and Patan district is the largest district in the region.

Important cities are Gandhinagar, Palanpur, Patan, Mehsana, Himmatnagar, Modasa, Sidhpur, Kalol,Kadi, Unjha & Visnagar.

The districts in the region are Banaskantha district, Mehsana district, Sabarkantha district, Patan district, Gandhinagar district, Aravalli district and Vav-Tharad district.

Evidence of prehistoric settlements in North Gujarat were first discovered in 1893 by British geologist Bruce Foote. Archeological expeditions in the 1940s and 1950s that microlithic-using hunter-gatherers, agro-pastoralists, early farmers, and Harappan settlements all coexisted at the Langhnaj site located in the Mehsana district of Gujarat.^[2][3]

• Lack of planting of trees
• Over-cutting of trees
• Providing excessive labor for tree cutting factories. (Mehsana and Patan districts, talukas: Unjha, Siddhpur)
• Lack of preservation of trees by the system.
• The rate of new trees being planted against trees being cut down is negligible.
• Groundwater level going down by 6 meters every year.

1. Plantation of large number of trees by Sadbhavana Ashram (areas around roads)