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LOCATION 
Aurangabad District is located mainly in Godavari Basin and its some part towards North West of Tapi River Basin. This District's general down level is towards South and East and North West part comes in Purna –Godavari river basin. The Aurangabad district's North Longitude ( Degree) is 19 and 20 and East Longitude (Degree ) is 74 to 76.

FORESTS
In Aurangbad district total Forest Area is 135.75 Sq.Km. As compare to Maharashtra the forest area of Aurangabad is 9.03%.

MOUNTAINS
There are three mountains namely
1) Antur – its height is 826 Mtr.
2) Satonda – 552 Mtr.
3) Abbasgad – 671 Mtr. and Ajintha 578 Mtrs. Average Height of Southern portion is 600 to 670 mtrs.

RIVER
The main rivers In Aurangabad district are Godavari and Tapi and also Purna, Shivna, Kham . Dudhna, Galhati and Girja rivers are the sub rivers of Godavari.

AREA
The Aurangabad District's total area is 10,100 Sq. Kilo Mtrs. Out of which 141.1 Sq. Km is Urban area and 99,587 Sq. Km is Rural Area.

CLIMATE
In Aurangabad rainy season starts from the month of June to September- and October to February-Winter Season and March to May Summer Season. The Average rain fall of Aurangabad District is 734 mm and the Minimum Temperature is 5.6 D.C. Maximum Temperature is 45.9 D.C.

LANGUAGES
In Aurangabad district as per the Census 2001 total population is 28,97,013 and peoples mainly speaks Marathi, Hindi, English and Urdu language.