Thane taluka is a taluka in Thane district of Maharashtra state in Konkan division.
Thane taluka consists of three municipal corporations—Mira-Bhayandar, Thane and Navi Mumbai—and also few small villages. These three cities lies respectively on northern, north-eastern and eastern boundaries of Mumbai.
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Demographics
As per the 2011 Census of India, Thane Taluka has a population of 3,787,036. The sex-ratio of Thane Taluka is around 872 compared to 929 which is the state average of Maharashtra.
The literacy rate of Thane Taluka is 79.57% out of which 82.13% males are literate and 76.63% females are literate. The total area of Thane is 400.04 km
2 with population density of 9,467 per km
2.
Language
At the time of the 2011 Census of India in the Thane Taluka, 44.07% of the population in the district spoke
Marathi language, 22.37%
Hindi, 8.73%
Urdu, 6.15% Gujarati, 3.01%
Bengali language, 2.42% Bhojpuri, 2.27%
Marwari language, 1.69%
Malayalam, 1.66%
Kannada language, 1.35%
Tamil language and 1.28%
Telugu language as their first language.
Religion
Thane district
Until 31 July 2014, Thane was the country's most populous district with a population of over 12 million.
On 1 August 2014, the talukas of
Mokhada taluka,
Jawahar taluka,
Talasari taluka, Vikramgadh,
Wada taluka,
Dahanu taluka,
Palghar taluka and
Vasai taluka were separated from the erstwhile Thane district to form a new district
Palghar district. The talukas Thane,
Bhiwandi taluka,
Kalyan taluka, Ulhasnagar,
Ambernath taluka,
Murbad taluka and
Shahapur taluka were retained in Thane district.