North Gujarat
Region of Gujarat, India
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Currently, the water table of the region is dropping 6 meters every year.
Linguistics (Dialect)
The dialect of Gujarati spoken here is Uttar Gujarati which also has two varities Patani and Mehsani. Mehsani, also referred as 'Mehoni' in native accent is spoken in the districts of Mehsana, Sabarkantha and Gandhinagar. In Uttar Gujarati, 'Chhe' of Standard Gujarati is replaced with 'se', 'sa', 'he' or 'ha' and 'aa' sound becomes 'aw'. Uttar Gujarati is rich with many such linguistic differences.
According to the 2011 Census, this region has a population of 10,319,646 people.
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Cities and districts
Gandhinagar is the largest city in the region.
Other important cities are Palanpur, Patan, Mehsana, Himmatnagar, Modasa, Sidhpur, Kalol,Kadi, Unjha and Visnagar.
Districts in the region are Banaskantha district, Mehsana district, Sabarkantha district, Patan district (the largest), Gandhinagar district, Aravalli district and Vav-Tharad district.
Universities
Tourism
Prehistory
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.
Education
- Banas Medical College and Research Institute, Palanpur
- Sardarkrushinagar Dantiwada Agricultural University
- Government Engineering College, Palanpur
- North Gujarat University, Patan
- Government Engineering College, Patan
- Government Engineering College, Modasa
- Government Engineering College, Gandhinagar
- IIT Gandhinagar
- Gujarat Technological University
- Gujarat Technological University School of Engineering and Technology
- Ganpat University
Rivers
- Banas River
- Saraswati River
- Sabarmati River

