Chikhli is a city and a Municipality

Municipality

A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...

 in Navsari district

Navsari district

Navsari is an administrative district in the state of Gujarat in India, with its headquarters at Navsari city. The district covers an area of 2,211 square kilometres, and had a population of 1,229,250 in 2001.Dudhia Talao:...

  in the state of Gujarat, India

India

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. Chikhli comes under the purview of Surat Metropolitan Region

Surat Metropolitan Region

The Surat Metropolitan Area/Surat Metropolitan Region is a metropolitan area consisting of the Indian metropolis of Surat and its satellite towns. Developing over a period of about 18 years, it consists of one municipal corporation, 7 municipalities and 6 Counter Magnets...

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Geography

Chikhli is located at 20.75°N 73.07°E. It has an average elevation of 19 metres (62 ft).

Chikhli is the smallest city in the region of South Gujarat

South Gujarat

South Gujarat also known as Deccan Gujarat or Dakshin Gujarat is a region in Indian state of Gujarat. The region is one of the wettest region of India. The region is divided into two parts: 1) Western Part. 2) Eastern Part...

. About 25 km north from the city of Valsad

Valsad

Valsad , formerly known as Bulsar, is a city and a municipality in the Valsad district of the Indian state of Gujarat. The city has a collectorate, a district court, and a police headquarters with a historic prison...

 city and about 10 km east from the city and rail junction of Bilimora

Bilimora

Bilimora is a city situated on banks of river Ambika and a municipality in Navsari district in the state of Gujarat, India. The city comes under the purview of Surat Metropolitan Region. The city is roughly 70 km south of the city of Surat and is the south most end of Surat Metropolitan...

, Chikhli is on the Indian National Highway 8

Indian National Highway 8

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, from where state highways reaching Ahwa

Ahwa

Ahwa is the headquarters of Dang District in the state of Gujarat, in India. Ahwa is also only one tehsil in dang district. Ahwa is connected with Vansda, Navapur, Vyara, Nasik, Babulghat and Songadh by road. GSRTC bus are available from here. Nearest railway station are Bilimora and Waghai...

 via Waghai

Waghai

Waghai is a town in the Dang District of the southern part of Gujarat state in India.Waghai is about 32 km north from the district headquarter of Ahwa, and about 52 km south of the hill station of Saputara...

 and Vansda, and to the hill station of Saputara

Saputara

Saputara is a city and a Hill Station Municipality in the Dang District of Gujarat state in India.-Geography:This picturesque hill station is perched on a plateau in the Dang forest area of the Sahyadri Range. At an altitude of about 1000 m...

 bifurcate.

Nearest railway station is Chikhli Road railway station on the Bilimora - Vaghai narrow gauge line. Approx. 6 km from Chikhli.

It has small rivar i.e. Kaveri & it is going to be goog market place for nearer all village.

Demographics

India census

Census

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, Chikhli had a population of 6953. Males constitute 51% of the population and females 49%. Chikhli has an average literacy rate of 81%, higher than the national average of 59.5%; with male literacy of 85% and female literacy of 76%. 10% of the population is under 6 years of age.

Popular Places

Mallikarjun Temple

Temple

A temple is a structure reserved for religious or spiritual activities, such as prayer and sacrifice, or analogous rites. A templum constituted a sacred precinct as defined by a priest, or augur. It has the same root as the word "template," a plan in preparation of the building that was marked out...

, An old temple of lord Shiva

Shiva

Shiva is a major Hindu deity, and is the destroyer god or transformer among the Trimurti, the Hindu Trinity of the primary aspects of the divine. God Shiva is a yogi who has notice of everything that happens in the world and is the main aspect of life. Yet one with great power lives a life of a...

 is situated on bank of a seasonal lake in a village Majigam (1/2 km from Chikhli). This site is famous for a shooting of a legendary film Mother India

Mother India

Mother India is a 1957 Hindi film epic, written and directed by Mehboob Khan and starring Nargis, Sunil Dutt, Rajendra Kumar and Raaj Kumar. The film, a melodrama, is a remake of Mehboob Khan's earlier film, Aurat...

 starring Sunil Dutt

Sunil Dutt

Sunil Dutt , born Sunil Balraj Dutt, was an Indian Hindi movie actor , producer, director and politician. He was the cabinet minister for Youth Affairs and Sports in the Manmohan Singh government...

, Raj Kumar

Raaj Kumar

Raaj Kumar , born Kulbushan Pandit was an Indian actor in Hindi movies. Raaj Kumar started out as sub-inspector of Mumbai police in the late 1940s before he turned to acting with the 1952 film Rangili...

 and Nargis

Nargis

Nargis Dutt , born Fatima Rashid but known by her screen name, Nargis, was an Indian film actress. She is widely regarded as one of the greatest actresses in the history of Hindi cinema. She made her screen debut as a child in Talash-E-Haq in 1935, but her acting carer began in 1942 with Tamanna...

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Choseth Joginimata [Temple] was also famous for Bali before 20 years ago.

Cosmopolitan

Chikhli is a major business hub to 86 smaller villages and has drawn more consumers towards it then any other major town like Valsad and Navsari. Chikhli is known for several different things. Its a major bus connection place. It has historical temples all around it. Mallikarjun is a shiv temple located southwest of the town. It also boast a Chamunda Ma temple in the heart of the town built by the Kshatriya community of Chikhli, a LaxmiNarayan temple, a shiv temple on the bank of Kaveri river and several other notable temples are located in chikhli. Chikhli is also very well known for its khaman- a sponge cake made of chickpea and chilli. However, it also very famous for its goat meat, and kebabs made from it. Near 5 kilometer a villages known as Pipalgabhan is very well known for it chicken kebab. Chikhli was originally a population mix of Kshatriya, Desai, Vaishnavs, Gandhi communities. Of late, in the last decade, people from North gujarat, North U.P., and Rajasthan have made chikhli their new home, also due to the closed vicinity of the city of Mumbai can be considered as a reason. Recently, Chikhli has been in the news for a 48 carats (9.6 g) Natural Pearl found from a Pearl Farm, which is the only one in Gujarat.

Latest Fact

Chikhli is Overtaking its Neighboring City Bilimora by All ways ie: Residence, Industries, Education, Work Place and a Better Place to Reside.