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India/Satna City: State of Madhya Pradesh Part 27 (HD)

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Satna City: State of Madhya Pradesh The Satna City (Cement City), is the principle town of Satna District (सतना) of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, which shares a border with neighbouring Uttar Pradesh. Satna - not to be confused with Satana - is a municipal corporation within Satna District, and houses the administrative headquarters of Satna District. Satna has been selected as one of the hundred Indian cities to be developed as a smart city under PM Narendra Modi's flagship initiative the Smart Cities Mission Location: Satna district is situated between latitudes 23" 58' and 25"12' north and longitudes 80"21' and 81"23' east in mid northern part of Rewa Commissioner's Division in Madhya Pradesh state of India. The districts takes its name from Satna, the chief municipality of the district, which in its turn takes it from the Satna Rewa river which flows near the town.In the north, the district share borders with the Banda District of Uttar Pradesh state. Eastern Bombay of the district runs with the Teonther, Sirmour and Huzur tehsils of Rewa district and a very small questions of the Gopadbanas tehsil of Sidhi District. The entire western boundary of the district is made by Panna district while the southern boundary abuts on the Murwara tehsil of Jabalpur district in the west and Bandhogarh tehsil of Umaria district and Beohari Tehsils of Shahdol district on the east. Language and people Hindi is the most commonly spoken language of the town. Some people speak Bagheli dialect which is a derivative of Hindi in this region. Other less-spoken languages include Sindhi, Punjabi, English, and Hindi. However, many people generally prefer speaking proper Hindi. Satna is the 7th most populated city in Madhya Pradesh. Railways Satna Junction railway station (IRCTC code STA) is a station in Western-Central railway division on the route between Jabalpur Junction and Allahabad. It is a junction and the branch goes to Rewa from here. The railway station has three platforms with all up going trains (trains in the direction of Mumbai) normally using platform number 1 and all down going (trains in direction of Allahabad-Manikpur) using platforms 2 and 3. Satna is well connected by train to almost all major cities of the countries. It lies on the Howrah–Allahabad–Mumbai line, a train route connecting Mumbai and Howrah. There is also a diesel depot for the Western Central Railway. Satna junction is the most prominent junction of the Jabalpur Railway division providing maximum income due to its high degree of loading and unloading of cement, petroleum etc. All trains passing from Satna Junction stop here which ultimately shows its importance. 3 of them have technical stoppage while the rest have commercial stoppage. ISO certified trains such as Rewanchal Express are the trains of the area. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satna