Amgaon
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Amgaon is a town and a tehsil
Tehsil
A Tehsil or Tahsil/Tahasil , also known as Taluk and Mandal, is an administrative division of some country/countries of South Asia....

 in Deori subdivision of Gondia district
Gondia District
Gondia district , also known as Gondiya district, is an administrative district in the state of Maharashtra in India. The district headquarters are located at Gondia . The district occupies an area of 5,431 km² and has a population of 1,200,707 of which 11.95% were urban...

 in Nagpur Division
Nagpur Division
Nagpur Division is one of six administrative divisions of Maharashtra State in India. Nagpur is the easternmost division in the state, with an administrative headquarters in the city of Nagpur...

 in the Berar region in the state of Maharashtra
Maharashtra
Maharashtra is a state located in India. It is the second most populous after Uttar Pradesh and third largest state by area in India...

, India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

. Amgaon is believed as the birth place of well known Sanskrit poet Bhavabhuti
Bhavabhuti
Bhavabhuti was an 8th century scholar of India noted for his plays and poetry, written in Sanskrit. His plays are considered equivalent to the works of Kalidasa...

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Location

Amgaon is 150 km from Nagpur, on Kurla
Kurla
Kurla is a suburb of Mumbai. It is also the name of one the busiest railway stations on the Mumbai suburban railway on the central and harbour railway lines of Mumbai...

 - Howrah railway line. It is near the border of Chhattisgarh
Chhattisgarh
Chhattisgarh is a state in Central India, formed when the 16 Chhattisgarhi-speaking South-Eastern districts of Madhya Pradesh gained separate statehood on 1 November 2000....

 and Madhya Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh
Madhya Pradesh , often called the Heart of India, is a state in central India. Its capital is Bhopal and Indore is the largest city....

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Amgaon Railway Station (code AGN) is under Nagpur
Nagpur
Nāgpur is a city and winter capital of the state of Maharashtra, the largest city in central India and third largest city in Maharashtra after Mumbai and Pune...

 Division of South East Central Railway
South East Central Railway
The South East Central Railway is one of the sixteen railway zones in India. It is headquartered at Bilaspur and comprises Nagpur division, reorganized Bilaspur division of South Eastern Railway and new Raipur division....

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Economy

Amgaon is informally known as the Rice city. There are around 40 rice mills in the area. Various Usna Rice industries are here. Usna rice is mainly sold to other states.

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