Shamgarh
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Shamgarh is a town and a nagar panchayat
Nagar Panchayat
A nagar palika or nagar panchayat is a form of an urban political unit in India comparable to a municipality.An urban centre with more than 30,000 and less than 100,000 inhabitants is classified as a nagar panchayat....

 in Mandsaur district
Mandsaur District
Mandsaur District is a District of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. The town of Mandsaur is the administrative headquarters of the district.-Origin of name:...

 in the India
India
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 of 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....

. It is an important railway station on Delhi-Mumbai Railway track where Almost every train (except Rajdhani Express) stops.

Geography

Shamgarh is located at 24.18°N 75.63°E. It has an average elevation of 459 metre
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s (1505 feet). It is near to Mandsaur. Shamgarh is famous for Jangda Porwal's. There are so many families residing here belongs to Porwal Community. It is one of the Hindu Communities.
shiv temple is the famus in distric mandsaur.

Demographics

India census
Census
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, Shamgarh had a population of 21,455. Males constitute 52% of the population and females 48%. Shamgarh has an average literacy rate of 69%, higher than the national average of 59.5%: male literacy is 79%, and female literacy is 59%. In Shamgarh, 15% of the population is under 6 years of age.
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