Nuapada District in brief ... .. .

Nuapada ... .. .

Located in the western part of Orissa, Nuapada is a district of Orissa, It lies between 20° 0' N and 21° 5' No latitudes and between 82° 20' E and 82° 40' E longitudes. Its boundaries extend in the north, west and south to Raipur district in Madhya Pradesh . In the east to Bargarh, Balangir and Kalahandi districts. This district is spread over in an area of 3852km˛ . The administrative headquarters of the district is located at Nuapada.

The District of Nuapada was a part of Kalahandi District till early March 1993. For the administrative convenience, Kalahandi District was divided into two parts i.e. Kalahandi and Nuapada in 27 March 1993. Nuapada District now comprises one sub-division (Nuapada), two tehsils (Nuapada and Khariar) and five Community Development Blocks (Khariar, Sinapalli, Boden, Nuapada and Komna).

The plains of Naupada subdivision fringed by rugged hill ranges stretch southward, which belong to the main line of the Eastern Ghats and contain extensive plateaus of about 4000 ft in elevation with long tropical grass grown over them. They contain such mineral deposits of laterite, graphite and bauxite.

The hill sides rising up precipitously from the plains are covered with dense sal forests. The forests of the district are managed under Forest Division namely Khariar Division. Timber is by far the major forest produce and sal is no doubt, a major constituent of these products.