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Dumas Beach
Black-sand Arabian-sea beach 21 km from Surat.
Navratri (Garba) falls on Sunday, 11 October 2026 across Surat district and the rest of Gujarat.
Nine nights of Garba and Dandiya Raas circling a perforated earthen lamp, the garbo, or an image of Amba — dancers moving anticlockwise, singing and clapping together. Garba of Gujarat was inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in December 2023, the fifteenth element from India to join it.
The regional form observed across Gujarat. How any one household or village keeps it varies, and is not something recorded here.
14 mandal centroids, sized by Census 2011 population. Tap a mandal to open its page.
Centroids from LGD/OSM. Not a survey map.
76 PIN codes across the district's villages. Open one for its village list, post office and nearby PINs.
Surat is a district of Gujarat with 14 talukas, 566 gram panchayats and 820 revenue villages, administered from —. The population is 60,81,322 (Census 2011) across — km². The largest villages are Hajira (16,724 people, Chorasi), Kamrej (16,078 people, Kamrej), Olpad (15,898 people, Olpad). Pincodes in the district start with —.
Surat is a district in Gujarat. Editorial copy not yet contributed — claim a village to start adding context.
92% of world's diamond polishing, MMF textiles, kite festival.
Black-sand Arabian-sea beach 21 km from Surat.
1546 riverfront fort built to defend against Portuguese raids.
17th-c. Dutch trader graves + period architecture.
Aggregated from village fixtures + OpenStreetMap. Numbers will rise as the LGD + OSM ingest covers more villages in Surat district.
Click any taluka to see its villages, posts, and local services.
Villages with the most posts, contributors, and verified residents this month.
Answers are auto-built from the village's verified record. If something is wrong, residents can correct it after claiming the village.
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