Gondiya is an administrative district in the state of Maharashtra in India. The district headquarters are located at Gondiya. The district occupies an area of 5431 km² and has a population of 1,200,151 (as of 2001). Districts are a form of local government in several countries. ... Maharashtra (महाराष्ट्र) is a state in west-central India. ... The Republic of India is the second most populous country in the world, with a population of more than one billion, and is the seventh largest country by geographical area. ... This article explains the meaning of area as a physical quantity. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... In the most common sense of the word, a population is the collection of people—or organisms of a particular species—living in a given geographic area. ... 2001 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...