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Sri Ganganagar district is a northernmost district of Rajasthan state in western India.HistoryNamed after Maharaja Ganga Singh of Bikaner, Sri Ganganagar district was part of Bikaner state. This was a mostly uninhabited region. The history of this district is testimony to the vision and efforts of Maharaja Ganga Singh, who visualised and built the Gang Canal after the Indian famine of 1899–1900. The waters of the Sutlej River were brought into the region through the 89-mile long Gang Canal in 1927, turning this region into a breadbasket of Rajasthan.GeographyLocation and areaSri Ganganagar District is located between Latitude 28.4 to 30.6 and Longitude 72.2 to 75.3 The total area of Sri Ganganagar is 11,154.66 km² or 1,115,466 hectares. It is surrounded on the east by Hanumangarh District, (Hanumangarh district was carved out of it on July 12, 1994) on the south by Bikaner District, and on the west by Bahawalnagar district of the Pakistani Punjab and on the north by the Punjab.Tehsils and other townsGanganagar tehsilsThere are following ten tehsils in Ganganagar district. Sri Ganganagar Sri Karanpur, headquarters in the town of Karanpur Sadulshahar Padampur Raisinghnagar Suratgarh Anoopgarh Shri Vijaynagar GharsanaRawla Mandi