Yeola

Yeola Yevla
Town
Bharatratna Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Mooktibhoomi Smarak at Yeola
Yeola Location in Maharashtra, India
Coordinates: 20.042°N 74.489°E / 20.042; 74.489
Country	India
State	Maharashtra
District	Nashik
Founded by	Raghuji Baba Shinde
Population  (2011)
• Total	49,826
Demonym	Yeolekar
Languages
• Official	Marathi
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)

Yeola (Marathi pronunciation: [jeːʋlaː]) (pronunciation^ⓘ) is a town, a municipal council, and a taluka headquarters in Nashik District in the Indian state of Maharashtra.

Demographics

As of the 2011 census of India, Yeola, listed in the census as Yevla Municipal Council, had a population of 49,826, including 25,582 males and 24,244 females. Children aged 0-6 numbered 6,005, and the town had 39,801 literates.

Geography

Yeola is 83 kilometres from Nasik on Nasik-Aurangabad Highway and 26 kilometres south of Manmad on the Manmad–Ahmednagar road. Yeola is 33  kilometres from Shirdi and is 260 kilometres northeast of Mumbai. It has a station on the Ahmednagar–Manmad rail route. Aurangabad Airport, Nasik/Ozar Airport, Shirdi Airport and Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport are the nearest airports.

Notable people

• Tatya Tope
• Yadunath Thatte
• Swami Muktananda
• Lalita Pawar
• Chhagan Bhujbal

See also

• Yeola (Vidhan Sabha constituency)