Satara District is a
district of
Maharashtra state in western
India with an area of 10,480 km² and a population of 3,003,741 of which 14.17% were urban .
Satara is the capital of the district and other major towns include
Wai,
Karad,
Koregaon,
Koynanagar,
Rahimatpur,
Phaltan,
Mahabaleshwar and
Panchgani. This district comes under Pune Administrative Division along with
Pune,
Sangli,
Solapur and
Kolhapur. The district of
Pune bounds it to the north,
Raigad bounds it to the North-West,
Solapur the east,
Sangli to the south, and
Ratnagiri to the west.