Seoni

 city, taluka headquarter, district headquarter

Tehsil Seoni, District Seoni, Madhya Pradesh.
As per provisional reports of Census India, population of Seoni in 2011 is 102,343 respectively.
Seoni is headquarter of two Tehsils namely Seoni Nagar and Seoni Gramin.
Seoni is a city and a municipality in Seoni district in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh.
Rudyard Kipling used the forests in the vicinity of Seoni, or as he spells it, Seeonee, as the setting for the Mowgli stories in The Jungle Book and The Second Jungle Book (1894–1895), although the area is not an actual rainforest.
The city is half-way between Nagpur and Jabalpur. The city was founded in 1774, and contains large public gardens, a market place and a tank. It has 37% forest cover. The Seoni district is located in the southern part of Madhya Pradesh.

It is bordered by Jabalpur, Narsinghpur and Mandla districts to the north, Balaghat to the east and Chhindwara to the west and the shares its southern boundary with Nagpur (Maharashtra). National Highway No. 7 connects the Kanyakumari-Banaras passes through the district from north to south. Fair weather roads connect the major towns in the district. The narrow-gauge Chhindwara-Nainpur Central Railway passes through Seoni connecting Jabalpur, Nagpur, Chhindwara, Balaghat, Katangi, Keolari and Nainpur.

The River Bainganga's source is located beneath the village Partapur, where it includes various more scenic spots, like the Pench Tiger Reserve within 10 km. The Pench Tiger Reserve is named after the Pench River, which flows from north to south through the reserve, and is located in the southern reaches of the Satpura hill ranges in the Seoni and Chhindwara districts in the Madhya Pradesh state of India. The terrain is undulating, with most of the area covered by small hill ranges, steeply sloping on the sides.

The reserve is situated in an area that holds a significant place in the natural history of Central India. The description of its natural beauty, richness in flora and fauna has appeared in numerous wildlife books dating back to the 17th century. Books written in the 19th and early 20th century by famous naturalists like Captain J. Forsyth and Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book explicitly present the detailed panorama of nature's abundance in this tract.

An extensive forest belt extends in three directions: north, east and south, covering forest tracts of Seoni, Balaghat and Nagpur districts. The contiguous forest on the southern side in the Maharashtra state of India, initially named Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru National Park has been recently included in the Project Tiger network under the same name as this reserve. A dam was constructed on the Pench River on south-eastern boundary of the reserve.

There is a village 45 km west in the Seoni district of "Katalbodi". The Hindu guru Shankara Charya constructed a Shiv Temple here in 2003 in honour of the place in which he was born. He also constructed a big Mahakaleshwar Mandir in Dighori village, which is situated on the north side of Seoni and is 16 km away from this town.

Another attraction of Seoni is 'Baidhnath Pvt Ltd' company which employs five thousand workers. This company was started in the year 2000 with the help of the state government.

Seoni is also known for its contribution in the independence of India.