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Garhwa district is one of the 24 districts of the Indian state of Jharkhand. It comes under Palamu division. The district was established on 1 April 1991. It was carved out of Palamu district to form a new district. Area of Garhwa District It is spread over an area of 4,044 km2. District Garhwa shares its borders with the Kaimur and Rohtas districts of Bihar state with the Son River in the north, Palamu district in the east, Sarguja district of Chhattisgarh state in the south and Sonbhadra districts of Uttar Pradesh in the west. The Garhwa district is divided into three subdivisions i.e. Garhwa, Sri Banshidhar Nagar and Ranka, which are further divided into 20 blocks, 156-gram panchayats, and 916 villages. At the time of the creation of the district, the district consisted of only eight blocks viz. Bhandariya, Bhawanathpur, Dhurki, Garhwa, Manjiao, Meral, Nagar Untari and Ranka. Later, eleven more blocks were constructed such as Chinyali, Dandai, Kandi, Kharondhi, Ramkanda, R