The Central Provinces.
The territory controlled by the Chief Commissioner of the Central Provinces and Berar has an area of 131,000 square miles and a population of 16,000,000 persons.

Situated in the centre of the Indian Peninsula, between latitudes 17 deg.47' and 24 deg.27' north, and longitudes 76 deg.

and 84 deg.

east, it occupies about 7.3 per cent of the total area of British India.

It adjoins the Central India States and the United Provinces to the north, Bombay to the west, Hyderabad State and the Madras Presidency to the south, and the Province of Bihar and Orissa to the east.