Geography of Satna district in Madhya Pradesh comprises of mountains, hills, rivers, plateau, etc. The district of Santa is located in between twenty three degree fifty minutes and twenty five degree twelve minutes to the north latitude and eighty degree twenty one minutes and eighty one degree twenty three minutes to the east longitude in the mid-northern parts of Rewa Commissioner`s division in Madhya Pradesh state of India.
The district takes its name from Satna, the headquarters town. In the northern parts, the district boundary marches with that of Banda district in the state of Uttar Pradesh. Eastern boundary of the district runs with the Teonther, Sirmour and Huzur tehsils of Rewa district and a very small portion of the Gopadbanas tehsil of Sidhi district. The entire western boundary of the district is made by Panna district while the southern boundary abuts on the Murwara tehsil of Jabalpur district in the west and Bandhogarh tehsil of Umaria district and Beohari tehsils of Shahdol district on the east.
The total area covered by the Satna district is 74, 2432 hectares. This district is situated on the Vindhyan Plateau. The southern portion of Nagod tehsil below twenty-four degree and thirty minutes in the north latitude is a hilly country comprising a tangled mass of low hills, and enclosing considerable stretches of level ground. The general slope of the country of the tehsil is towards the east, inclined towards the north in the centre of the tehsil. Tons River, Son River, and Paisuni River are the important rivers of the district of Satna, which drain into the Bay of the Bengal through the Ganga River. The Kymore and the Panna hills act as water-divides. Most of the rivers flow towards the east, with an inclination towards the north. The Simrawal and the Satna rivers are, however, inclined towards the south.
Forest in the district is included in the Rewa forest division with headquarters at Rewa. Forests are mostly mixed forests, which covers an area of nine hundred square miles in the district, extending over four ranges with headquarters at Satna, Majhgawan (both in Raghuraj Nagar tehsil) Maihar and Nagod. Common animals found in the forests are tiger (Felis tigris), panther (Felis pardus), chital (Axis axis), sambhar (Rusa unicolor), wild bear (Melursus ursinus), deer, etc.
Similar to other part of the state of Madhya Pradesh, the district of Satna receives its rainfall from the precipitation of the Arabian Sea monsoon. From the month of June to September are the months when most of the rainfall is received. The downpour, as well as the number of rainy days is more in the months of July and August. The year is more or less divided into three seasons; namely the hot season extending roughly from mid-February to mid-June; the rainy season from mid-June to September and the winter from November to mid-February. The month of October witnesses a transition from the rainy to cloudy weather.
