AMRAOTI, or UMRAWATTEE  , a town and district of India, in Berar, Central Provinces . The district was reconstituted in 1905, when that of Ellichpur was incorporated with it . The town has a station 6 m. from Badnera junction on the Great Indian Peninsula line . Pop . (1901) 34,216, showing an increase of 22% in the decade . It is the richest town of Berar, with the most numerous and substantial commercial population . It possesses a branch of the Bank of Bombay, and has the largest cotton mart, where an average of 80,593 bojas of cotton are bought and sold annually . It has also a large grain market, cotton presses, ginning factories and oil mills . Amraoti raw cotton is quoted on the Liverpool Exchange . The district of Amraoti has an area of 4954 sq. m . In 1901 the population was 630,245, showing a decrease of 4% in the decade; on the area as now constituted it was 809,499 . The district is an extensive plain, about 800 ft. above sea-level, the general flatness being only broken by a small chain of hills, running in a north-westerly direction between Amraoti and Chandor, with an average height from 400 to 500 ft. above the lowlands .

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principal towns, besides Amraoti, are Karinja, Kolapur, and Badnera, which lies on the Great Indian Peninsula railway, the main line of which crosses the district . Severe drought visited Amraoti in 1899-1900 .