The district that houses the High Court of Madhya Pradesh also holds a railway zone headquarters and an Army command for five states

Background

Jabalpur, the district where the High Court of Madhya Pradesh sits, covers 5,211 sq km and has Jabalpur town as its headquarters. Its population is 24,63,289, of whom 12,77,278 are males and 11,86,011 are females, and it has 1,514 villages. The language of the district is Hindi. Besides the High Court, Jabalpur holds the headquarters of West Central Railway and the Army headquarters for five states, namely Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Bihar and Jharkhand. The city was a historical centre of the Kalachuri and Gond dynasties, with a culture shaped by intermittent Mughal and Maratha rule.