Akkalkot Taluka

Akkalkot Taluka is one of the 11 tehsils of Solapur District in the Indian state of Maharashtra. The tehsil occupies the southeast corner of the district and is bordered by Osmanabad District to the north, Karnataka's Kalaburagi and Bijapur districts to the southeast and south respectively, and South Solapur Taluka to the west. The tehsil headquarters is located at Akkalkot, which is also the largest city in the tehsil and a religious center of the area.

Demographics
As of 2011, the population of the taluka was 314,570, out of which 161,314 were male and 153,256 were female.

At the time of the 2011 census, 54.21% of the population spoke Kannada, 24.28% Marathi, 9.01% Hindi, 7.08% Urdu, 3.11% Lambadi and 1.39% Telugu as their first language.