Mewat district (Hindi: मेवात ज़िला) (Urdu: ضِلع ميوات) is one of the 21 districts of Haryana state in northern India. The district was created as the 20th district of Haryana from erstwhile Gurgaon and the Hathin Block of Faridabad districts on 4 April 2005. However, Hathin sub-division was moved to the new district of Palwal in 2008. It is bounded by Gurgaon district on the north, Rewari district on the west and Faridabad and Palwal districts on the east. Nuh is the headquarters town of this district, which occupies an area of 1,859.61 square kilometres (718.00 sq mi) and as of the 2011 India census had a population of 10,89,406. Mewat is predominantly populated by the Meos, who are agriculturalists along with Hindus.