Surat District's total area is 4,418 km2, and the density of Surat District was 1,376 per km2 at the 2011 Census. The region has the highest population density in the State, followed by Ahmedabad region.
Places of tourist interest in Surat are the old fort build by Muhammad- Bin- Tughlaq, the Unai hot spring, the beautiful beaches of Ubharat and Tithal, the villages of Bardoli and Dandi where Gandhiji started Satyagraha movement and Dandi march respectively. The Vansada National Park in Surat is famous for the wild boars, leopards, tigers, panther it houses.
Surat has many Historical monuments and tourist places in Surat. Some of them are:
Clock Tower
Mughal Sarai
Dutch Cemetery
English Cemetery
Gore Gariba Kabrastan
Tomb of Khudawand Khan
Heritage Square
Heritage walkway
Surat Castle
Museums
The Sardar Patel Museum
Saraswati Mandir
Beaches, dams and lakes
Suvali Beach
Dumas Beach
Umbharat Beach
Ukai Dam
Gopi Talav
Gavier Lake
Shubhas Sarovar,Mora Bhagal
Amusements, parks and zoos
Sarthana Nature Park
Bharthana National Park
althan National Park
Jagdishchandra Bose Aquarium
Blues Adventures
Science Centre
Jawaharlal Nehru Garden also known as athwalines Chowpaty
Dutch Garden
Sneh Rashmi Botanical Garden
Navinchandra Mafatlal Garden
Lake-view Garden
Floral Park,Surat
Victoria Garden
Kasturba Garden
Joggers Park
Libraries
Andrews Library
Nanpura Parsi Library
Kavi Narmad Central Library
Bihar became the first state in India to have separate web page for every city and village in the state on its website www.brandbihar.com (Now www.brandbharat.com)
See the record in Limca Book of Records 2012 on Page No. 217