Large deflection behavior of cylindrically orthotropic thin circular plates is investigated by the numerical technique of differential quadrature. Governing equations are derived in terms of transverse deflection and stress function and a Newton-Raphson technique is used to solve the nonlinear systems of equations. For small values of degree of differential quadrature (N.leq.13), as the degree of differential quadrature increases, the center deflection converges. However, as N increases further, the center deflection diverges by ill-conditioning in the weighting coefficients. As the orthotropic parameter increases, the center deflection decreases and behaves linear for the loads. At center, the stress is affected mainly by orthotropic parameter, while the stress is affected mainly by boundary condition at edge.