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The old city is located on the north shores of the Ganges, bounded by Varuna and Assi. [32] In the Mahabharata and in ancient India, the city is referred to as Kāśī from the Sanskrit verbal root kaś-"to shine", making Varanasi known as "City of Light", [33] [15] the "luminous city as an eminent seat of learning". [34]
The rating includes around 500 cities, covering 72 percent of the urban population in India. Until 2017, India was divided into five zones for the purpose of this survey and each city was scored on 19 indicators. The cities were classified into four colours: green, blue, black, and red, green being the cleanest city, and red the most polluted.
Muzaffarnagar connected by road and railway networks. The Ghaziabad - Saharanpur line passes through the city. Indian Railways provides connections to New Delhi, Western Uttar Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Punjab, South India, and other parts of the country.
Dollar City of India; Baniyan City; Knit Wear Capital of India; Erode: Turmeric City of India; Puducherry (Pondicherry) Paris of the East [ii] City of Dawn; Thoothukudi: Pearl City of India [73] Gateway of Tamil Nadu; Tirunelveli: City of paddy fields [74] Halwa City; Oxford City of South India; Yercaud: Poor Man's Ooty [75] [76] Jewel of the ...
"Pradesh" refers to a province or territory in various South Asian languages. It derives from the Sanskrit प्रदेश pradeśa , meaning "sub-region" or "sub-country". The word was borrowed into other languages to signify "nation" or "country":
Purvanchal (lit. ' Eastern region ') is a subregion of the larger Bhojpuri region. Gorakhpur and Varanasi are important cities in this region. The Lal Bahadur Shashtri International Airport in Varanasi is the largest international airport in this region.
Sarnath (also referred to as Deer Park, [1] [2] [3] Sarangnath, Isispatana, Rishipattana, Migadaya, or Mrigadava) [4] is a town located 8 kilometres (5.0 miles) northeast of Varanasi, near the confluence of the Ganges and the Varuna rivers in Uttar Pradesh, India.
Shahjahanpur (/ ˈ ʃ ɑː dʒ ə ˌ h ɑː n p ʊr /) is a municipal corporation, town and district headquarters of Shahjahanpur District in Western Uttar Pradesh, India. The city is between Bareilly and Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh. This city was established by Diler Khan Dilzak and bahadur Khan Dilzak son of Darya Khan Dilzak