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Some of these local name changes were changes made in all languages: the immediate local name, and also all India's other languages. An example of this is the renaming of predominantly Hindi-speaking Uttaranchal (Hindi: उत्तराञ्चल) to a new local Hindi name (Hindi: उत्तराखण्ड Uttarakhand). Other changes ...
Prairie City → Toledo — in Cumberland County; name now used by Prairie City, McDonough County; Prospect Park → Glen Ellyn — in DuPage County; Rand → Des Plaines — in Cook County; Randall → East Galesburg — in Knox County; Rantoul → Alma — in Marion County; name now used by Rantoul, Champaign County; Reeves → Cambria — in ...
East Punjab to Punjab (change effective from 26 January 1950; state later trifurcated into modern-day Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Punjab under the Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966; Chandigarh became a Union territory and the shared capital city of Punjab and Haryana) [1] [2] United Provinces to Uttar Pradesh (change effective from 24 January 1950)
This partial list of city nicknames in India compiles the aliases, sobriquets and slogans that cities in India are known by (or have been known by) historically, officially, or unofficially, to locals, outsiders, or their tourism chambers of commerce.
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It is planned to replace Raipur as the capital city of Chhattisgarh. [2] [3] The Government of Chhattisgarh, the state's administrative body is situated here. The city is located between National Highway 53 and National Highway 30, about 17 km south-east of the capital city Raipur. Swami Vivekananda Airport separates Raipur and Nava Raipur.
Chhattisgarh, a state of India, has 33 administrative districts. At the time of separation from Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh originally had 16 districts. Two new districts: Bijapur and Narayanpur were carved out on 11 May 2007 [1] and nine new districts on 1 Jan 2012. The new districts have been created by carving out the existing districts to ...