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Varanasi
Varanasi
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| Nickname: The spiritual capital of India | |
  Varanasi Location in Uttar Pradesh  Varanasi Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh)  Varanasi Varanasi (India)  Varanasi Varanasi (Asia) | |
| Coordinates: 25°19′08″N 83°00′46″E / 25.31889°N 83.01278°ECoordinates: 25°19′08″N 83°00′46″E / 25.31889°N 83.01278°E | |
| Country |  India |
| State | Uttar Pradesh |
| Division | Varanasi |
| District | Varanasi |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipal Corporation |
| • Body | Varanasi Municipal Corporation |
| • Mayor | Mridula Jaiswal (BJP) |
| • Divisional Commissioner | Deepak Agarwal, IAS |
| • District Magistrate | Kaushal Raj Sharma, IAS |
| • Inspector General, Varanasi Range | Vijay Singh Meena, IPS |
| • Senior Superintendent of Police | Prabhakar Chaudhary, IPS |
| Area | |
| • Metropolis | 82 km2 (32 sq mi) |
| • Metro | 163.8 km2 (63.2 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 80.71 m (264.80 ft) |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Metropolis | 1,212,610[2] |
| • Rank | 31st |
| • Metro | 1,432,280 (32nd) |
| Language | |
| • Official | Hindi[6] |
| • Additional official | Urdu[6] |
| • Regional | Bhojpuri |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| PIN | 221 001 to** (** area code) |
| Telephone code | 0542 |
| Vehicle registration | UP 65 |
| GDP | $3.07 billion (2016–17)[7] |
| Per capita income | INR 1,93 616[8] |
| Sex ratio | 0.926 (2011) ♂/♀ |
| Literacy (2011) | 80.31%[9] |
| HDI | 0.645[10] |
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Varanasi (Hindustani pronunciation: [ʋaːˈraːɳəsi] (
listen)), also known as Benares,[11] or Banaras (Banāras [bəˈnaːrəs] (listen)), is a city on the banks of the river Ganges in Uttar Pradesh, India, 320 kilometres (200 mi) south-east of the state capital, Lucknow, and 121 kilometres (75 mi) east of Allahabad. A major religious hub in India, it is the holiest of the seven sacred cities (Sapta Puri) in Hinduism and Jainism, and played an important role in the development of Buddhism and Ravidassia. Varanasi lies along National Highway 2, and is served by Varanasi Junction railway station and Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport.
- ↑ "Varanasi: About the city". Official website of Uttar Pradesh Tourism. Archived from the original on 8 July 2013. Retrieved 23 May 2013.
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedurban - ↑ "Varanasi City".
- ↑ "District Census Handbook Varanasi" (PDF). censusindia.gov.in. Retrieved 23 December 2020.
- ↑ "Urban Agglomerations/Cities having population 1 lakh and above" (PDF). Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 October 2013. Retrieved 12 May 2014.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "52nd Report of the Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities in India" (PDF). nclm.nic.in. Ministry of Minority Affairs. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 May 2017. Retrieved 26 December 2018.
- ↑ "Yogi Adityanath is right. Route to UP's $1 trillion GDP goal passes through hinterland". Retrieved 25 September 2019.
- ↑ "Executive Summary" (PDF). Retrieved 29 December 2019.
- ↑ "Slum Free City Plan of Action Varanasi" (PDF).
- ↑ http://ssca.org.in/media/4_2016_HDI_t1hcMZm.pdf
- ↑ The name that appears on the 1909 version official map of India
