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Place details
- Locality
- Churu
- Region
- Rajasthan
- Country
- India
- Population
- 120,157
- Timezone
- Asia/Kolkata
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Rajasthan
- District
- Churu
- Type
- Municipal Council
- Body
- Churu Municipal Council
- Elevation
- 292 m (958 ft)
- Total
- 119,856
- Official
- Hindi and Rajasthani
- Time zone
- UTC+5:30 ( IST )
- Telephone code
- 01562 / +91-1562
- Vehicle registration
- RJ-10
- Website
- Churu Municipal Council , Churu District
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Elevation
- 292
- Official website
- churu.nic.in
- Dialing code
- 1562
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- postal code
- 331001
- Commons category
- Churu
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Article
Churu is a city in the Sekhawati region of Rajasthan state of India. It is known as the gateway to the Thar Desert of Rajasthan. It is the administrative headquarter of Churu District. It lies in the Thar Desert on the National Highway 52 connecting Sangrur to Ankola and is a junction station on the railway line to Bikaner. It is near the shifting sand dunes of the Thar Desert and has grand havelis with marvelous fresco paintings, namely Kanhaiya Lal Bagla Ki Haweli and Surana Haweli, with hundreds of small windows. It also has some fine Chhatris. Near the town is a religious seat of the Nath sect of Sadhus where there are life-size marble statues of their deities and a place for prayers. At the center of the town is a fort built about 500 years ago.
History