Danapur
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Danapur Nizamat or Danapur is an Indian satellite town and one of six subdivisions (tehsil) in the Patna district of Bihar state. The population was 182,241 at the 2011 India Census. It is part of the Patna Metropolitan Region. It was constituted as a municipality in 1887. Danapur is also a shelter and hatchery for the migrating Siberian cranes, locally called Janhgil. They visit every year during the monsoon season for breeding and leave this place before the start of the winter season. The Sub-Area Headquarters of Bihar and Jharkhand is situated in the army cantonment here.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Danapur
- Settlement.other_name
- Dinapore/Dinapur, Danapur Nizamat
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City
- Settlement.image_caption
- Station board of Danapur railway station at Khagaul
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- India Bihar
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- right
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Bihar, India
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Bihar
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Division
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Patna
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Patna
- Settlement.subdivision_type4
- UA
- Settlement.subdivision_name4
- Patna
- Settlement.subdivision_type5
- Ward
- Settlement.subdivision_name5
- 40 wards
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Population
- 182241
- Area
- 73
- Image
- Flagstaff ghat on the Ganges at Dinapur, Patna, 1859.jpg
- Households
- 6
- Dialing code
- 06115
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- inception
- 1887-00-00
- male population
- 17
- female population
- 16
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14 sectionsContents
- Administration
- Blocks
- List of villages
- Demographics
- Geography
- Politics
- Education
- Colleges
- Schools
- Nagar Parishad Danapur Nizamat
- Notable people
- See also
- References
- External links
Danapur Nizamat or Danapur is an Indian satellite town and one of six subdivisions (tehsil) in the Patna district of Bihar state. The population was 182,241 at the 2011 India Census. It is part of the Patna Metropolitan Region. It was constituted as a municipality in 1887. Danapur is also a shelter and hatchery for the migrating Siberian cranes, locally called Janhgil. They visit every year during the monsoon season for breeding and leave this place before the start of the winter season. The Sub-Area Headquarters of Bihar and Jharkhand is situated in the army cantonment here.
In 2018, Bihar State Road Development Corporation Limited (BSRDCL) completed the construction work of a ten- metre-wide 10.6 km long road along the western embankment of Digha-Danapur canal (Rupaspur canal). This road also passes underneath the 12.27 km long Digha-AIIMS elevated road (Patli Path) that connects NH-98 near AIIMS Patna to Digha on the Loknayak Ganga Path (or Patna Marine Drive) at Patna.
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