Ghaziabad

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Ghaziabad is a city and municipality located in the Ghaziabad district of Uttar Pradesh, India. It serves as the capital of the district and was established in 1740. The city has a population of 2,375,820 and covers an area of 220 square kilometers. Situated at an elevation of 214 meters above sea level, it lies within the UTC+05:30 time zone.

The official language of Ghaziabad is Hindi. Its postal code is 201001, and the local dialing code is 120. Historically, the region has been part of the Mughal Empire and the British Raj. The city is described in the Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition.

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Place details

Locality: Ghaziabad
Region: Uttar Pradesh
Country: India
Population: 1,199,191
Timezone: Asia/Kolkata

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Key facts

Settlement.name: Ghaziabad
Settlement.settlement_type: Metropolis
Settlement.demographics1_title2: Native
Settlement.demographics1_info2: Khariboli
Settlement.image_caption: Clockwise from Top:Indirapuram Skyline, Kaushambi Skyline, Clock House, Hindon Airport, Shipra Mall and Institute of Management Technology
Settlement.nickname: Gateway of Uttar Pradesh
Settlement.pushpin_map: India Uttar Pradesh#India#Asia
Settlement.pushpin_map_alt: Map of Ghaziabad
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1: State
Settlement.subdivision_type2: Division
Settlement.subdivision_type3: District
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Uttar Pradesh
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Meerut
Settlement.subdivision_name3: Ghaziabad
Settlement.government_type: Municipal Corporation
Settlement.governing_body: Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation
Settlement.leader_title: Mayor

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: municipality
Country: Mughal Empire
Located in: Ghaziabad district
Official language: Hindi
Population: 2375820
Area: 220
Elevation: 214
Time zone: UTC+05:30
Capital of: Ghaziabad district
Official website: ghaziabad.nic.in
Image: New Academic Block & Library, IMT Ghaziabad (cropped).jpg
Dialing code: 120

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topic's main category: Category:Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh
Commons category: Ghaziabad
category of associated people: Category:People from Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh
postal code: 201001
inception: 1740-00-00
category for people born here: Category:Births in Ghaziabad
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described by source: Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition

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Travel guide

Understand

The place was founded in 1740 by the vizir, Ghazi-ud-din, who called it Ghaziuddinnagar after himself and built a spacious sarai consisting of 120 rooms of masonry with pointed arches. Only the gate, a few portions of the boundary wall and a massive pillar about 14 feet in height remains now, the precincts now being inhabited. His masoleum still stands in the city but is in a bad state of preservation. The Jat raja, Surajmal, was killed near the city by the Rohillas in 1763. An encounter between the freedom fighters and a small British force took place here in May 1857, in which the former were defeated while trying to hold the Hindon. After the opening of a railway line, the name of the place was shortened to Ghaziabad.

Before 14 November 1976 Ghaziabad was the Tehsil of District Meerut. The then chief minister Mr. N.D.Tiwari decalered Ghaziabad as a district on 14 November 1976, on the birth anniversary of Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru, the first prime minister of India. From then Ghaziabad has moved forward leaps and bounds on the social, economic, agriculture and individual front.

Ghaziabad, the headquarter of the district of the same name, lies on the Grand Trunk road about a mile east of the Hindon river, 19 km east of Delhi and 46 km southwest of Meerut with which it is connected by a metalled road.

The development is marked by malls all over the city.

Get in

thumb|Ghaziabad Junction railway station

Get around

You can use Delhi Metro trains to get around in Ghaziabad. It extends to Vaishali.

Eat

There is a South Indian restaurant next to Palwal on the highway to Agra, offering so delicious but so costly dosa and idly's.

Travel guide from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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Encyclopedic overview

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Contents

History
Demographics
Population
Government and politics
Representation in state assembly
Law and order
Development
Civic utilities
Municipal finance
Economy
Transportation
Road
Rail
Air
Education
Notable people
Arts, entertainment and television
Business
Politics and government
Sports
References
Further reading
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Ghaziabad () is a city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh and a part of Delhi NCR. It is the administrative headquarters of Ghaziabad district and is the largest city in Western Uttar Pradesh, with a population of 1,729,000. Ghaziabad Municipal Corporation is divided into 5 zones - City Zone, Kavi Nagar Zone, Vijay Nagar Zone, Mohan Nagar Zone and Vasundhara Zone. The Municipal Corporation comprises 100 wards. Well connected by roads and railways, it is a major rail junction for North India. It is part of the Meerut Division of Uttar Pradesh.

It is sometimes referred to as the "Gateway of Uttar Pradesh" because it is close to Delhi, on the main route into Uttar Pradesh. Recent construction work has led to the city being described by a City Mayors Foundation survey as the second fastest-growing in the world. Situated in the Upper Gangetic Plains, the city has two major divisions separated by the Hindon River, namely Trans-Hindon on the west and Cis-Hindon on the east.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ghaziabad” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.