Jhinjhak

Jhinjhak () is a town and a Municipal council in Kanpur Dehat district, India. The town is situated on the Lower Ganges Canal and is approximately from the industrial city of Dibiyapur.

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Place details

Locality: Jhinjhak
Region: Uttar Pradesh
Country: India
Population: 23,499
Timezone: Asia/Kolkata

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Key facts

Settlement.name: Jhinjhak
Settlement.settlement_type: Town
Settlement.image_skyline: Jhinjhak Railway Station.jpg
Settlement.image_caption: Jhinjhak Railway Station
Settlement.pushpin_map: India Uttar Pradesh
Settlement.pushpin_label_position: right
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location in Uttar Pradesh, India
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1: State
Settlement.subdivision_type2: District
Settlement.subdivision_type3: Lok Sabha constituency
Settlement.subdivision_type4: Assembly constituency
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Uttar Pradesh
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Kanpur Dehat district
Settlement.subdivision_name3: Kannauj
Settlement.subdivision_name4: Rasulabad
Settlement.established_date: 1916
Settlement.founder: British rule

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human settlement
Country: India
Located in: Kanpur Dehat district
Area: 5.432
Elevation: 131
Time zone: UTC+05:30
Official website: www.npjhinjhak.in/Index.aspx
Image: Jhinjhak Railway Station.jpg
Dialing code: 5114

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postal code: 209302
inception: 1916-00-00

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Jhinjhak () is a town and a Municipal council in Kanpur Dehat district, India. The town is situated on the Lower Ganges Canal and is approximately from the industrial city of Dibiyapur.

==Name== According to Paul Whalley, the name Jhīñjhak is derived from a reduplicated form of jhān (a common variant of standard Hindi jhāṛ ("bushes, undergrowth"; ultimately from Sanskrit jhāṭa), with the pleonastic suffix -ka at the end.

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