Khemkaran
Sign in to saveKhem Karan is a town and a nagar panchayat in Tarn Taran district of Patti tehsil of the Majha region of the Indian state of Punjab.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Khem Karan
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- India Punjab
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Punjab, India
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Punjab
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Tarn Taran
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Region of Punjab
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Majha
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.population_total
- 13446
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2011
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.demographics_type1
- Languages
- Settlement.demographics1_title1
- Official
- Settlement.demographics1_info1
- Punjabi
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Tarn Taran district
- Population
- 11938
- Elevation
- 194
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Dialing code
- 1851486
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- Khemkaran
- postal code
- 143419
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- India-Pakistan war of 1965
- Demographics
- Geography
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Khem Karan is a town and a nagar panchayat in Tarn Taran district of Patti tehsil of the Majha region of the Indian state of Punjab.
It was the site of a tank battle in 1965. The Battle of Asal Uttar was the second largest tank battle of the 1965 Indo-Pakistani War. The battle led to the creation of Patton Nagar (or Patton City/Graveyard) at the site of the battle viz, Khem Karan.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Khemkaran” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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