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Place details

Locality
Phillaur
Region
Punjab
Country
India
Population
24,688
Timezone
Asia/Kolkata

via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames

Key facts

Settlement.name
Phillaur
Settlement.native_name
Phulnagar
Settlement.native_name_lang
pan
Settlement.settlement_type
Town
Settlement.pushpin_map
India Punjab#India
Settlement.pushpin_label_position
right
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
Jalandhar
Settlement.established_date
12th century
Settlement.founder
Chaudhary Phul Rai Sanghera Jatt
Settlement.unit_pref
Metric
Settlement.elevation_m
234
Settlement.population_total
178,198
Settlement.population_as_of
2021

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

8 sections
Contents
  • Overview
  • History
  • Geography
  • Demographics
  • Composition of ''Jai Jagdish Hare''
  • Villages in Phillaur Tehsil
  • References
  • External links

Phillaur is a town and a municipal council as well as a tehsil in Jalandhar district in the Indian state of Punjab. The city is situated 20 km from Ludhiana, 45 km from Jalandhar and 140 km from Amritsar. It is situated on the border of the Doaba and Puadh regions.This city was Founded by a Rajput Maharaja Ratan Pal Naru, during the 12-13th century to 1947 as Kingdom of Phulnagar, but later came to be known as Phillaur.

== Overview ==

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

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