Gorakhpur
Gorakshapuram | |
|---|---|
 clock wise from top left to left bottom, Gorakhnath Temple, AIIMS Gorakhpur, Gita Press and Indian Air force Base | |
  Gorakhpur  Gorakhpur | |
| Coordinates: 26°45′49″N 83°24′14″E / 26.7637152°N 83.4039116°E | |
| Country |  India |
| State |  Uttar Pradesh |
| District | Gorakhpur |
| Division | Gorakhpur |
| Named for | Gorakhnath |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipal Corporation |
| • Body | Gorakhpur Municipal Corporation |
| • Mayor | Manglesh Kumar Srivastava[2] (BJP) |
| • Lok Sabha MP | Ravi Kishan, (BJP) |
| • Municipal Commissioner | Avinash Singh[3] |
| Area | |
• GMC | 226.0 km2 (87.3 sq mi) |
| • Metro [1][5][6] | 1,041.0 km2 (401.9 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 75 m (246 ft) |
| Population | |
• GMC | 1,300,000 |
| • Density | 5,800/km2 (15,000/sq mi) |
| • Metro | 2,500,000[1][5][6] |
| Demonym(s) | Gorakhpuri, Gorakhpuriya |
| Language | |
| • Official | Hindi[10] |
| • Additional official | Urdu[10] |
| • Regional | Bhojpuri[11] |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| PIN | 2730xx |
| Telephone code | +91-0551 |
| Vehicle registration | UP-53 |
| Sex ratio | ♂1000/903♀ |
| Avg. annual temperature | 26 °C (79 °F) |
| Avg. summer temperature | 40 °C (104 °F) |
| Avg. winter temperature | 18 °C (64 °F) |
| Website | gorakhpur |
Gorakhpur is a city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, along the banks of the Rapti river in the Purvanchal region. It is situated 272 kilometres east of the state capital, Lucknow. It is the administrative headquarters of Gorakhpur district, North Eastern Railway Zone and Gorakhpur division. The city is home to the Gorakhnath Math, a Gorakhnath temple. The city also has had an Indian Air Force station since 1963. Gita Press, the world's largest publisher of Hindu religious texts like Ramayana and Mahabharata, has been established here since 1926.[a][12][13]
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- ^ "Gorakhpur Nagar Nigam". nagarnigamgkp.org. Retrieved 14 November 2021.
- ^ "NIC GORAKHPUR 2011 CENSUS". Government of India, NIC. 2020. Retrieved 19 May 2021.
- ^ a b Gupta, Anurag (20 November 2021). "गोरखपुर भी महानगर क्षेत्र घोषित-यूपी सरकार ने जारी की अधिसूचना, अब हो सकेगा मेट्रो का संचालन". Dainik Jagran (in Hindi). Retrieved 20 November 2021.
- ^ a b द्विवेदी, रामगोपाल (31 December 2021). "गोरखपुर के विकास के लिए 2031 तक का मास्टर प्लान तैयार, शहरी सीमा का ढाई गुना होगा विस्तार". News18 हिंदी (in Hindi). Retrieved 31 December 2021.
- ^ "outer-village-of-gorakhpur-included-in-municipal-corporation-boundary". Amarujala.
- ^ "बढ़ गया नगर निगम गोरखपुर का दायरा, अब संझाई समेत ये 32 गांव होंगे शहरी". Amarujala. 23 December 2020.
- ^ "एक लाख और बढ़ गई गोरखपुर शहर की आबादी,छह और गांव होंगे शहरी". Dainik jagran. 7 March 2020.
- ^ a b "52nd Report of the Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities in India" (PDF). nclm.nic.in. Ministry of Minority Affairs. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 May 2017. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
- ^ "Bhojpuri". Ethnologue. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
- ^ "Gita Press | Hindu publishing organization". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
- ^ Verma, Lalmani (28 July 2022). "A century old, how Gita Press came to be 'leading purveyor of print Hinduism'". The Indian Express. Retrieved 20 October 2022.
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