Sonipat

Sonipat
Svarnaprastha
City
Sonipat Junction railway station in Sonipat, Haryana
Sonipat Junction railway station in Sonipat, Haryana
Sonipat is located in Haryana
Sonipat
Sonipat
Location in Haryana, India
Sonipat is located in India
Sonipat
Sonipat
Sonipat (India)
Coordinates: 28°59′24″N 77°01′19″E / 28.990°N 77.022°E / 28.990; 77.022
Country India
StateHaryana
DivisionRohtak
DistrictSonipat
Government
 • TypeMunicipal Corporation
 • BodySonipat Municipal Corporation[1]
 • MayorNikhil Madan (INC)[2]
 • Municipal CommissionerSunita Verma, IAS[3]
Area
[4]
 • City
181 km2 (70 sq mi)
Elevation
224.15 m (735.40 ft)
Population
[5]
 • City
382,000
 • Urban
[6]
402,000
Languages[7][8]
 • OfficialHindi, Haryanvi
 • RegionalHaryanvi[9]
Time zoneUTC+5.30 (Indian Standard Time)
PIN
131001
Telephone Code+91-130
ISO 3166 codeIN-HR
Vehicle registrationHR-10, HR-69(Commercial Vehicles), HR-99(Temporary), DL-14 Sonipat (Delhi NCR), HR-86
Sex Ratio1.19
Effective literacy85.48%
Websitesonipat.gov.in

Sonipat is a planned industrial city & administrative headquarter in Sonipat district of Haryana state of India. It comes under the National Capital Region and is around 44 kilometres (27 mi) from New Delhi. It lies 214 km (128 miles) southwest of Chandigarh, the state capital. The Yamuna River runs along its eastern boundary. Sonipat was historically known as Sonprastha.

On 22 December 1972, Sonipat designated a full-fledged district. Sonipat Junction railway station is the main railway junction on Delhi-Kalka line. It lies on Delhi Western Peripheral Expressway, Eastern Peripheral Expressway (NE II) and Grand Trunk Road (NH 44) as well as the planned Delhi–Sonipat–Panipat Regional Rapid Transit System.

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  2. ^ "जानिये- कौन हैं सोनीपत नगर निगम के नए मेयर निखिल मदान, भाजपा-JJP प्रत्याशी को चटाई धूल". Dainik Jagran (in Hindi). 30 December 2020. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
  3. ^ "Administration : Sonipat Municipal Corporation". 15 June 2024.
  4. ^ "About Sonepat". mcsonepat.gov.in. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
  5. ^ "Census of India: Sonipat". www.censusindia.gov.in. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
  6. ^ "Census of India: Sonipat". www.censusindia.gov.in. Retrieved 11 January 2020.
  7. ^ "Report of the Commissioner for linguistic minorities: 52nd report (July 2014 to June 2015)" (PDF). Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities, Ministry of Minority Affairs, Government of India. p. 24. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 November 2016. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
  8. ^ IANS (28 January 2010). "Haryana grants second language status to Punjabi". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
  9. ^ "Haryanvi". Ethnologue. Retrieved 8 February 2020.