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Gandhinagar
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About Gandhinagar
Gandhinagar sits on the route: 10 minutes from Pethāpur.
Gandhinagar is in Gujarat, India, with about 290,000 people. You drive on the left here. The nearest town is Pethāpur, about 5 km away.
Gandhinagar (Gujarati: gāndhīnagara, pronounced [ˈɡɑːndʱinəɡəɾ(ə)] ) in India is the capital of the state of Gujarat and of Gandhinagar district. Gandhinagar is located approximately 23 kilometres (14 mi) north of Ahmedabad, on the west central point of the industrial corridor between the megacities of Delhi andRead more
Mumbai.
Gandhinagar lies on the west bank of the Sabarmati River, about 545 kilometres (339 mi) north of Mumbai and 901 kilometres (560 mi) southwest of Delhi.
The Akshardham temple is located in Gandhinagar. There was a determination to make Gandhinagar a purely Indian enterprise, partly because the state of Gujarat was the birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi. For this reason, the planning was done by two Indian town planners: Prakash M Apte and H. K. Mewada, who had apprenticed with Le Corbusier in Chandigarh.
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Gandhinagar is in Gujarat, India, about 5 km from Pethāpur.
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- Population
- 292,797
- Continent
- Asia
- Country
- India
- Region
- Gujarat
- Timezone
- Asia/Kolkata
- Coordinates
- 23.2167, 72.6833
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