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Khambhāt
Gujarat, India · Asia
About Khambhāt
Khambhāt sits on the route: 20 minutes from Dhuwaran.
Khambhāt is in Gujarat, India, with about 99,000 people. You drive on the left here. The nearest town is Dhuwaran, about 17 km away.
Khambhāt (; Gujarati: [kʰəmbʱɑt] ), also known as Cambay, is a city and the surrounding urban agglomeration in Anand district in the Indian state of Gujarat. It was once an important trading center, but its harbour gradually silted up, and the maritime trade moved to Surat. Khambhāt lies on an alluvial plain at theRead more
north end of the Gulf of Khambhāt, noted for the extreme rise and fall of its tides, which can vary as much as thirty feet in the vicinity of Khambat. Khambat is known for its halvasan sweet, sutarfeni, akik stone and kites (patang), and for sources of oil and gas.
Khambhāt is perhaps the only place in India where the Harappan craft of agate bead making is found in the living tradition. Surprisingly Khambhāt has no stone deposits; the craft has survived mainly through acquiring stones from the Rajpipla hills, about 200 km away from the city. Khambhat has historically been an important centre of Jainism, and contains several old Jain temples and collections of Jain palm-leaf manuscripts. In the folklore of Khambhāt, the beginning of the craft is attributed to Baba Ghor, a 1500 AD saint from Ethiopia (Habash) who had led a large contingent of Muslims (Siddi) to settle in the city. However, in the archaeological record the origin of the craft can be traced to nearby Lothal, a Harappan outpost that flourished about 4000 years ago.
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Khambhāt is in Gujarat, India, about 17 km from Dhuwaran.
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- Population
- 99,164
- Continent
- Asia
- Country
- India
- Region
- Gujarat
- Timezone
- Asia/Kolkata
- Coordinates
- 22.3174, 72.6192
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Tropical latitude: plan around the wet season rather than temperature.
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