Bharatpur, Rajasthan

Bharatpur is a city in the Indian state of Rajasthan, 189 kilometres south of New Delhi, 184 kilometres from the state capital Jaipur, 56 kilometres west of Agra and 36 kilometres from Mathura. It is the administrative headquarters of Bharatpur district and of Bharatpur Division, is part of the National Capital Region, and was the capital of the former Bharatpur State. The English Wikipedia article says the region belonged to the Matsya Kingdom, one of the sixteen ancient Mahajanapadas, and that the city became a municipal corporation with 65 wards in 2014. Its festivals include the Braj Holi Festival and the Jaswant exhibition and fair held during Dussehra. The 2011 census counted 252,838 people, of whom 71.61 percent recorded Hindi and 26.25 percent Braj Bhasha as their language.