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Bhopal

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Bhopal is the capital city of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh and administrative headquarters of both Bhopal district and division, known as the City of Lakes for the numerous natural and artificial lakes within and around it. The city is internationally remembered for the 1984 Bhopal gas disaster, one of the world's worst industrial accidents, and today serves as a major administrative, educational and commercial center for central India.

Facts
Population
1,798,218 1
Area (sq km)
463 1
Population Estimate Year
2011 1
Elevation (m)
519 1
Raw elevation_m field is 518.73; rounded to the nearest metre for this Int property, same convention the predecessor lane applied to Varanasi (80.71 rounded to 81).
Latitude
23.2589 degrees north 1
The infobox coord template on this article carries no local dms or decimal parameters (verified against the full article wikitext, the only {{coord}} instance on the page); this value is the article coordinate resolved live through the MediaWiki action=query prop=coordinates API against the same page.
Longitude
77.4125 degrees east 1
The infobox coord template on this article carries no local dms or decimal parameters (verified against the full article wikitext, the only {{coord}} instance on the page); this value is the article coordinate resolved live through the MediaWiki action=query prop=coordinates API against the same page.
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Associated With

India, Countries
South Asia, Regions
Sources
1. Bhopal (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Wikipedia article wikitext, Infobox settlement, area_total_km2 field
    463
  • Wikipedia article wikitext, Infobox settlement, elevation_m field
    518.73
  • Wikipedia article wikitext, Infobox settlement, population_total field
    1798218
  • Wikipedia article wikitext, Infobox settlement, population_as_of field
    2011
  • Wikipedia article, resolved page coordinate (action=query prop=coordinates); infobox coord template parameters are empty on this article
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