Daman is a city on India's western coast that serves as the administrative capital of the union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu. The Daman Ganga river divides it into Nani-Daman and Moti-Daman, and the 2011 census recorded a city population of 44,282 within a wider Daman district population of 191,173. Hindi and Gujarati are its official languages, and the nearest major city is Vapi in neighboring Gujarat.
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1. GeoNames: Daman
GeoNames geonameid 1273618 (Daman), cities500/allCountries bulk dump, matched by primary name + country + coordinates within 25km (w-bbfill-geography6-0926)View the Source 2. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 20.25, 72.75Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 20.25, 72.75
20.25 72.75 Aw
3. GeoNames: Daman - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 1273618, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)Quote, cities500 record 1273618, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
20.41431 72.83236 P PPLA IN 52 495 3948 44282 11 Asia/Kolkata
Daman, India (Wikipedia)
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Daman (IPA: [d̪əmən]) is a city and the administrative capital of the Indian union territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu.
- In Group: Cities of Southern Asia (World), Wikipedia lead / Wikidata P17, confirms city and country
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