Hospet, officially known as Hosapete, is the largest and fastest growing industrial city and district headquarters of Vijayanagara district in the Indian state of Karnataka, known as the steel city of Karnataka. It sits on the bank of the Tungabhadra River, 13 kilometers from the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Hampi, once the capital of the Vijayanagara Empire, and lies 333 kilometers from the state capital, Bengaluru, serving as a connecting link between North and South Karnataka.
Facts
Area (sq km) Founding Year Elevation (m) Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Hospet (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationInfobox established_date/established_title
Established: 1520
Infobox: population_total
206167
- In Group: Cities of Southern Asia (World), Wikipedia lead / Wikidata P17, confirms city and country
On Continent: Asia, Lead paragraph names India; continent follows from the atlas record for India
as Hosapete, is a major city in the Vijayanagara district of Karnataka, India
View the Source 2. Hospet (Wikidata)
P625 (coordinate location)
latitude 15.2667, longitude 76.4
P2044 (elevation above sea level)
elevation 479 m
P2046 (area)
area 67.89 sq km
View the Source3. GeoNames: Hosapete - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 1269935
15.26954 76.3871 P PPL IN 19 738 1203 206167 487 Asia/Kolkata
Place record, elevation
Elevation ca. 487 m
View the Source 4. 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 15.25, 76.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 15.25, 76.25
15.25 76.25 BSh
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