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Junagadh

Southern Asia

Junagadh is a city in the Indian state of Gujarat at the foot of Mount Girnar, with about 465,000 residents as of 2025, up from 319,462 at the 2011 census. Its Uparkot Fort was built around 319 BC under the Mauryan emperor Chandragupta, and the city preserves rock edicts of Ashoka dated to about 250 BC along with Sanskrit inscriptions from the 2nd century AD; ruled by a line of Nawabs from 1730, it acceded to Pakistan in 1947 before India intervened and a February 1948 plebiscite returned it overwhelmingly to India, and it is now Gujarat's seventh largest city and home to Junagadh Agricultural University.

Facts
Population
465,000 1
Area (sq km)
160 2
Founding Year
319 BCE 1
Population Estimate Year
2020 2
Elevation (m)
107 2
Latitude
21.52 degrees north 2
Longitude
70.47 degrees east 2
Elevation Band
Lowland 3
Climate Zone
Dry 4
Time Zone
UTC+05:30 5
Sources
1. Junagadh (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Wikipedia infobox 'Established' = '319 BCE' on 'Junagadh'
  • Infobox: population_total
    4,65,000
  • On Continent: Asia, Lead paragraph names Gujarat; continent follows from the atlas record for Gujarat
    the city and headquarters of Junagadh district in the Indian state of Gujarat
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2. Junagadh (Wikidata)
  • P625 (coordinate location)
    latitude 21.52, longitude 70.47
  • P2044 (elevation above sea level)
    elevation 107 m
  • P2046 (area)
    area 160.0 sq km
  • P1082 (population), P585 (point in time)
    population (2020)
  • In Group: Cities of Southern Asia (World), Wikipedia infobox, country field
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3. GeoNames: Jūnāgadh - GeoNames
GeoNamesPlace record, elevation
Quote, Place record, elevation
Elevation ca. 97 m
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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 21.75, 70.25
Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 21.75, 70.25
21.75 70.25 BSh
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5. GeoNames: Jūnāgadh - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 1268773
Quote, cities500 record 1268773
21.51966 70.45981 P PPL IN 09 479 3827 319462 97 Asia/Kolkata
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Wikidata: Junagadh
Wikidata Q11864, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
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