Saharanpur is a municipal corporation and city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, serving as the administrative center of Saharanpur district. Its name is said to derive from Saint Shah Haroon Chishti, a Sufi sage honored by the Delhi Sultan Muhammad bin Tughluq in the 14th century. The city had a population of 705,478 at the 2011 census, making it the eleventh most populous city in Uttar Pradesh, and it has been designated one of India's 100 Smart Cities. Saharanpur was a site of early resistance to British colonial rule in the 1800s and is renowned today for hand carved wooden handicrafts and for its historic Botanical Gardens, which contributed to the scientific and economic development of India.
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Elevation Band Climate Zone Sources
1. Saharanpur (Wikidata)
P1082 (population)Quote, P1082 (population)
population 705,478
2. Open-Meteo: Open-Meteo Elevation API: elevation at Saharanpur coordinates
Open-MeteoJSON elevationQuote, JSON elevation
"elevation": [ 279.0 ]
3. 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 29.75, 77.75Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 29.75, 77.75
29.75 77.75 Cwa
4. GeoNames: Sahāranpur - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 1257806, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)Quote, cities500 record 1257806, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
29.9679 77.54522 P PPL IN 36 132 702 484873 280 Asia/Kolkata
Saharanpur (Wikipedia)
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Saharanpur is a city and a municipal corporation in Uttar Pradesh, India.
- 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
Saharanpur is a city and a municipal corporation in Uttar Pradesh, India
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