Varanasi, also known as Kashi or Benares, is a city on the Ganges river in northern India that holds a central place in Hindu traditions of pilgrimage, death and mourning. Regarded as one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, it draws pilgrims to its riverside ghats to bathe in the sacred river and to cremate the dead, and is a major center of learning, temples and classical Indian music and craft.
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Area (sq km) Population Estimate Year Elevation (m)Source infobox gives 80.71 m; stored rounded to the nearest whole metre to match the Int column. Connections
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Source Sangharakshita (Wikipedia)Article textQuote, Article text
He studied Pali, Abhidhamma, and Logic with Jagdish Kashyap at Benares (Varanasi) University.
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1. Varanasi (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationInfobox: area_total_km2
82
Infobox: elevation_m
80.71
Infobox: population_total
1212610
Infobox: population_as_of
2011
- Wikipedia article wikitext, Infobox settlement, coordinates field (coord template 25|19|08|N, converted from degrees/minutes/seconds to decimal)
- Wikipedia article wikitext, Infobox settlement, coordinates field (coord template 83|00|46|E, converted from degrees/minutes/seconds to decimal)
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- In Group: Cities of Southern Asia (World), Wikipedia infobox, country field
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