Puri

Puri, also known as Jagannath Puri, is a coastal city and municipal corporation in the state of Odisha in eastern India, the district headquarters of Puri district, on the Bay of Bengal 60 kilometres south of the state capital Bhubaneswar. It is home to the 12th-century Jagannath Temple and is one of the original Char Dham pilgrimage sites for Hindus. The English Wikipedia article says the temple was invaded 18 times, and that the Emar Matha was founded by the Vaishnava saint Ramanujacharya in the 12th century. The municipality covers 16.3268 square kilometres in 30 wards with a shore line of 5 kilometres, the climate is tropical savanna, and the 2011 census counted 200,564 people.