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.
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Area (sq km) Founding Year Population Estimate Year Elevation (m) 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
View the Source 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
View the SourceWikidata: Junagadh
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