Ambala

Ambala is a city and municipal corporation in the Ambala district of Haryana, India, close to the border with Punjab and to Chandigarh, the shared capital of the two states. The urban area has two parts about eight kilometres apart, Ambala Cantonment and Ambala City, known together as the Twin Cities. The cantonment houses a large presence of the Indian Army and the Indian Air Force, and the Ambala Army Cantonment dates from 1843, when British forces moved here from Karnal after a malaria epidemic. The city lies roughly 200 kilometres north of New Delhi, sits on the drainage divide between the Ganges and Indus river systems, and is designated a counter-magnet city for the National Capital Region. It is also a major railway junction of the Northern Railway Zone.