Sambalpur

Sambalpur, also known as Sambalpore, is the fifth-largest city in the Indian state of Odisha. It lies on the banks of the Mahanadi river, prehistoric settlements have been recorded there, and it is the home of the Sambalpuri sari. The city is a major railway junction of Odisha and the headquarters of the Sambalpur Railway Division of the East Coast Railway Zone. In the early medieval period the region was part of the eastern Kosala lands consolidated by the Somavamshi king Janamejaya I, later ruled by Chauhan Rajputs under Ramai Deva, and in the 1820s Sambalpur was the headquarters of the political agent for the South West Frontier. The average elevation is about 151 metres above mean sea level, and the 2011 census counted 335,761 people.