Sonipat is a planned industrial city and the administrative headquarters of Sonipat district in the Indian state of Haryana. It belongs to the National Capital Region, about 45 km from New Delhi and 214 km south-west of the state capital Chandigarh, and the Yamuna River runs along its eastern boundary. According to legend it was once called Swarnprastha, the Golden City, a name that later became Swarnpath and then Sonipat, and the epic Mahabharata refers to it as Svarnaprastha, one of the five villages the Pandavas asked for as the price of peace. Sonipat became a full district on 22 December 1972, and its Municipal Committee was established in 1933. Its junction station is the main railway junction on the Delhi-Kalka line, and the 2011 census provisional count was 277,053 people.
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According to the 2011 Indian Census provisional reports, population of Sonipat in 2011 is 277,053.
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is a planned industrial city and administrative headquarter in Sonipat district of Haryana state of India
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is a planned industrial city and administrative headquarter in Sonipat district of Haryana state of India
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