The capital of the Indian state of Jharkhand and its largest district by population, formed when Jharkhand was carved out of Bihar's Chota Nagpur and Santhal Parganas divisions on 15 November 2000. The city was the centre of the Jharkhand movement that campaigned for a separate tribal state, and it has since been selected as one of a hundred Indian cities developed under the national Smart Cities Mission.
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Area (sq km) Founding Year Population Estimate Year Elevation (m) Elevation Band Climate Zone Connections
Capital Of
Source GeoNames: Ranchi - GeoNames
In the Other Atlases
Site Of
Also in Law Atlas: which is located in this subject.
Source Jharkhand High Court (Wikipedia)English Wikipedia lead [seat-city]Quote, English Wikipedia lead [seat-city]
functioning from a newly constructed complex at Dhurwa, Ranchi
Sources
1. Ranchi (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationInfobox: Population (total)
1,073,427
Infobox: Population census year
2011
Infobox: Area (Municipal Corporation)
175.12 km2 (67.61 sq mi)
Infobox: Elevation
651 m (2,136 ft)
Infobox: Coordinates
23.36°N, 85.33°E
Article text
In 1833, Captain Wilkinson established headquarter of the South-West Frontier agency in Lohardaga but in 1843 they moved the headquarters to the village of Kishunpur, which he renamed into Ranchi after the hamlet located at the foot of the Hill.
On Continent: Asia, Lead paragraph names Jharkhand; continent follows from the atlas record for Jharkhand
city and also the largest district by population of the Indian state of Jharkhand
View the Source 2. GeoNames: Ranchi - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 1258526
23.34316 85.3094 P PPLA IN 38 364 2684 1120374 643 Asia/Kolkata
Place record, elevation
Elevation ca. 643 m
Capital Of: Jharkhand, cities500 record 1258526, feature code PPLA (seat of first-order division 38)
23.34316 85.3094 P PPLA IN 38 364 2684 1120374 643 Asia/Kolkata
View the Source 3. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 23.25, 85.25Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 23.25, 85.25
23.25 85.25 Cwa
Wikidata: Ranchi
- Wikidata Q174461, class allow-list match verified against P17/real-world identity (w-geo-qidcite-0926).
- In Group: Cities of Southern Asia (World), Wikipedia infobox, country field
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