Bahraich
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cached 17h agoPlace details
- Locality
- Bahraich
- Region
- Uttar Pradesh
- Country
- India
- Population
- 182,218
- Timezone
- Asia/Kolkata
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Bahraich
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Bahraich Clock Tower.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Bahraich Clock Tower
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- India Uttar Pradesh#India3
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- right
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Uttar Pradesh, India
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Uttar Pradesh
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Bahraich
- Settlement.governing_body
- Bahraich Nagar Palika Parishad
- Settlement.leader_title1
- Mayor
- Settlement.leader_name1
- Sudha Tekriwal
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 34
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 126
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Bahraich district
- Population
- 186223
- Area
- 13.30
- Elevation
- 126
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Capital of
- Bahraich district
- Shares border with
- Nanpara
- Image
- Bahraich Clock Tower.jpg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Bahraich
- postal code
- 271801
- Commons category
- Bahraich
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- P12749
- Francheville
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
12 sectionsContents
- Geography and climate
- Demographics
- Religion
- Politics
- Transportation
- Roads
- Railways
- October 2024 communal violence
- Media
- Notable people
- References
- External links
Bahraich is a city and a municipal board in Bahraich district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. Located on the Saryu River, a tributary of the Ghaghara river, Bahraich is north-east of Lucknow, the state capital. The districts of Barabanki, Gonda, Balrampur, Lakhimpur Kheri, Shravasti and Sitapur share boundaries with Bahraich. A factor which makes this city important is the international border shared with Nepal.
==Geography and climate== Bahraich has an average elevation of . Bahraich has a warm humid subtropical climate with hot summers from April to July. The rainy season is from July to mid-September when Bahraich gets an average rainfall from the south-west monsoon winds, and occasionally frontal rainfall will occur in January. In winter the maximum temperature is around and the minimum is in the range. Fog is quite common from late December to late January. Summers are extremely hot with temperatures rising to the range, the average highs being in the high of 30s (degree Celsius). Average annual rainfall is (approx).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bahraich” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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