Belgaum
Sign in to saveBelgaum (Kannada ISO: Beḷagāvi, ; Marathi ISO: Bēḻagāṃva, ), officially known as Belagavi (also Belgaon), is a city in the Indian state of Karnataka located near its northern western border in the Western Ghats. It is the administrative headquarters of the eponymous Belagavi division and Belagavi district. The Government of Karnataka has proposed making Belgaum the second capital of Karnataka alongside Bangalore, hence a second state administrative building Suvarna Vidhana Soudha was inaugurated on 11 October 2012.
AI overview
Belgaum, officially known as Belagavi, is a city in northern western Karnataka near the Western Ghats that serves as the administrative headquarters of its district and division. The Karnataka government has proposed designating it as a second capital alongside Bangalore, with a second state administrative building inaugurated there in 2012.
AI-generated from the Wikipedia summary — may contain errors.
Weather now
cached 5h ago23°overcast clouds
87% 3.2 m/s OpenWeatherMap
7-day forecast
via Open-Meteo
Place details
- Locality
- Belagavi
- Region
- Karnataka
- Country
- India
- Population
- 490,045
- Timezone
Article
28 sectionsContents
- History
- City names
- Geography
- Topography
- Climate
- Demographics
- Population
- Languages
- Government and politics
- Administration
- Assembly session
- Belgaum border dispute
- Economy
- Defence training centres
- Culture
- Cuisine
- Transportation
- Road
- Air
- Rail
- Education
- VTU
- Rani Channamma University
- Media
- Notable people
- See also
- References
- External links
Belgaum (Kannada ISO: Beḷagāvi, ; Marathi ISO: Bēḻagāṃva, ), officially known as Belagavi (also Belgaon), is a city in the Indian state of Karnataka located near its northern western border in the Western Ghats. It is the administrative headquarters of the eponymous Belagavi division and Belagavi district. The Government of Karnataka has proposed making Belgaum the second capital of Karnataka alongside Bangalore, hence a second state administrative building Suvarna Vidhana Soudha was inaugurated on 11 October 2012.
Belgaum has been selected in first phase out of 20 cities, as one of the hundred Indian cities to be developed as a smart city under India's flagship Smart Cities Mission.