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Bharuch
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Bharuch is a city in the state of Gujarat, India, and serves as the capital of Bharuch district. The city has a population of 158,253 and covers an area of 35.34 square kilometers. It is situated at an elevation of 15 meters above sea level and operates in the UTC+05:30 time zone. The local postal code is 392001, and the dialing code is 2642.
The city is described in sources including the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, the Oxford Classical Dictionary, and the 11th edition of Encyclopædia Britannica. Its native label is ભરૂચ.
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Place details
- Region
- Gujarat
- Country
- India
- Population
- 169,007
- Timezone
- Asia/Kolkata
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Bharuch
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City
- Settlement.image_skyline
- BrSwamitemple.JPG
- Settlement.image_caption
- BAPS Sri Svaminarayana Mandiram, Bharuch
- Settlement.nicknames
- Peanut City, City of Fertilizers, Chemical Capital of India
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- India Gujarat#India3
- Settlement.pushpin_relief
- 1
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- right
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- India
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Gujarat
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Bharuch
- Settlement.established_date
- 23/12/2022
- Settlement.government_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.governing_body
- Bharuch Municipality
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
via Wikipedia infobox
Travel guide
Understand
Bharuch was known to Greeks and Romans as Barygaza.
Travel guide from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Encyclopedic overview
21 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- BCE era
- Maitraka era (470 CE–788 CE) and Rashtrakuta era (788 CE–942 CE)
- Nawabs of Bharuch and the Maratha Empire
- Geography and climate
- Economy, commerce and industry
- Trade
- Present industrial city
- Demographics
- Culture
- Notable people
- Places of interest
- Bharuch City
- Surrounding area
- Other places of interest
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Bharuch () is a city at the mouth of the Narmada River in Gujarat in the western part of India. Bharuch is the administrative headquarters of Bharuch District.
The city of Bharuch and its surroundings have been settled since times of antiquity. It was a ship building centre and sea port in the pre-compass coastal trading routes for trading with the Occident and the East, perhaps as far back as the days of earliest trade connections. The route made use of the regular and predictable monsoon winds or relied on galleys. Many goods from the Far East and Far West (the famed Spices and Silk trade) were shipped there during the annual monsoon winds, making it a terminus for several key land-sea trade routes. Bharuch was known to the Greeks, the Parthian Empire, in the Roman Empire, the Chinese, and in other Western and Eastern centres of civilisation through the end of the European Middle Ages and other the middle ages of the world.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bharuch” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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