Billawar
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Billawar is a town and a notified area committee in Kathua district of the Indian Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
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Place details
- Locality
- Billawar
- Region
- Jammu and Kashmir
- Country
- India
- Population
- 4,978
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Billawar
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Billawar Town.jpg
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- India Jammu and Kashmir#India
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Jammu and Kashmir, India
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Jammu and Kashmir
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Kathua
- Settlement.leader_title
- MLA
- Settlement.leader_name
- Pt. Satish Kumar Sharma
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 844
- Settlement.population_total
- 11,916
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2011
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.timezone1
- IST
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Geography
- Billawar tehsil
- History
- Demographics
- Places of interest
- Assembly constituency
- References
Billawar is a town and a notified area committee in Kathua district of the Indian Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
Billawar was founded by Raja Bhog Pal in the 7th century A.D., it was a kingdom and its capital was Basohli until the 11th century.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Billawar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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