Hoshiarpur
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Hoshiarpur is a city in Punjab, India, serving as the capital of Hoshiarpur District. It is situated at an elevation of 296 meters above sea level and operates within the UTC+05:30 time zone. The city’s postal code is 146001, and its local dialing code is 1882.
The area includes residential zones such as Model Town. Hoshiarpur is described in sources including The Nuttall Encyclopædia and the 11th edition of Encyclopædia Britannica. A nearby location named Dārapur, also in Punjab, has an elevation of 311 meters.
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- Locality
- Hoshiarpur
- Region
- Punjab
- Country
- India
- Population
- 168,653
- Timezone
- Asia/Kolkata
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Hoshiarpur
- Settlement.native_name
- (Punjabi)
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City
- Settlement.image_caption
- Landmarks of Hoshiarpur
- Settlement.nicknames
- Land of Saints, HSP
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- India Punjab#India
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- right
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location of Hoshiarpur City in Punjab, India
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Punjab
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Region of Punjab
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Doaba
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Hoshiarpur
- Settlement.founder
- Hargovind Ram & Ram Chand (Dewans of Muhammad bin Tughluq)
- Settlement.established_title1
- Founded In
- Settlement.established_date1
- 1325–1351 A.D.
via Wikipedia infobox
Travel guide
Get in
The regional airport is Amritsar (), more snappily known as Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport. A cab from there will take 2 hours 30 min to Hoshiarpur. Otherwise fly into Delhi (), which has extensive transcontinental connections, and travel overland.
See
Sanskrit College Baba Balak Nath Temple Shimla Pahari
Buy
Punjabi local and traditional Clothes and Punjabi jutti tille wali (traditional wedding shoes) Punjabi Jewellery for that visit Sarafa Bazar. Dana Mandi Kanak Mandi
Eat
Different kind of Pickles for that Clock Tower Janta Dhaba Mashoor Jalebi Lovely Sweet Shop Sharma Da Dhaba near Clock Tower
Drink
Lassi Lemonade Sharbat with milk Milk Badam Jaljira
Connect
Chandigarh, Nawasher, Himachal,
Go next
Jalandhar — the biggest city in the Doaba region, famous for its sports equipment manufacturing industry
Travel guide from Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Encyclopedic overview
18 sectionsContents
- Demographics
- History
- Transport
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- Rail
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- Education
- Universities
- Notable people
- Politics
- Civil Services
- Business
- Arts and culture
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- Army
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Hoshiarpur () is a city and a municipal corporation in Hoshiarpur district in the Doaba region of the Indian state of Punjab. It was founded, according to tradition, during the early part of the fourteenth century. In 1809, it was occupied by the forces of Maharaja Karanvir Singh and was united into the greater state of Punjab in 1849.
Hoshiarpur has an average elevation of . Hoshiarpur district is located in the north-east part of the Indian state of Punjab. It falls in the Jalandhar Revenue Division and is situated in the Bist Doab portion of the Doaba region. Hoshiarpur shares a boundary with Kangra district, and Una district of Himachal Pradesh in the northeast. In the southwest, it borders Shahid Bhagat Singh Nagar district, Jalandhar district, and Kapurthala district, and in the northwest it borders Gurdaspur district.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hoshiarpur” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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