Key facts
- Administering country
- India
- Union territory
- Jammu and Kashmir
- Capital
- Jammu
- Regions
- List Duggar Chenab Valley Pir Panjal
- Type
- Administrative Division
- Total
- 26,293 km (10,152 sq mi)
- Density
- 203.51/km (527.08/sq mi)
- Official
- Dogri , Urdu , Hindi , Kashmiri , English
- Spoken
- Dogri , Pahari , Gujari , Kashmiri , Hindi , Punjabi , Urdu
- Time zone
- UTC+5:30 ( IST )
- Website
- divcomjammu .gov .in
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Encyclopedic overview
The Jammu division (/ˈdʒæmuː, ˈdʒʌm-/ ; Dogri pronunciation: [dʒəmːuː]) is a revenue and administrative division of the Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region. It is bordered by the Kashmir division to the north. It consists of the districts of Jammu, Doda, Kathua, Ramban, Reasi, Kishtwar, Poonch, Rajouri, Udhampur and Samba. Most of the land is hilly or mountainous, including the Pir Panjal Range which separates it from the Kashmir Valley and part of the Great Himalayas in the eastern districts of Doda and Kishtwar. Its principal river is the Chenab.
Jammu city is the largest city in Jammu and the winter capital of Jammu and Kashmir. It is also known as "City of Temples" as it has many temples and shrines, with glittering shikhars soaring into the sky, which dot the city's skyline.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Jammu division” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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