Makrana
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Place details
- Locality
- Makrana
- Region
- Rajasthan
- Country
- India
- Population
- 94,487
- Timezone
- Asia/Kolkata
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Makrana
- Settlement.settlement_type
- City
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Makrana_Skyline.png
- Settlement.nickname
- Marble City of India
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- India Rajasthan#India
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- right
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Rajasthan, India
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Rajasthan
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Didwana Kuchaman
- Settlement.named_for
- Makran City of India
- Settlement.government_type
- Democratic
- Settlement.governing_body
- Makrana Municipal Council
- Settlement.leader_name
- Mohammad Rabban, 2020-2022
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 408
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Nagaur district
- Elevation
- 408
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Dialing code
- 1588
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- postal code
- 341505
Sources (2)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Geography
- History
- Economy
- Mining
- Culture & festivals
- See also
- References
Makrana is an urban city located, near Kuchaman City, at the centre of state in Didwana-Kuchaman district in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Rajasthani language is widely spoken here. It also served as a tehsil headquarters, with 136 villages under its jurisdiction thus making it the largest tehsil in the district. The biggest village of Makrana tehsil by area is Modicharna. Makrana is west of Jaipur and north-east of Jodhpur. Makrana is known for the part it has played in building the Taj Mahal by supplying marble, craftsmen and stonemasons to build the iconic UNESCO world heritage centre. It is one of the developing cities in the state. The marble from the town Makrana which is known as Makrana Marble, gets the GHSR (Global Heritage Stone Resources) status from the IUGS..
==Geography== Makrana is located at , and has an average elevation of . It lies in the middle of the Aravalli Range, and these mountains are the source of its fame as a marble producer.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Makrana” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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