Roorkee
Sign in to saveRoorkee (Rūṛkī; ), formerly also anglicized as Rurki, is a city and municipal corporation in the Haridwar district of the state of Uttarakhand, India. It is from Haridwar, the district headquarters. It is spread over a flat terrain under the Sivalik Hills of the Himalayas. The city is developed on the banks of the Ganges Canal, its dominant feature, which flows from north–south through the middle of the city.
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Place details
- Locality
- Roorkee
- Region
- Uttarakhand
- Country
- India
- Population
- 103,894
- Timezone
- Asia/Kolkata
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Key facts
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- Roorkee City
- Settlement<! See [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian cities]] for details >.official_name
- Roorkee City
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- City
- Settlement<! See [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian cities]] for details >.pushpin_map
- India Uttarakhand
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- Location in Uttarakhand, India
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- Country
- Settlement<! See [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian cities]] for details >.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement<! See [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian cities]] for details >.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement<! See [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian cities]] for details >.subdivision_name1
- Uttarakhand
- Settlement<! See [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian cities]] for details >.subdivision_name2
- Haridwar
- Settlement<! See [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian cities]] for details >.established_title1
- Founded
- Settlement<! See [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian cities]] for details >.established_date1
- 1842
- Settlement<! See [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian cities]] for details >.established_title2
- Municipality
- Settlement<! See [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian cities]] for details >.established_date2
- 1868
- Settlement<! See [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian cities]] for details >.founder
- Proby Cautley
- Settlement<! See [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian cities]] for details >.government_type
- Municipal Corporation
- Settlement<! See [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian cities]] for details >.governing_body
- Roorkee Municipal Corporation
- Settlement<! See [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian cities]] for details >.leader_title
- Mayor
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Haridwar district
- Area
- 8.11
- Elevation
- 268
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Image
- GangesCanalRoorkee2008.jpg
- Dialing code
- 91 1332
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- Commons category
- Roorkee
- postal code
- 247667
- P8168
- Karsten Voigt
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- P12749
- Common Crane
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Roorkee (Rūṛkī; ), formerly also anglicized as Rurki, is a city and municipal corporation in the Haridwar district of the state of Uttarakhand, India. It is from Haridwar, the district headquarters. It is spread over a flat terrain under the Sivalik Hills of the Himalayas. The city is developed on the banks of the Ganges Canal, its dominant feature, which flows from north–south through the middle of the city.
Roorkee is home to Asia's Second engineering college the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, formerly known as Thomson College of Civil Engineering. Roorkee is also known for the Roorkee Cantonment, one of the country's oldest military establishments and the headquarters of Bengal Engineer Group since 1853.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Roorkee” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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