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Punjab

Area : 50, 362 sq.km

Literacy : 69.9%

Languages : Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu

Airports : Amritsar, Ludhiana, Bathinda.

Places to Visit : Amritsar, Jalandhar, Bathinda, Bhakra Nangal dam.

Tourist places in Punjab

Amritsar

Amritsar is a city in the northwestern part of India and is the administrative headquarters of Amritsar district Langar in the state of Punjab, India. The 2001 Indian census reported the population of the city to be over 1,500,000, with that of the entire district numbering just over 3,695,077.Amritsar is situated 217 kilometres northwest of state capital Chandigarh and is 32 kilometres east of Lahore, Pakistan and therefore, very close to India's western border with Pakistan.

Amritsar is home to the Harmandir Sahib, also known as the Golden Temple, the spiritual and cultural center of the Sikh religion. This important Sikh shrine attracts more visitors than the Taj Mahal in Agra as it has more than 100,000 visitors on week days alone and is the number one destination for non-resident-Indians in the whole of India.

Jalandhar

Jalandhar is a city in Jalandhar District in the state of Punjab, India. It is located 134 km north west of the state capital Chandigarh. In Hindu mythology, Jalandhara was the eponymous kingdom of a devil in Satyuga.Jalandhar along with Multan is the oldest surviving city of the Trigarta Empire of Katoch Rulers, with reference in history as far back as A.D. 100. The Jalandhar Doabalso marked the eastern most territory of the empire of Alexander the Great. He erected giant altars in this area to mark the eastern most extent of his empire and also founded a city named Alexandria in the vicinity and left many Macedonian veterans there. Bathinda   Bhatinda named after the Bhati Rajput kings, is one of the oldest cities in Punjab and the current administrative headquarters of Bathinda District. It is situated in north-western India in the Malwa Region, 225 km west from state capital Chandigarh along NH64. Courtesy to five artificial lakes in the city, Bathinda is also known as "The city of Lakes". Bathinda is a historical city. It is home to two modern thermal power plants, Guru Nanak Dev Thermal Plant at Bathinda proper, and the one at Lehra Mohabbat,a fertilizer plant, a large oil refinery, a Zoo, and the Qila Mubarak fort.Bathinda is one of the biggest food grain and cotton markets in northern India, and the area around Bathinda has become a large grape growing area. Bhakra Nangal dam   Bhakra Nangal Dam is a concrete gravity dam across the Sutlej River, near the border between Punjab and Himachal Pradesh in northern India. The dam, located in the village of Bhakra in the Bilaspur region of Himachal Pradesh, is Asia's second highest at 225.55 m high next to the 261m Tehri Dam also in India. The Bhakra-Nangal multipurpose dam was among the earliest river valley development schemes undertaken by independent India, although the project was conceived long before India became a free nation.Preliminary works commenced in 1946. Construction of the dam started in 1948, Jawahar Lal Nehru poured the first bucket of concrete into the foundations of Bhakra on 17 November 1955 and the dam was completed by the end of 1963. Related Links Kerala Girls Andhra Pradesh Girls Assam Girls Bihar Girls Chhattisgarh Girls Goa Girls Gujarat Girls Delhi Girls Haryana Girls Himachal Pradesh Girls Jharkhand Girls Kannada Girls Madhya Pradesh Girls Maharashtra Girls Manipur Girls Meghalaya Girls Mizoram Girls Nagaland Girls Orissa Girls Punjab Girls Rajasthan Girls Sikkim Girls Tamil Girls Tripura Girls Uttar Pradesh Girls Uttarakhand Girls West Bengal Girls Mumbai Girls Malayalam Cinema Actress Photogallery Tamil Cinema Actress Gallery Hindi Actress Gallery Bhama Bhavana Gopika Jothirmayi Karthika Kavya Madhavan Mannya Samvritha Sindhu Menon Renuka Menon Ramya Nambeesan Parvathy Melton Padmapriya Nayan Thara Navya Nair Meera Nandhan Meera Jasmine Namitha Asin Sandhya Reemasen Parvathy Milton Sada Namitha Mallika Kapoor Asin Bhoomika Ganelia Charmi Divya Gayathri jayaram Jyothika Kiran Laila Lakshana Malavika Meena Shriya Thamana Thrisha Priyamani Ramba Pooja Sneha Vidya balan Urmila Amisha Aishwarya rai Bipasha Laradutta Madhuri Mahima Mamatha Suman Ranganath Shilpa Shetty Rani mukherjee Neha dupia Mallika sherawat Malaika arora Lisa rai Kim Sharma Celina Hollywood gallery Malayalam Cinema Stars Profile Malayalam Cinema Directors Profile Anjelina joli Ali landry Amy Brenneman Bai Ling Nicle Kidman Chloe Sevigny Jake Gyllenhaal Jude Law Maria Menounos Brad Pitt Johnny Depp Mammootty Mohanlal Jagathy Sreekumar Gopika Kavya Madhavan Navya Nair Padma Priya Jayaram Dileep Kunchacko Boban Prithviraj Shobhana Suresh Gopi Bhavana BijuMenon Harishree ashokan Manoj K Jayan Jagathesh Jayasurya Manianpillaraj Meerajasmine Meeranandan Mukesh Salimkumar Sreenivasan sureshgopi Adoor Gopalakrishnan MT Vasudevan Nair G Aravindan TV Chandran Shaji N Karun Fazil Hariaharan Joshy Priyadarsan Renjith Sathyananthikkad Shaji Kailas Siddique lal Vinayan