Kalka (India)
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| State : | Haryana | ||
| District : | Panchkula | ||
| Location : | 30 ° 50 ' N , 76 ° 56' E | ||
| Height : | 670 m | ||
| Residents : | 32,255 (2011) | ||
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Kalka ( Hindi : कालका , Kālakā ) is a small town with 32,255 inhabitants (status: 2011 census) in the Panchkula district in the Indian state of Haryana .
history
Kalka used to have the status of a Municipal Committee . On March 17, 2010 Kalka was then included as a zone in the newly established Municipal Corporation Panchkula .
location
Kalka is located 20 km northeast of Chandigarh and 17.5 km north- northeast of the city center of Panchkula in a basin landscape in the Siwaliks on the upper reaches of the Ghaggar . Kalka is located on the national highway NH 22 between Chandigarh and Shimla at an altitude of 670 m and is the starting point of the Kalka-Shimla Railway , a narrow-gauge railway into the mountains of the Himalayas .
Web links
Commons : Kalka - collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ census2011.co.in
- ↑ a b Municipal Corporation Panchkula ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
