Sherkot
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| State : | Uttar Pradesh | ||
| District : | Bijnor | ||
| Location : | 29 ° 21 ′ N , 78 ° 35 ′ E | ||
| Height : | 203 m | ||
| Residents : | 62,226 (2011) | ||
Sherkot ( Hindi शेरकोट ) is a city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh .
The city is part of the Bijnor district . Sherkot is about 422 km northwest of Lucknow and near the border with Uttarakhand . Sherkot has the status of a Nagar Palika Parishad . The city is divided into 25 wards . On the cut-off date of the 2011 census, it had 62,226 inhabitants, of whom 32,369 were men and 29,857 women.
Sherkot was founded by Emperor Sher Shah Suri , an Afghan ruler of the Sur Dynasty , who ruled northern India from 1540 to 1545 after defeating Humayun , a Mughal emperor.