Yamunanagar
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State : | India | |
State : | Haryana | |
District : | Yamunanagar | |
Location : | 30 ° 8 ′ N , 77 ° 17 ′ E | |
Height : | 279 m | |
Area : | 121 km² | |
Residents : | 479,021 (2011) | |
Population density : | 3959 inhabitants / km² | |
Website : | http://mcynr.com/ |
Yamunanagar (also Yamuna Nagar ) is a city in the Indian state of Haryana . The city was formerly called Abdullapur . Together with the neighboring Jagadhri to the north , it has been a municipal corporation since March 17, 2010 .
location
Yamunanagar is located 170 km north of the federal capital New Delhi at an altitude of 279 m . It forms the administrative seat of the district of the same name founded in 1989 . The Yamuna River flows south 10 km east of the city. The Siwaliks are 35 km north of Yamunanagar.
population
The original city of Yamunanagar had 216,677 inhabitants at the 2011 census. The Municipal Corporation Yamunanagar-Jagadhri metropolitan area lived 479,021 people.
traffic
The national highway NH 73 leads from Ambala in the west to the city of Saharanpur in the east . The NH 73A runs north from Yamunanagar to Paonta Sahib .
climate
The climate in Yamunanagar is warm and temperate . Most rainfall occurs in the monsoon months of July and August. The average annual precipitation is 1049 mm. The annual mean temperature is 24.1 ° C.
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The climate crisis has led to a drastic shortage of drinking water in large parts of India . This is particularly noticeable in Yamuna Nagar. The city is one of those 21 major Indian cities whose groundwater reserves will be completely depleted in 2020 according to calculations by the government agency NITI Aayog.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ ulbharyana.gov.in
- ↑ a b c mcynr.com (Municipal Corporation website)
- ↑ census2011.co.in
- ↑ ulbharyana.gov.in ( Memento from March 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Jessie Yeung, Swati Gupta, Michael Guy: India has just five years to solve its water crisis, experts fear. Otherwise hundreds of millions of lives will be in danger. In: CNN. July 4, 2019, accessed on July 10, 2019 .