Bal | |
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village | |
  Bal Location in Punjab, India  Bal Bal (India) | |
| Coordinates: 31°03′02″N75°04′38″E / 31.05050745°N 75.07730484°E Coordinates: 31°03′02″N75°04′38″E / 31.05050745°N 75.07730484°E | |
| Country | India |
| State | Punjab |
| District | Firozpur |
| Tehsil | Zira |
| Elevation | 211 m (692 ft) |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 492 |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
| 2011 census code | 34224 |
Bal is a village in Firozpur district, Punjab, India. It is located in the Zira tehsil. [1]
Firozpur district is one of the twenty-two districts in the state of Punjab, India. Firozpur district comprises an area of 2,190 km2 (850 sq mi).
Punjab is a state in northern India. Forming part of the larger Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent, the state is bordered by the Indian states of Jammu and Kashmir to the north, Himachal Pradesh to the east, Haryana to the south and southeast, Rajasthan to the southwest, and the Pakistani province of Punjab to the west. The state covers an area of 50,362 square kilometres, 1.53% of India's total geographical area. It is the 20th-largest Indian state by area. With 27,704,236 inhabitants at the 2011 census, Punjab is the 16th-largest state by population, comprising 22 districts. Punjabi is the most widely spoken and official language of the state. The main ethnic group are the Punjabis, with Sikhs (58%) and Hindus (38%). The state capital is Chandigarh, a Union Territory and also the capital of the neighbouring state of Haryana. The five tributary rivers of the Indus River from which the region took its name are Sutlej, Ravi, Beas, Chenab and Jhelum Rivers; Sutlej, Ravi and Beas are part of the Indian Punjab.
India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia.
