Ghorawal Ghorawal, Sonbhadra | |
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city | |
  Ghorawal Location in Uttar Pradesh, India | |
| Coordinates: 24°46′N82°47′E / 24.77°N 82.78°E Coordinates: 24°46′N82°47′E / 24.77°N 82.78°E | |
| Country |  |
| State | Uttar Pradesh |
| District | Sonbhadra |
| Elevation | 303 m (994 ft) |
| Population (2001) | |
| • Total | 6,478 |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Hindi |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
Ghorawal is a town and a nagar panchayat in Sonbhadra district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
A Nagar Panchayat or Notified Area Council (NAC) or City Council in India is a settlement in transition from rural to urban and therefore a form of an urban political unit comparable to a municipality. An urban centre with more than 11,000 and less than 25,000 inhabitants is classified as a "Nagar Panchayat".
Sonbhadra or Sonebhadra is the second largest district of Uttar Pradesh, India. Sonbhadra is the only district in India which borders four states namely Madhya Pradesh in west, Chhattishgarh in south, Jharkhand in south east and Bihar in the east. The district has an area of 6788 km² and a population of 1,862,559, with a population density of 270 persons per km².It lies in the extreme southeast of the state, and is bounded by Mirzapur District to the northwest, Chandauli District to the north, Kaimur and Rohtas districts of Bihar state to the northeast, Garhwa district of Jharkhand state to the east, Balrampur District of Chhattisgarh state to the south, and Singrauli district of Madhya Pradesh state to the west. The district headquarters is in the town of Robertsganj.Sonbhadra district is an industrial zone and it has lots of minerals like bauxite, limestone, coal, gold etc. Sonbhadra is called as "Energy Capital of India" because there are so many power plants. Sonbhadra lies between vindhya and Kaimur hills, and its topology and natural environment prompted First Prime minister of India Pt. Jawarharlal Nehru to refer to Sonbhadra as The Switzerland of India.
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.
