Chandigarh (ind)

Chandigarh

Chandigarh ranks 1,773rd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Viborg, Denmark, Edessa, and Glen Cove, New York. Memorable people born in Chandigarh include Neerja Bhanot, Kapil Dev, and Sabeer Bhatia. Memorable people who died in Chandigarh include Milkha Singh, Zail Singh, and Nek Chand. Chandigarh has been the birth place of many actors and cricketers and the death place of many athletes and politicians. Chandigarh is located in India.

Chandigarh is a union territory and planned city in northern India, serving as the shared capital of the surrounding states, namely Punjab to the north, west and the south, and Haryana to the east. Chandigarh constitutes the bulk of the Chandigarh Capital Region or Greater Chandigarh, which also includes the adjacent satellite cities of Panchkula in Haryana and Mohali in Punjab. It is situated near the foothills of the Himalayas, 260 km north of New Delhi and 229 km southeast of Amritsar. Read more on Wikipedia