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Roads in India are an important mode of transport in India. India has a network of over 6,331,791 kilometres (3,934,393 mi) of roads (as of 31 December 2022 [update] ). This is the second-largest road network in the world, after the United States. [ 2 ] At (1.94 km, 1.21 mi) of roads per square kilometre of land, the quantitative density of ...
Golden triangle. India's golden triangle is a tourist circuit in India that connects the national capital, New Delhi, with Agra and Jaipur. The trips usually start in Delhi and move south to the site of the Taj Mahal at Agra (in Uttar Pradesh state), then west, to Jaipur (in the desert landscapes of Rajasthan state).
Kolkata–Durgapur section of India's GQ highway. NH4: Chennai–Mumbai section of the GQ highway near Krishnagiri, Tamil Nadu. The Golden Quadrilateral ( Hindi: स्वर्णिम चतुर्भुज, romanized : Svarnim Chaturbhuj; abbreviated GQ) is a national highway network connecting several major industrial, agricultural and ...
A scene from the Ambala cantonment in British India. In the 1830s the East India Company started a program of metalled road construction, for both commercial and administrative purposes. The road, now named the Grand Trunk Road, from Calcutta, through Delhi, to Kabul, Afghanistan was rebuilt at a cost of £1000/mile.
Katra. / 32.98944°N 74.93333°E / 32.98944; 74.93333. Katra is a city and Tehsil in the Reasi district of the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir, situated at the foot of the Trikuta Mountains, where the shrine of Vaishno Devi is located. Katra is located 24 km (15 mi) from the town of Reasi, 42 km (26 mi) from the city of ...
National Highway 66, commonly referred to as NH 66(erstwhile NH-17and a part of NH-47),[1]is a mostly 4 lane 1640 km ( 1020 miles) long busy National Highwaythat runs roughly north–south along the western coast of India, parallel to the Western Ghats. It connects Panvel, a city east of Mumbai (Bombay)to Cape Comorin(Kanyakumari) via Cochin ...
Jaipur ( / ˈdʒaɪpʊər / ⓘ, Hindi: [ˈdʒeəpʊr]) is the capital and the largest city of the north-western Indian state of Rajasthan. As of 2011, the city has a population of 3.1 million, making it the tenth most populous city in the country. Located 268 km (167 miles) from the national capital New Delhi, Jaipur is also known as the Pink ...
Rudraprayag is a city and a municipality in Rudraprayag district in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. Rudraprayag is one of the Panch Prayag (five confluences) of Alaknanda River, the point of confluence of rivers Alaknanda and Mandakini. Kedarnath, a Hindu holy city is located 86 km from Rudraprayag.