Prayagraj
Prayagraj, formerly and colloquially known as Allahabad, is a metropolis in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.
Prayagraj, formerly and colloquially known as Allahabad, is a metropolis in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is the administrative headquarters of the Prayagraj district, the most populous district in the state and 13th most populous district in India and the Prayagraj division. The city is the judicial capital of Uttar Pradesh with the Allahabad High Court being the highest judicial body in the state. As of 2011, Prayagraj is the seventh most populous city in the state, thirteenth in Northern India and thirty-sixth in India, with an estimated population of 1.53 million in the city. In 2011, it was ranked the world's 40th fastest-growing city. The city, in 2016, was also ranked the third most liveable urban agglomeration in the state and sixteenth in the country. Hindi is the most widely spoken language in the city.
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Worth seeing in and around Prayagraj
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
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- 08Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad
Institute of technology in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh
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Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Prayagraj
- Airports
- Lal Bahadur Shastri (VNS), 102 km · Chaudhary Charan Singh (LKO), 176 km · Gautam Buddha (BWA), 278 km
- Stations
- Subedarganj railway station, 5.7 km · Prayag Junction railway station, 4.1 km · Prayagraj Rambag railway station, 500 m · Prayagraj Chheoki Junction railway station, 6.6 km
- Varanasi → Prayagraj118 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · ₹840–1,050
- Lucknow → Prayagraj180 km · quickest by road, 3h 6m · ₹1,350–1,690
- Bhopal → Prayagraj511 km · quickest by road, 9h 33m · ₹4,050–5,050
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No local-transport research exists yet for Prayagraj
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Prayagraj. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundAuto rickshaws (3-wheelers) are also cheap modes of travel inside the city.
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