Sumbal
Sumbal is a town and a notified area committee in the Bandipora district of the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
Sumbal is a town and a notified area committee in the Bandipora district of the Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. Sumbal is 19 kilometres away from Srinagar. The surrounding parts of sumbal consist of many villages like Nowgam, shadipora, Shahtulpora, Shilwat, Shiganpora, Inderkote. This area has one of the significant Shia population in Kashmir. The place is rich in literature and agriculture. Sumbal is situated on the bank of the river Jhelum and is adjacent to the Manasbal lake. There are also many notable figures from this area including Kashmir's first Muslim lady pilot Iram Habibi and many other personalities particularly poets. The zalpora village of Sumbal joins two districts, Bandipora and Baramulla which serves as another route to connect the districts Kupwara and Baramulla to Srinagar. Sumbal city is divided into 13 wards, for which elections are held every 5 years.
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Worth seeing in and around Sumbal
2 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.
- 01Manasbal Lake
Manasbal Lake is the deepest freshwater lake found in the Safapora area of Ganderbal district of Jammu and Kashmir, India. Named after the sacred Manasarovar.
4.2 km · lake in Jammu and Kashmir, India · Wikipedia - 02Khanpursar
Khanpursar Lake is a shallow, non-mictic lake, near Ganderbal town in the Ganderbal district of Jammu and Kashmir in India. It lies 24 km north-west of Srinagar city in the village of Khanpur on the right bank of the Jehlum River.
5 km · lake in Jammu and Kashmir, India · Wikipedia
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Getting to Sumbal
- Airports
- Srinagar (SXR), 30 km · Skardu (KDU), 149 km · Islamabad (ISB), 183 km
- Amritsar → Sumbal291 km · quickest by air, 5h 12m · ₹5,040–7,660
- Halwara → Sumbal401 km · quickest by air, 4h 51m · ₹5,650–8,640
- Chandigarh → Sumbal437 km · quickest by air, 5h 9m · ₹6,050–9,250
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No local-transport research exists yet for Sumbal
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 Sumbal. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Sumbal
Sumbal is 23 km from Srinagar, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Nawabagh Ganderbalhuman settlement in India5.5 km
- Safaporatown in Jammu and Kashmir, India4.7 km
- Zazunvillage in Jammu and Kashmir, India5.2 km