Kashi
Banaras
Benares
Avimukta
Ānandavana
Rudravāsa
Coordinates: 25°19′08″N 83°00′46″E / 25.31889°N 83.01278°E / 25.31889; 83.01278 Coordinates : 25°19′08″N 83°00′46″E / 25.31889°N 83.01278°E / 25.31889; 83.01278 Country IndiaState Uttar Pradesh Division Varanasi District Varanasi • Type Municipal Corporation • Body Varanasi Municipal Corporation • Mayor Mridula Jaiswal (BJP ) • Divisional Commissioner Deepak Agarwal, IAS • District Magistrate Kaushal Raj Sharma, IAS • Inspector General , Varanasi Range Vijay Singh Meena, IPS • Senior Superintendent of Police Prabhakar Chaudhary, IPS • Metropolis 112.10 km2 (43.28 sq mi) Elevation
80.71 m (264.80 ft) • Metropolis 1,201,815 • Rank 32nd • Density 10,720.9/km2 (27,767.1/sq mi) • Metro 1,432,280 (32nd ) • Official Hindi • Additional official Urdu • Regional Bhojpuri Time zone UTC+5:30 (IST )PIN 221 001 to** (** area code)
Vehicle registration UP 65 GDP $3.07 billion (2016–17) Per capita income INR 1,93 616 Sex ratio 0.926 (2011) ♂ /♀ Literacy (2011) 80.12% HDI 0.645 Website varanasi .nic .in
Varanasi (Sanskrit : वाराणसी Vārāṇasī ,Telugu : వారణాసి, [ʋaːɾaːɳəsiː), also commonly known as Banaras and Kashi, is a city on the banks of the river Ganga (Ganges) in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Hindus , Buddhists and Jains think it is holy. It is one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the world along with Damascus .
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