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Jorhat
Jorhat, Assam: city and district headquarters in the Brahmaputra Valley, heart of India's tea industry with 135 estates, Tocklai Tea Research Institute (1911), and Assam Agricultural University.
Kalahandi
Kalahandi (Odia: କଳାହାଣ୍ଡି) is a district in Odisha, India, with headquarters at Bhawanipatna. Once the "rice bowl" of Odisha, it became a byword for drought and deprivation after 1980s starvation deaths.
Kalimpong
Kalimpong: hill town and district in the Darjeeling Himalayas, West Bengal, India; formed 14 February 2017 as the state's 21st district. Formerly Sikkim, then Bhutanese, ceded by the 1865 Treaty of Sinchula; population 251,642 (2011).
Kāmārhāti
Kamarhati (কামারহাটি) is a city and 1899-founded municipality in North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, on the Hooghly's east bank near Kolkata, within KMDA; 331,163 people (2011), 35 wards, Dakshineswar temple.
Katihar (city)
Katihar (कटिहार) is a city in northeastern Bihar, India, headquarters of Katihar district (created 1973 from Purnia). Census 2011: 226,261 city, 240,838 urban agglomeration; major seven-line Northeast Frontier Railway junction.
Khandwa (खंडवा)
Khandwa (खंडवा), also East Nimar, is a district and town in southwestern Madhya Pradesh, India, in Indore Division between the Narmada and Tapti rivers, known for Omkareshwar Jyotirlinga, the Indira Sagar Project, and singers Kishore Kumar's home.
Kharagpur
Kharagpur is a city in Paschim Medinipur, West Bengal, known for the South Eastern Railway's largest maintenance workshop and IIT Kharagpur, the first IIT, founded in 1951 at the former Hijli Detention Camp.
Kohima
Kohima, capital of Nagaland, India, at 1,444 m in the Naga hills; named after Kewhira village, home of the Angami Nagas. District population 267,988 (2011); municipal council of 19 wards; state capital since 1 December 1963.
Kolkata (কলকাতা)
Kolkata (কলকাতা), formerly Calcutta until 2001, is the capital of West Bengal on the Hooghly River, former capital of British India, India's third largest metropolitan area with over 15 million people, governed by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation.
Konark (କୋଣାର୍କ)
Konark (କୋଣାର୍କ), also Konaditya, is a coastal town in Puri district, Odisha, India, home to the 13th-century Sun Temple, a UNESCO World Heritage Site; NAC population 16,779 (2011).
Korba, Chhattisgarh
Korba (कोरबा), Chhattisgarh: district and industrial city, India's top coal and power district, formed 1998 from Bilaspur; Gevra, Kusmunda, Dipka mines, NTPC and BALCO plants, tribal-majority population.
Krishnanagar
Krishnanagar (কৃষ্ণনগর), also spelled Krishnagar, is a city in West Bengal, India, and the headquarters of Nadia district, on the Jalangi river about 100 km from Kolkata.
Kulti
Kulti, an industrial town in Paschim Bardhaman, West Bengal, on the Barakar river bordering Jharkhand; site of IISCO's Kulti works (India's first blast furnace, 1870; first steel, 1904), merged into Asansol Municipal Corporation in 2015 with 28 wards and 313,977 people (2011).
List of cities in Bihar by population
List of cities in Bihar by population ranks Bihar's 26 Census 2011 cities above 1 lakh, led by Patna (16,84,222; UA 20,49,156), then Gaya, Bhagalpur, and Muzaffarpur, with census definitions and urbanization context.
Madhyamgram
Madhyamgram (মধ্যমগ্রাম), also historically Majher Gaon, is a municipality town in Barasat subdivision, North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, about 25 km north-east of Kolkata, with 28 wards, rapid 2001–2011 growth of 26.45%, and a Sealdah-line railway station.
Maheshtala
Maheshtala (মাহেশতলা), a municipality in South 24 Parganas, West Bengal, on the east bank of the Hooghly River south of Kolkata; 448,317 people (2011), 44.18 sq km, 35 wards, constituted 1993, major waterlogging and new 35 MLD sewage plant.
Maheshwar (महेश्वर)
Maheshwar (महेश्वर), a town in Khargone district, Madhya Pradesh, on the Narmada; ancient Mahishmati, capital of Ahilyabai Holkar, and home of GI-tagged Maheshwari sarees with reversible bugdi borders.
Maihar (मैहर)
Maihar (मैहर) is a district in Rewa division, Madhya Pradesh, formed 5 October 2023 from Satna district as the state's 55th. Known for the Maa Sharda Shakti Peetha temple on Trikuta hill, the Allauddin Khan Maihar gharana, and cement industry.
Malda
Malda (Bengali: মালদা), also Maldah or English Bazar, a district and city in West Bengal, India; formed 1813, joined India 17 August 1947; known for Gour and Pandua ruins, Fazli mangoes, jute, and raw silk.
Mandsaur
Mandsaur (मंदसौर), ancient Dashapura, is a city and district in western Malwa, Madhya Pradesh, India. Known for the Aulikara dynasty, the 436 CE silk-weavers' Sun temple, Yashodharman's 528 CE victory over the Hunas, and as India's top licensed opium-producing district.
Mandu, Madhya Pradesh
Mandu (Mandavgad), a ruined fortress city in Dhar district, Madhya Pradesh, was the Malwa Sultans' capital in the 15th–16th centuries, famed for Jahaz Mahal, Jami Masjid, Hoshang Shah's marble tomb, and its UNESCO Tentative List status.
Mau, Uttar Pradesh
Mau (Maunath Bhanjan) is a district in eastern Uttar Pradesh, India, created 19 November 1988 from Azamgarh. Known for saree weaving, zari and kashidakari work, about 85,000 looms, and Nehru's 1957 "Manchester of India" description.
Mayapur (মায়াপুর)
Mayapur (মায়াপুর), a pilgrimage town in Nadia district, West Bengal, on the Ganges-Jalangi confluence 130 km from Kolkata; ISKCON's world headquarters, revered as Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's birthplace, site of the Temple of the Vedic Planetarium.
Medinīpur
Medinīpur (মেদিনীপুর), also Midnapore, is a town in West Bengal, India, headquarters of Paschim Medinipur district on the Kangsabati River; 2011 population 169,127, municipality founded 1865.
Mhow
Mhow, officially renamed Dr Ambedkar Nagar in 2003, is a town and military cantonment in Indore district, Madhya Pradesh, best known as the 1891 birthplace of B. R. Ambedkar.
Mirzāpur, Uttar Pradesh
Mirzāpur (मीरजापुर), or Mirzapur-cum-Vindhyachal, is a city on the Ganges in eastern Uttar Pradesh, India, headquarters of Mirzapur District, known for carpets, brassware, the Vindhyachal Shakti Peeth, and its clock tower on the IST reference longitude.
Munger
Munger (मुंगेर), historically Monghyr, is a city on the Ganges in Bihar, India, known for its hilltop fort, gun making, and the Bihar School of Yoga.
Murshidabad (মুর্শিদাবাদ)
Murshidabad (মুর্শিদাবাদ), a district and historic city in central West Bengal, was the capital of the Bengal Nawabs from 1704 under Murshid Quli Khan until the British moved the treasury to Calcutta in 1772; its Hazarduari Palace is the leading monument.
Murwāra
Murwara (Hindi: मुड़वारा, also Mudwara), officially Murwara (Katni), is a municipal corporation city on the Katni River in Madhya Pradesh, India, and headquarters of Katni district. Population 221,883 (2011); major railway junction with India's largest yard and diesel loco shed.
Muzaffarpur (मुज़फ़्फ़रपुर)
Muzaffarpur (मुज़फ़्फ़रपुर) is a district in north Bihar, India, formed in 1875 from Tirhut and named after Muzaffar Khan. Known as the Land of Litchi, it holds the GI-tagged Shahi Litchi and hosts the ICAR-National Research Centre on Litchi.