Ambehta is a town and a
nagar panchayat
A nagar panchayat () or town panchayat or Notified Area Council (NAC) in India is a settlement in transition from rural to urban and therefore a form of an urban political unit comparable to a municipality. An urban centre with more than 12,00 ...
in the
Saharanpur district
Saharanpur district is the northernmost of the districts of Uttar Pradesh state, India. Bordering the states of Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand, and close to the foothills of Shivalik range, it lies in the northern part of the Doab ...
in the state of
Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh ( ; UP) is a States and union territories of India, state in North India, northern India. With over 241 million inhabitants, it is the List of states and union territories of India by population, most populated state in In ...
,
India
India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since ...
.
Demographics
India
census
A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ...
,
Ambehta had a population of 15,739. Males constitute 51.75% of the population and females 48.24%. Ambehta has an average literacy rate of 62.27%, lower than the national average of 74.04%; with 69.75% of the males and 54.25% of females literate. 16.46% of the population is under 6 years of age.
Notable residents
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Abidullah Ghazi, a prominent Muslim author and scholar
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Khalil Ahmad Anbahtawi Saharanpuri, Islamic scholar
References
Cities and towns in Saharanpur district
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