Ghatampur is a town and a

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Kanpur Nagar district Kanpur Nagar district, meaning Urban Kanpur District is one of the districts of the Uttar Pradesh state of India. It is a part of Kanpur division and its district headquarters is Kanpur. Ka of npur was formerly spelled Cawnpore. Notable peo ...

in the state of

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. It is 40 km away from

Kanpur Kanpur (Hindustani language, Hindustani: ), originally named Kanhapur and formerly anglicized as Cawnpore, is the second largest city of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of Uttar Pradesh after Lucknow. It was the primary ...

, the main industrial and educational hub of the state.

History

About 15 km North-East of Ghatampur is the small town of

Bhitargaon Bhitargaon is a town, near city of Kanpur in Kanpur Nagar district, Uttar Pradesh, India, known for its ancient Hindu temple, the largest Indian brick temple to survive from the time of the Gupta Empire. Despite being heavily restored, a numb ...

, site of a historical temple from the Gupta Period. Ghatampur was part of Kanpur district but was merged with Kanpur Nagar after the district's bifurcation into Kanpur Nagar and Kanpur Rural. Earlier, Ghatampur had both a

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and a

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constituency for the election process. The reshuffling of seats by the

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led to the creation of the new Akbarpur Lok Sabha constituency in the 2008 General Elections.

Geography

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/ref> It has an average elevation of 122 meters (400 feet) Ghatampur is situated about 30–40 km from southwest from

Downtown and about 130 km from

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(State Capital).

References

External links

Uttar Pradesh Assembly Elections 2012Ghatampur Assembly Elections 2012
* https://kanpurnagar.nic.in/tourist-place/bhitargaon-temple/ {{Kanpur Nagar district Cities and towns in Kanpur Nagar district