Sonipat
Sonipat
Svarnaprastha | |
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Sonipat Junction railway station, Technology Park and Mata Chintapurni Mandir in Sonipat, Haryana | |
Sonipat Location in Haryana, India Sonipat Sonipat (India) | |
| Coordinates: 28°59′24″N 77°01′19″E / 28.990°N 77.022°E | |
| Country | India |
| State | Haryana |
| Division | Rohtak |
| District | Sonipat |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipal corporation |
| • Body | Sonipat Municipal Corporation |
| • Mayor | Rajeev Jain (BJP) |
| • Lok Sabha MP | Satpal Brahamchari (INC) |
| • MLA | Nikhil Madaan (BJP) |
| • Municipal Commissioner | Sunita Verma, IAS |
| Area | |
• Total | 181 km2 (70 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 224.15 m (735.4 ft) |
| Population | |
• Total | 277,053 |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Hindi |
| • Additional official | Punjabi |
| • Regional | Haryanvi |
| Time zone | UTC+5.30 (Indian Standard Time) |
| PIN | 131001 |
| Telephone Code | +91-130 |
| ISO 3166 code | IN-HR |
| Vehicle registration | HR-10, HR-69(Commercial Vehicles), HR-99(Temporary), DL-14 Sonipat (Delhi NCR), HR-86 |
| Sex Ratio | 1.19 |
| Effective literacy | 85.48% |
| Website | sonipat |
Sonipat is a planned industrial city and administrative headquarter in Sonipat district of Haryana state of India. It comes under the National Capital Region and is around 45 kilometres (28 mi) from New Delhi. It lies 214 km (128 miles) southwest of Chandigarh, the state capital. The Yamuna River runs along its eastern boundary. Sonipat was historically known as Swarnprastha.
On 22 December 1972, Sonipat was designated a full-fledged district. Sonipat Junction railway station is the main railway junction on Delhi-Kalka line. It lies on Delhi Western Peripheral Expressway, Eastern Peripheral Expressway (NE II) and Grand Trunk Road (NH 44) as well as the planned Delhi–Sonipat–Panipat Regional Rapid Transit System.