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New Delhi (inhabited place) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 28 36 00 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 28.6000 decimal degrees |
| Long: 077 12 00 E degrees minutes |
Long: 77.2000 decimal degrees |
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Note: Situated south of Delhi; designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and others; wide avenues, formal buildings and systematized traffic flow of New Delhi constrast sharply with the complex street patterns of crowded Delhi; scene of Mahatma Gandhi's assassination 1948. |
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| New Delhi (preferred,C,V,English-P,U)
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| Neu-Delhi (C,O)
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| New Dilli (NA,V)
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| नई दिल्ली (NA,V,Hindi,U)
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| ਨਵੀਂ ਦਿੱਲੀ (NA,V,Panjabi,U)
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| نئی دلی (NA,V,Urdu,U)
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| ניו דלהי (C,U,Hebrew )
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Asia (continent) (P) |
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Delhi (union territory) (P) |
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| inhabited place (preferred, C) |
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Viceroy moved here in 1929 |
| city (C) |
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formally opened 1931 |
| national capital (C) |
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since 1947 |
| commercial center (C) |
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Bhārat .......... (nation) |
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(World, Asia) [7000198] |
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