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Sonipat
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  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[2] |
| Area | |
• Total | 181 km2 (70 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 224.15 m (735.40 ft) |
| Population | |
• Total | 277,053 [1] |
| Languages[4][5] | |
| • Official | Hindi, Haryanvi |
| • Regional | Haryanvi[6] |
| 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 44 kilometres (27 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 Sonprastha.
On 22 December 1972, Sonipat 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.
- ^ "Provisional Population Totals, Census of India 2011; Cities having population 1 lakh and above" (PDF). Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 May 2012. Retrieved 26 March 2012.
- ^ "Administration : Sonipat Municipal Corporation". 15 June 2024.
- ^ "About Sonepat". mcsonepat.gov.in. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
- ^ "Report of the Commissioner for linguistic minorities: 52nd report (July 2014 to June 2015)" (PDF). Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities, Ministry of Minority Affairs, Government of India. p. 24. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 November 2016. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
- ^ IANS (28 January 2010). "Haryana grants second language status to Punjabi". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
- ^ "Haryanvi". Ethnologue. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
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