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7 unusual facts about Gorakhpur


Alakh Niranjan

The city of Gorakhpur in North India is named after the legendary Yogi.

Barauni–Gorakhpur, Raxaul and Jainagar lines

The Barauni–Gorakhpur, Raxaul and Jainagar lines are a set of three lines connecting Barauni in the Indian state of Bihar with Gorakhpur in Uttar Pradesh.

Gatesville Municipal Airport

Although most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Gatesville Municipal Airport is assigned GOP (formerly 05F) by the FAA but has no designation from the IATA (which assigned GOP to Gorakhpur Airport in Gorakhpur, India).

Gorakshanath

Gorakhpur, the district headquarters of Gorakhpur District, is believed to derive its name from Guru Gorakhnath.

Gorchha

According to their traditions, the Gorchha are by origin Kalhans Rajputs, who immigrated from Gorakhpur to Kheri, and were known as Gorakhiya, or someone hailing from Gorakhpur.

Hunting the Lion–An eyewitness record of 1922 trial of Mahatma Gandhiji

“As many as 22 policemen were burnt alive by a rampaging mob after the police fired on a procession of Satyagrahis (Activists) in Chauri Chaura near Gorakhpur, India on February 4, 1922.

Oldhamite

It was first described in 1862 for an occurrence in the Bustee meteorite, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India.


Banarasi saris

The sari making is more of a cottage industry for about 12 lakh people associated directly or indirectly with the handloom silk industry of the region around Varanasi encompassing Gorakhpur, Chandauli, Bhadohi, Jaunpur and Azamgarh districts.

Gorakhpur Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Superfast Express

The 12541/12542 Gorakhpur Lokmanya Tilak Terminus Superfast Express is a Superfast express train belonging to Indian Railways that run between Gorakhpur Junction and Lokmanya Tilak Terminus in India.

Hindustan Dainik

They are spread across Delhi, Bihar (Patna, Muzaffarpur, Gaya and Bhagalpur), Jharkhand (Ranchi, Jamshedpur and Dhanbad), Uttar Pradesh (Lucknow, Varanasi, Meerut, Agra, Allahabad, Gorakhpur, Bareilly, Moradabad, Aligarh, and Kanpur) and Uttarakhand (Dehradun, Haridwar, Haldwani).

Kollam Junction railway station

Trains from here connect the city of Kollam to major cities of India, including New Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Indore, Bhopal, Hyderabad, Thiruvananthapuram, Mumbai, Madurai, Vizag, Jammu, Howrah, Guwahati, Madgaon, Hubli, Ahmedabad, Gwalior, Nagpur, Pune, Kota, Bhubaneshwar, Gorakhpur, Kochi, Kozhikode, Vijayawada, Bhubaneshwar, Coimbatore and Mangalore.

Nanaji Deshmukh

Within three years, his hard work bore fruits and almost 250 Sangh Shakhas commenced in and around Gorakhpur.

Okha railway station

There were trains to different destinations in India like Mumbai, Gorakhpur, Visakhapatnam, Guwahati, Rameswaram.

Yasir Abbasi

After completing his initial schooling from Gorakhpur and Lucknow, he completed his Masters in Mass Communication from Mass Communication Research Centre, Jamia Millia Islamia in 2002.


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