Delhi (ind)

Delhi

Delhi ranks 207th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Haarlem, Kingston, Jamaica, and Sapporo. Memorable people born in Delhi include Alauddin Khalji, Ibrahim Lodi, and Syed Ahmad Khan. Memorable people who died in Delhi include Surya Bahadur Thapa, Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, and Zeb-un-Nissa. Delhi has been the birth place of many actors, and politicians and the death place of many politicians, and writers. Delhi is located in India.

Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India. Straddling the Yamuna river, but spread chiefly to the west, or beyond its right bank, Delhi shares borders with the state of Uttar Pradesh in the east and with the state of Haryana in the remaining directions. Delhi became a union territory on 1 November 1956 and the NCT in 1995. The NCT covers an area of 1,484 square kilometres (573 sq mi). According to the 2011 census, Delhi's city proper population was over 11 million, while the NCT's population was about 16.8 million. Read more on Wikipedia