Srinagar (ind)

Srinagar

Srinagar ranks 1,089th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Hamadan, Ogden, Utah, and Wittenberg. Memorable people born in Srinagar include Joanna Lumley, Hugh Keays-Byrne, and Subhash Kak. Memorable people who died in Srinagar include Syama Prasad Mukherjee, Sheikh Abdullah, and Mirza Muhammad Haidar Dughlat. Srinagar has been the birth place of many actors, and politicians and the death place of many politicians. Srinagar is located in India.

Srinagar is a city in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region. It is the largest city and summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, which is an Indian-administered union territory. It lies in the Kashmir Valley along the banks of the Jhelum River, and the shores of Dal Lake and Anchar Lakes, between the Hari Parbat and Shankaracharya hills. The city is known for its natural environment, various gardens, waterfronts and houseboats. It is also known for traditional Kashmiri handicrafts like the Kashmir shawl, papier-mâché, wood carving, carpet weaving, and jewel making, as well as for dried fruits. It is the second-largest metropolitan area in the Himalayas. Read more on Wikipedia