Patna

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Patna is the capital of the Indian state of Bihar and the second largest city in eastern India after Kolkata.
Patna is the 5th-fastest growing city in India and 21st fastest growing city in world. Patna is also one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in the world.
Ancient Patna, known as Pataliputra, was the capital of the Magadha Empire. Pataliputra was also a famous seat of learning and fine arts.
The modern city of Patna is situated on the southern bank of the Ganga. The city also straddles the rivers Sone, Gandak and Punpun. The city is approximately 25 km long and 9 km to 10 km wide.
In June 2009,The World Bank ranked Patna as the second-best city in India to start a business, after Delhi. The economy of Patna is based on the local service industry.
The Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain pilgrim centres of Vaishali, Rajgir, Nalanda, Bodhgaya, and Pawapuri are nearby and Patna is also a sacred city for Sikhs. The Sikh Guru, Guru Gobind Singh, was born here. Interestingly, from India, five Emperors are considered as "The Great": Ashoka, Chandragupta, Vikaramaditya, Samudragupta and Akbar. Barring Akbar, all of them belonged to Patna (Patliputra).
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patna
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Coordinates:   25°35'46"N   85°8'32"E

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  • A nice city. My hometown.
  • A Great Historical City Originally Patliputra, capital of Ashoka! Situated on the bank of river ganga! A really great place!
  • Patna, population 2298, is also a village in East Ayrshire, Scotland. It was established in 1802 by William Fullarton, to provide housing for workers on the coal-fields of his estate. Fullarton's father had worked as an employee of the British East India Company, and the town takes its name from the city of Patna in India. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patna,_Scotland
  • My Dear friends of whole world, We welcome you to your own city of ancient history, glory, fashion with tradition, culture, and modern educational development hub PATNA. You must try LITTI and CHOKHA, Imarti, Chandrakala, Sattu in Patna. These are exclusively available here with excellent taste, health and easily digestive recepies of PATNA. I appeal you all to invest in BIHAR for its industrial development. You will easily find huge manpower with excellence in skills, hard working, ambtious, dreamers and achievers specially in field of AGRICULTURE, TEXTILE, FOOD TECHNOLOGY, PHARMA, BIOTECH, TOURISM, EDUCATION, MANUFACTURING sectors. Here soil is rich, manpower is available @ cheap rate, lands are available, all 3 climates (Summer, Rain, Winter), so please come and enjoy BIHAR with its pilgrims of LORD Buddha, Mahavir, and Patan Devi. WARM WELCOME TO ALL
  • Dear friends it is a city of politically sencetive persons all most all meger political issues were initiated from here like jai prakesh andoolan which turns the indian political scinario . Mandal commission implmantation etc.
  • PATNA is my native place.I was born there its the cradle of my childhood. having a lot of memories Patna muslim high school/patna collage/botnical garden. i really miss this place & people (friends) this is the place which always attract me.I have to go patna to die. miss u a lot patna.
  • Patna is a very nice place to visit.
  • so much traffic jam in patna
  • BEST PLACE IN INDIA . I LOVE MAURYA LOK IN PATNA. I PROUD 2 BE A PATANIYA .
  • let ne tell u all that my city is one of the oldest cities of the world(only few cities have history dating back to about650 b.c.) which has remained capital for the mightiest empire india has ever seen(mauryas..n guptas..)..home to many scholars (be it chanakya or arybhatta..the list is long) or...birth place of the first republic of the world.(vaishali..the then part of ancient patliputra)..... it has nurtured many religions including buddhism or jainism..( gautam buddha became "buddha" at bodh gaya..near patna..n jainism recieved first patronage frm its rulers..to be more precise it was chandragupta 1 grandfather of ashoka who accepted n patronised it for d first time as a ruler). moreover ..it has a gurudwara where guru govind singh ji was born n is one of the most scared place for sikhs... well i can go on writing n d list will never end... i am proud to be a part of this city n also to be a bihari..........
  • It was a very powerful city but now it is not much. Time will come soon for it.
  • I have no so more words for explanation of PATNA.
  • PATNA.... PATNA ,.....PATNA JUST VISIT AND SEE HOW MANY INTERESTING THINGS HERE.
  • Nice to see hospitality of Patnaites after a long time :)
  • THIS IS MY CAPITAL OF BIHAR
  • PATNA IS A NICE PLACE I LIVE 3 YEARS IN PATNA I STUDY IN B.D. EVENING COLLEGE MITHAPUR
  • Just shifted from Gurgaon tp Ptna. I am really enjoying this fully developed city of Patna.
  • patna is the capital of me
  • Patna is a historical city. It was known as Pataliputra.Patna has so many things to attract tourists of all tastes and choices.
  • Anshu Dikshant Singh "Chandan" {At+Po.- Rajpur, P.S.- Raghunathpur, Dis.- Siwan (Bihar)}
  • The powerful city is gonna get back to it's days of glory...Jai ho
  • i am really proud of the city 'patna'.
  • PATNA IS NICE
  • i love my patna city
  • i love my city
  • I love to be patania
  • i love my hometown and i miss it alot........
  • vikarmaditya and akber were ruller of patliputra ? please explain
  • The Capital Of Bihar Patna old Name Patliputra is a good place among the all cities of World in respect of Humanity,love and peace. Rahul Kumar Singh,Political Writer
  • I am an Indian first then a bihari and patnaties but I love my city, patna!
  • I miss it tooo
  • patna is the outstanding state of bihar I lovely city patna
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