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Largest, Smallest, Highest and Longest in India
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Largest, Smallest, Highest and Longest in India
Biggest Hotel Oberai-Sheraton on the Shore of the Arabian Sea in South Bombay.
Highest Mountain Peak K2(8,611 meters)
Largest Populated City Mumbai
Longest River (Flow in India) Ganga (2510 Kilometers)
Highest Waterfall Gersoppa Waterfall, Karnataka, (830 feet)
Largest Lake Wular Lake, Kashmir
Longest Electric Railway Line Kolkata to Delhi
Longest State (area) Rajasthan (4,43,446 sq. kilometers)
Largest State (population) Uttar Pradesh (166,17, 921)-2001 census
Longest River Bridge Mahatama Gandhi Setu, Patna (5.75 kilometer Long)
Highest Gateway Buland Darwaja 54 meters (Fatehpur sikari, Agra)
Wettest place or heaviest rainfall Masinram (Meghalaya)
Tallest Statue Statue of Gomateshwar, Karnataka (47 meters high)
Largest Tunnel Jawahar Tunnel (J & K State), 1½ kilometer., Banihal Pass)
Largest Museum Indian Museum, Kolkata
Densest population West Bengal (904 persons per sq. kilometers)
Largest Zoo Zoological Gardens, Alipur, Kolkata
Largest Forest State Asom
Largest Road Grand Trunk Road (2,400 kilometers)
Largest Delta Sunderban Delta (12,872 sq. kilometers)
Largest Cave Temple Ellora (Kailash Temples, Maharashtra)
Largest Cantilever Span Bridge Howrah Bridge (Kolkata)
Highest Tower Qutub Minar, Delhi
Largest Mosque Jama Masjid, Delhi
Highest Straight Gravity Dam Bhakra Dam
Smallest State (area) Goa
Smallest State (population) Sikkim
Largest Desert Thar (Rajasthan)
Largest man-made lake Govind Sagar (Bhakra)
Largest Corridor Rameshwaram Temple Corridor
Largest Animal Fair Sonepur Fair, Bihar
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