Ballia

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Ballia

Total population

104,400

Elevation159 m

Land area16 km²

Coordinates25.76°, 84.15°

Demographic figures from Ministry of Statistics (India). Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

Ballia is a city with a municipal board in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The eastern boundary of the city lies at the junction of two major rivers, the Ganges and the Ghaghara. The city is situated 150 km (93 mi) equidistant from Gorakhpur & Varanasi and about 380 km from the state capital Lucknow. Ballia is around 120 km (75 mi) from Patna, Bihar. It is home to a protected area, the Jai Prakash Narayan bird sanctuary.

History & geography

Excerpted from the corresponding Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA).

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Mangal Pandey

India's First Freedom Fighter (1827–1857)

Jayaprakash Narayan

Indian independence activist and political leader

Hazari Prasad Dwivedi

Hindi novelist, literary historian, essayist, critic and scholar from India

A

Amar Kant

Indian writer (1925-2014)

B

Baldev Upadhyaya

Indian historian (1899–1999)

Ganesh Prasad

Indian mathematician (1876-1935)

Janeshwar Mishra

Indian politician (1933–2010)

N

Nushoor Wahidi

Indian poet

Sandeep Pandey

Indian activist

D

Doodhnath Singh

Hindi language writer, poet and critic

R

Ram Govind Chaudhary

Indian politician

H

Harihar Nath Shastri

Indian politician

H

Harinarayan Rajbhar

Indian politician

B

Bharat Singh

Indian politician,member of parliament from ballia constituency, former Minister and MLA in Uttar Pradesh

O

O.P. Sharma

Indian Magician

V

Virendra Singh

Lok Sabha member for Bhadohi, India

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Uttar Pradesh

• Sahatwar
  11 mi away
• Rasra
  19.7 mi away · pop. 10,000
• Mohammadabad
  26.2 mi away
• Belthara Road
  31.5 mi away
• Seorai
  33 mi away
• Dewal
  33.3 mi away
• Ghazipur
  36.8 mi away · pop. 110,600
• Dildarnagar
  37.8 mi away · pop. 42,121
• Mau
  38.2 mi away · pop. 210,071
• Salempur
  40 mi away · pop. 5,000
• Aurangabad
  40.4 mi away
• Kopaganj
  40.5 mi away · pop. 30,828

Browse all places in Uttar Pradesh →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Ballia

Rediscovering Ballia (Indian District in Uttar Pradesh)

Chit G. Dukhira · 2012

Geology and groundwater resources of the Azamgarh-Ballia region, Eastern Uttar Pradesh

B. D. Pathak · 1967

Uttar Pradesh district gazetteers.

Uttar Pradesh (India) · 1959

Uttar Pradesh district gazetteers

Uttar Pradesh (India). Revenue Department · 1959

Geology and groundwater resources in parts of Jaunpur, Azamgarh, Ballia, Allahabad, Sultanpur, and Faizabad districts, Uttar Pradesh

1978

Geology and ground water resources in parts of Jaunpur, Azamgarh, Ballia, Allahbad, Sultanpur, and Faizabad district, Uttar Pradesh

B. D. Pathak · 1978

District census handbook : series 21, Uttar Pradesh

India. Director of Census Operations, Uttar Pradesh.

District census handbook, Uttar Pradesh

India. Superintendent, Census Operations, Uttar Pradesh · 1953

Search results from Open Library.

Recently spotted species

House Crow

Corvus splendens

Seen 2021-12-11

Dancing Dropwing

Trithemis pallidinervis

Seen 2020-08-26

Gymnopleurus cyaneus

Gymnopleurus cyaneus

Seen 2018-06-30

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).