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Delhi is the second-largest metropolis in India after Mumbai with a population of 13 million.Located in northern India on the banks of the River Yamuna.Delhi has the political status of a federally-administered union territory known as the National Capital Territory of Delhi. Under a Constitutional amendment in 991.Delhi was given its own legislative assembly with limited powers.The metropolis consists of three coterminous census towns – Delhi, Delhi Cantonment,New Delhi – along with 214 villages.
Tourism Attraction :
Qutab Minar:
Built during the reign of Sultan Qutub-ud-din Aibak in 1199 A.D.
the Qutab Minar and 6 more arches to the Quwwat-ul-islam mosque.
Red Fort:
The Red Fort was the palace for Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan's new capital,Shahjahanabad, the seventh Muslim city in the Delhi site. He moved his capital from Agra in a move designed to bring prestige to his reign,and to provide ample opportunity to apply his ambitious building schemes and interests. The Red Fort stands at the eastern edge of Shahjahanabad, and gets its name from the massive wall of red sandstone that defines its four sides. The wall is 1.5 miles (2.5 km) long, and varies in height from 60ft (16m) on the river side to 110 ft (33 m) towards the city.Measurements have shown that the plan was generated using a square grid of 82 m.
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