Ahmedabad

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Ahmedabad is a big city in West India. It is the largest city in the Indian state of Gujarat and the seventh-largest city in India. Its population (amount of people living in it) is almost 5.1 million (5,100,000).[1] The river Sabarmati goes through it. Ahmedabad has a famous industry for textiles (clothes), which is why it is also called "the Manchester of the East."[2]

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  1. India: metropolitan areas. World Gazetteer. Retrieved on 4 March 2006.
  2. A. Srivathsan. "Manchester of the east", Young World, The Hindu, 2006-06-23. Retrieved on 2006-07-30.

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