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Noida, Uttar Pradesh
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About Noida
- Inland
Where it is
Noida is a planned city in the Gautam Buddh Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh, on the floodplain between the Yamuna and Hindon rivers, bordering Delhi to the north-west within the National Capital Region.
History
Noida was created on 17 April 1976 as a planned industrial township next to Delhi, and the date is still marked as Noida Day. It grew from factories into a hub of IT companies, television studios and electronics manufacturing, while Greater Noida and the Yamuna Expressway carried development south towards Agra.
People
Hindi is the main language, with Braj Bhasha and Khari Boli heard in the older villages, and Urdu and Punjabi also spoken. Professionals and workers from across India live in its numbered sectors and high-rise housing societies.
Known for
- Film City's television studios
- IT parks and mobile phone factories
- Okhla Bird Sanctuary on the Yamuna
- Noida Botanical Garden
- Large shopping malls
Did you know?
Noida's name is an acronym of New Okhla Industrial Development Authority, the body set up in 1976 to build it, and the city is now one of India's leading centres of mobile phone manufacturing.
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