Gop,_Odisha

Gop, Odisha

Gop, Odisha

Town in Odisha, India

Gop (also known as "Gope")[1][2][3] is a town and a NAC under jurisdiction of Puri district in the Indian state of Odisha.

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Geography

Gop is located at 20.00°N 86.01°E / 20.00; 86.01.[4] It has an average elevation of 6 metres (20 ft).

Gop is famous for the Sun temple, Kathiawar (5th and 6th century AD) comprises square sanctum circumscribed by double courtyards.[5] The important places like Biratunga,[6] Begunia, Nimapara, Nagapur, Kakatpur, Bhaimapur, Ganeswarpur, Kusabhadra surround Gop.

It is about thirty kilometres from Puri, at the junction where the Konark road branches from the Bhubaneswar to Puri road.[7]

Politics

Gop is part of Jagatsinghpur (Lok Sabha constituency).[8]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Gop Map — Satellite Images of Gop
  2. [2]
    Weather statistics for Gop in Odisha (India)
  3. [3]
    Gop PIN Code, Puri
  4. [4]
    Falling Rain Genomics, Inc - Gop
  5. [5]
    Harish Chandra Das (1985). Cultural development in Orissa. Punthi Pustak. p. 262.
  6. [6]
    "Village Biratunga is located near Gop". Archived from the original on 17 June 2011. Retrieved 13 June 2011.
  7. [7]
    various. Eng Mahabharata Revisited 1. Sahitya Akademi. p. 2. ISBN 978-81-260-2123-9.
  8. [8]
    "Assembly Constituencies - Corresponding Districts and Parliamentary Constituencies of Odisha" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 November 2005. Retrieved 17 September 2008.
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