Delhi Wikipedia. Not to be confused with New Delhi, the capital of India, located entirely within the city of Delhi. Delhi. Union territory and City. National Capital Territory of Delhi. Location of Delhi in India. Coordinates 2. 83. Iso Standard For Pressure Gauge Calibration on this page. N7. 71. 34. 8E 2. N 7. 7. 2. 30. 00E 2. Coordinates 2. 83. N7. 71. 34. 8E 2. N 7. 7. 2. 30. 00E 2. Country India. Settled. B. C., 3. 00. 0 B. C. from legendIncorporated. Capital formation. Formation of Union Territory121. Formation of NCT31 February 1. Capital. New Delhi. Districts. 11. Government  Lt. Governor. Anil Baijal4  Chief Minister. Arvind Kejriwal AAP  Legislature. Unicameral 7. 0 seats  High Court. Delhi High Court  Police commissioner. This is a 313 meter mirrorfinish, stainlesssteel Cross to be built near Mt. Jesus. Amulya Patnaik5Area  Union territory. Water. 18 km. 2 6. Area rank. 31st. Elevation. Population 2. 01. Union territory. 16,7. Density. 11,3. 12km. Urban71. 6,3. 49,8. City61. 1,0. 34,5. Metro 2. 01. 682. DemonymsDelhiite. Languages  Official. Hindi9  Additional official. I Say A Little Prayer For You Midi File. Vinson Particles Serial Number' title='Vinson Particles Serial Number' />Punjabi, Urdu9Time zone. IST UTC5. 3. 0Pincodes1. XXArea codes9. ISO 3. IN DLMetro GDP1. PPP1. Websitedelhi. gov. Vinson Particles Serial Number' title='Vinson Particles Serial Number' />Delhi, Hindustani pronunciation dlliDilli, officially the National Capital Territory of Delhi or NCT, is a city and a union territory of India. It is bordered by Haryana on three sides and by Uttar Pradesh to the east. The NCT covers an area of 1,4. According to 2. 01. Delhis city proper population was over 1. India after Mumbai, while the whole NCTs population was about 1. Delhis urban area is now considered to extend beyond the NCT boundary to include an estimated population of over 2. Kilauea Mount Etna Mount Yasur Mount Nyiragongo and Nyamuragira Piton de la Fournaise Erta Ale. The ecosystem of a river is the river viewed as a system operating in its natural environment, and includes biotic living interactions amongst plants, animals and. M. I. A. Rapper Arular 18Jul1975Jack Ma Business Founder of Alibaba 1964YoYo Ma Cellist Cellist, The Silk Road Ensemble 07Oct1955Peter Maas Author. As of 2. 01. 6update recent estimates of the metro economy of its urban area have ranked Delhi either the top or second most productive metro area of India. Delhi is the second wealthiest city after Mumbai in India, with a total wealth of 4. Delhi has been continuously inhabited since the 6th century BC. Through most of its history, Delhi has served as a capital of various kingdoms and empires. It has been captured, ransacked and rebuilt several times, particularly during the medieval period, and modern Delhi is a cluster of a number of cities spread across the metropolitan region. A union territory, the political administration of the NCT of Delhi today more closely resembles that of a state of India, with its own legislature, high court and an executive council of ministers headed by a Chief Minister. New Delhi is jointly administered by the federal government of India and the local government of Delhi, and is the capital of the NCT of Delhi. Delhi hosted the first and ninth Asian Games in 1. NAM Summit, 2. 01. Mens Hockey World Cup, 2. Commonwealth Games, 2. BRICS Summit and was one of the major host cities of the 2. Cricket World Cup. Delhi is also the centre of the National Capital Region NCR, which is a unique interstate regional planning area created by the National Capital Region Planning Board Act of 1. ToponymyeditThere are a number of myths and legends associated with the origin of the name Delhi. One of them is derived from Dhillu or Dilu, a king who built a city at this location in 5. BC and named it after himself. Another legend holds that the name of the city is based on the HindiPrakrit word dhili loose and that it was used by the Tomaras to refer to the city because the Iron Pillar of Delhi had a weak foundation and had to be moved. The coins in circulation in the region under the Tomaras were called dehliwal. According to the Bhavishya Purana, King Prithiviraja of Indraprastha built a new fort in the modern day Purana Qila area for the convenience of all four castes in his kingdom. He ordered the construction of a gateway to the fort and later named the fort dehali. Some historians believe that the name is derived from Dilli, a corruption of the Hindustani words dehleez or dehaliboth terms meaning threshold or gatewayand symbolic of the city as a gateway to the Gangetic Plain. Another theory suggests that the citys original name was Dhillika. The people of Delhi are referred to as Delhiites or Dilliwalas. The city is referenced in various idioms of the Northern Indo Aryan languages. Examples include Abhi Dilli door hai or its Persian version, Hanouz Dehli dour ast, literally meaning Delhi is still far away, which is generically said about a task or journey still far from completion. Dilli dilwalon ka shehr or Dilli Dilwalon ki meaning Delhi belongs to the large hearteddaring. Aas paas barse, Dilli pani tarse, literally meaning it pours all around, while Delhi lies parched. An allusion to the sometimes semi arid climate of Delhi, it idiomatically refers to situations of deprivation when one is surrounded by plenty. HistoryeditAshokas Pillar edict on the ridge near Hindu Rao Hospital, New Delhi. The area around Delhi was probably inhabited before the second millennium BC and there is evidence of continuous inhabitation since at least the 6th century BC. The city is believed to be the site of Indraprastha, the legendary capital of the Pandavas in the Indian epic Mahabharata. Art Deco Border'>Art Deco Border. According to Mahabharata, this land was initially a huge mass of forests called Khandavaprastha which was burnt down to build the city of Indraprastha. The earliest architectural relics date back to the Maurya period c. BC in 1. 96. 6, an inscription of the Mauryan Emperor Ashoka 2. BC was discovered near Srinivaspuri. Remains of eight major cities have been discovered in Delhi. The first five cities were in the southern part of present day Delhi. King Anang Pal of the Tomara dynasty founded the city of Lal Kot in AD 7. Prithviraj Chauhan conquered Lal Kot in 1. Qila Rai Pithora. The king Prithviraj Chauhan was defeated in 1. Muhammad Ghori, a Muslim invader from Afghanistan, who made a concerted effort to conquer northern India. By 1. 20. 0, native Hindu resistance had begun to crumble, the dominance of foreign Turkic Muslim dynasties in north India was to last for the next five centuries. The slave general of Ghori, Qutb ud din Aibak was given the responsibility of governing the conquered territories of India and then Ghori returned to his capital, Ghor. He died in 1. 20. AD. He had no heirs and so his generals declared themselves independent in different parts of his empire. Qutb ud din assumed control of Ghoris Indian possessions. He laid the foundation of the Delhi Sultanate and the Mamluk Dynasty. Qutb Minar and Quwwat al Islam Might of Islam mosque, the earliest extant mosque in India. Qutb ud din faced widespread Hindu rebellions because he broke several ancient templesclarification needed to acquire wealth and material to build mosques and other monuments. It was his successor, Iltutmish 1. Turkic conquest of northern India. Razia Sultan, daughter of Iltutmish, succeeded him as the Sultan of Delhi. She is the first and only woman to rule over Delhi. For the next three hundred years, Delhi was ruled by a succession of Turkic and an Afghan, Lodhi dynasty. They built several forts and townships that are part of the seven cities of Delhi. Delhi was a major centre of Sufism during this period. The Mamluk Sultanate Delhi was overthrown in 1. Jalal ud din Firuz Khalji 1. Under the second Khalji ruler, Ala ud din Khalji, the Delhi sultanate extended its control south of the Narmada River in the Deccan.