Facts about Gujarat
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Gujarat is derived from Sanskrit “Gurjar-Rashtra”.
Gujarat was known as Gurjaratra(country ruled or protected by the Gurjars) or
Gurjarabhumi (land of the Gurjars) for centuries prior to the Mughal period.
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Gujarat has the longest sea shore compared to any other Indian state.
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Gujarat has been one of the main centres of the Indus Valley Civilization. It contains major
ancient metropolitan cities from the Indus Valley such as lothal, dholavira and Gola Dhoro. India’s first port was
established at the ancient city of Lothal.
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Gujarat is locally known as Jewel
of the West.
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Gujarat has seventeen airports, which makes it the state with highest
number of operating airports in India.
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Gandhinagar is the greenest capital city in whole Asia.
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The first capital of Gujarat was
Ahmedabad ,the capital was moved to
Gandhinagar in 1970.
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Gujarat is having the least crime
against women among all Indian states after Goa.
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The oil refinery at Jamnagar is the worl’s largest grass-roots refinery. It is
operated by Reliance Petroleum Limited, which is one of the group companies of
Reliance Industries Limited founded by Dhirubhai Ambani.
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Ahmedabad is the city with the lowest crime rate among all Tier-I and Tier-II cities of India
as per National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) report.
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The world’s third largest denim manufacturer is Ahmedabad’s Arvind Mills.
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Did you know the fact that one in
every five Indian American is a Gujarati whereas one in every 20 Indians is a
Gujarati?
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The world’s first pure vegetarian Subway and Domino’s outlet was opened in Ahmedabad
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The Gujarati’s own more than 17,000 hotels and motels in the US, with one million rooms representing over 50
percent of U.S. economy lodges.
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Gujarati’s are key players in the multi-billion dollar diamond export
business all over the world from Africa
to the UK and US. 80 per cent of all diamonds sold anywhere in the world are
polished in Surat. The only non-Jews in the Tel Aviv and Jerusalem diamond
bourse are Gujaratis.
· An average income of a Gujarati family in North America is three times
more than the average income of an American family.
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Over 60% of Indian Population in North America is Gujarati.
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The first all vegetarian
Pizza-Hut was opened in Ahmedabad.
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Gujarat is the only home of Asiatic Lions.
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Gujarat is the only present natural habitat of lions outside Africa.
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India’s only Liquid Chemical Port Terminal at Dahej, developed by Gujarat
Chemical Port Terminal Co. Ltd. Gujarat has two of the three Liquefied Natural
Gas (LNG) terminals in the country (Dahej and Hazira).
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The Maharaja Sayajirao University(MSU) in the city of Vadodara is largest university in Gujarat and India
Today has ranked it at tenth place in their list of India’s best universities,
while Hindustan Times has ranked it at sixth place.
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87.9% of the total roads in the state are asphalt surfaced. 98.86% village
connectivity with all‐weather roads, the
highest in India.
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100% of Gujarat’s 18,000 villages have electricity connection.
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Gujarat ranks first nationwide in gas-based thermal electricity generation
with national market share of over 8% and second nationwide in nuclear
electricity generation with national market share of over 1%.
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Gujarat is the largest producer of milk
in India.
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Amul - Anand milk co-operative federation products are well known all over
India, and it is Asia’s biggest dairy.
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Gujarat produces about 98% of India’s required amount of Soda Ash and
gives the country about 78% of its national requirement of salt.
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Surat is the third cleanest city in India after Chandigarh and Mysore.
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Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad(IIMA) is Asia’s 1st and world’s
45th ranked management college located in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
