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Which place is called manchester of north India?


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Kanpur is a city, which is located centrally in the Ganga basin. This city is famous for cotton production. There are a good deal of cotton textile industry in kanpur. There are seventeen big cotton-textile mills in the city. It is therefore the biggest centre of cotton textile industry in north India. For this reason kanpur is known to be the Manchester of North India.


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