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Bhavnagar or Bhaunagar, city in western India, in Gujarat State on the Gulf of Khambhāt. The city is a rail terminus and has an extensive trade in cloth and timber. Industries include the manufacture of bricks, confectionery, fertilizer, ice, plastic and rubber products, textiles, vegetable oil, and craftware. Founded in 1723, the city was the capital of the princely state of Bhavnagar until 1948. Population (1991, greater city) 403,521.

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