Editing Kalaburagi (section)

{{short description|City in Karnataka, India}}
{{About|the municipality in India|its namesake district|Kalaburagi district}}
{{Redirect|Kalburgi|the scholar and writer|M. M. Kalburgi}}
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{{Use Indian English|date=January 2025}}
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{{Infobox settlement
| name                     = Kalaburagi
| official_name            = 
| other_name               = Gulbarga
| settlement_type          = City
| image_skyline            = GulbargaPlaces.png
| image_alt                = 
| image_caption            = Clockwise from top left, [[Sharana Basaveshwara Temple]], [[Buddha Vihar, Gulbarga|Buddha Vihar]], [[Bande Nawaz|Khwaja Banda Nawaz Dargah]], [[Central University of Karnataka|CUK Kalaburagi]], [[ESIC Medical College and PGIMSR, Kalaburagi]] and [[Kalaburagi Fort]]
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| map_caption                     = Kalaburagi in Karnataka
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| coordinates              = {{coord|17.329|N|76.825|E|display=inline,title}}
| subdivision_type         = Country
| subdivision_name         = {{flag|India}}
| subdivision_type1        = [[States and union territories of India|State]]
| subdivision_type2        = [[List of districts of India|District]]
| subdivision_name1        = [[Karnataka]]
| subdivision_name2        = [[Kalaburagi district|Kalaburagi]]
| established_title        = 
| established_date         = 
| founder                  = 
| named_for                = 
| government_type          = [[Municipal corporation]]
| governing_body           = 
*[[Kalaburagi Mahanagara Palike|Kalaburagi City Corporation]]
*Kalaburagi Urban Development Authority
| leader_title             = Member of Parliament
| leader_name              = [[Radhakrishna Doddamani]]
| unit_pref                = Metric
| area_footnotes           = 
| area_total_km2           = 192
| area_rank                = 
| elevation_footnotes      = 
| elevation_m              = 454
| population_total         = 533,587<ref name=C2>{{cite web | url=http://www.census2011.co.in/data/town/803207-gulbarga-karnataka.html | title=Gulbarga Population Census 2011 - 2019 | publisher=Census 2011 | access-date=4 February 2019 }}</ref>
| population_as_of         = 2011
| population_density_km2   = 8275
| population_metro         = 543,147<ref name=C2 />
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| blank_name        = {{nowrap|[[Official language]]}}
| blank_info        = [[Kannada]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://nclm.nic.in/shared/linkimages/NCLM50thReport.pdf |title=50th Report of the Commissioner for Linguistic Minorities in India (July 2012 to June 2013) |access-date=14 January 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160708012438/http://nclm.nic.in/shared/linkimages/NCLM50thReport.pdf |archive-date=8 July 2016}}</ref>
| timezone1                = [[Indian Standard Time|IST]]
| utc_offset1              = +5:30
| postal_code_type         = [[Postal Index Number|PIN]]
| postal_code              = 585101-106
| area_code_type           = [[Telephone code]]
| area_code                = 91(847)-2XXXXXX
| registration_plate       = KA-32
| website                  = {{URL|kalaburagicity.mrc.gov.in}}
| footnotes                = 
}}
'''Kalaburagi''', formerly known as '''Gulbarga''',<ref name=census>{{cite web|title=Kalaburagi|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/karnataka-belgaum-mysore-names-of-12-cities-changed-kannada/1/396366.html|website=indiatoday.intoday.in |date=17 October 2014 |access-date=2 May 2016}}</ref> is a city in the Indian state of [[Karnataka]], It is headquarters of  eponymous  [[Kalaburagi district]] and [[Kalaburagi division]], Kalaburagi city is governed by a Municipal Corporation, It is called a Sufi city. It has famous religious structures, like the Hazrath [[Bande Nawaz|Khwaja Banda Nawaz Dargah]], the [[Sharana Basaveshwara Temple]] and the [[Buddha Vihar, Gulbarga|Buddha Vihar]]. It also has a [[Kalaburagi Fort|fort]] built during the Bahmani rule, Other Bahmani monuments include the [[Haft Gumbaz]] (seven domes together) and the Shor Gumbad. Kalaburagi has the world's largest cannon,<ref>{{cite news|title=Remembering a Sufi saint|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/remembering-a-sufi-saint/article3030022.ece#!|access-date=26 September 2017|publisher=www.thehindu.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=GULBARGA CITY CORPORATION|url=http://www.gulbargacity.mrc.gov.in/|website=www.gulbargacity.mrc.gov.in/|access-date=26 September 2017|archive-date=6 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160406221704/http://www.gulbargacity.mrc.gov.in/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The Haft Gumbaz–Gulbarga|url=https://hariexploresindia.wordpress.com/2011/11/14/the-haft-gumbaz-gulbarga/|website=hariexploresindia.wordpress.com|access-date=26 September 2017|date=14 November 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Remains of a grand dream|url=http://www.deccanherald.com/content/109517/remains-grand-dream.html|access-date=26 September 2017|publisher=www.deccanherald.com/}}</ref> Kalaburagi has a few architectural marvels built during the Bahamani Kingdom rule, including the Jama Masjid in the Kalaburagi Fort. Kalaburagi houses the circuit bench of the [[Karnataka High Court|High Court of Karnataka]]. Under the name [[Monuments and Forts of the Deccan Sultanate]], Several buildings in the city and with others in the region were put by [[UNESCO]] on its "tentative list" of [[World Heritage Site]] in 2014.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/5887/|title=Monuments and Forts of the Deccan Sultanate|first=UNESCO World Heritage|last=Centre|website=UNESCO World Heritage Centre}}</ref> 

The city is ranked among top 10 Indian cities with the cleanest air and best [[Air quality index|AQI]] in 2024.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Gupta |first=Cherry |date=21 November 2024 |title=India's top 10 cities with the best air quality in 2024: Global cities' AQI insights revealed |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/trending/top-10-listing/top-10-indian-cities-with-best-air-quality-index-aqi-2024-9680798/ |work=The Indian Express |access-date=1 December 2024}}</ref>