Wahabpora
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| Coordinates: 34°03′25″N 74°39′36″E / 34.057°N 74.660°ECoordinates: 34°03′25″N 74°39′36″E / 34.057°N 74.660°E | |
| Country | India |
| State | Jammu and Kashmir |
| District | Budgam |
| Elevation | 1,610 m (5,280 ft) |
| Population (2014) | 18,000 |
| Languages | |
| • Spoken | Kashmiri |
| • Official | English, Urdu, Hindi, Persian and Arabic |
| Time zone | IST (UTC+5:30) |
| PIN | 191111 |
| Website | wahabpora |
Wahabpora ( Urduوہاب پورہ, Kashmiriواہ پور) is a village in Budgam district, Jammu and Kashmir, India, situated at the bank of Aihaji River (Bada Ara/Gam kuel). Wahabpora is about 10 km away from the district headquarters Budgam and 21 km from Srinagar the summer capital city of Jammu and Kashmir. It is towards North located at 34°03′25″N 74°39′36″E / 34.057°N 74.660°E. The village Wahabpora consists of about six mohallahs those are as Mosviabad (Peer Mohallah), Taingapora, Watipora, Ganaiepora, New Colony and Chinar colony.
It is necessary to describe that Chinar colony was a part of Mosviabad and Al-Mehdi Chowk is the famous region of Mosviabad. Chinar colony is the colony which is the central part of the village where are five big chinars about the age five hundred years old. The brother in law of Mughal King Jahangir and that time Governor of Kashmir Asif Khan had planted these five chinars. Chinar garden of Wahabpora is also known as Asif Ali Bagh. Gariend Kallan is the neighbouring village to Wahabpora.
The population of Wahabpora is about 18,000 in which 10,000 are males and 8000 females having sex ratio 800. The area of the village is about 6 km2 which is the total area of the village captured by residential land, deep wet land (Nambal / daldal), Agricultural land and dry high land (Wuder) etc. It has an average elevation of 1610 meters (5280 feet).This village consists of many sects of Islam like as Shias, Sunnis and Noorbakshia. Literacy rate of this village is 91.90%.
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