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Table of Contents: Culture and History / Travel to Kanpur, visa requirements / Get around / Kanpur attractions and sightseeing / City tours / Business .26 Industry / Shopping, Kanpur souvenirs / Good restaurants and cheap meals / Kanpur nightlife, bars, clubs and pubs. / Hotels, youth hostels, lodging / Get out More from Uttar Pradesh: Agra tourist attractions, Allahabad travel tours, Dudhwa National Park hotels and youth hostels, Kanpur hotels and youth hostels, Kushinagar souvenirs, Lucknow tourist attractions, Varanasi culture, Vrindavan tourist attractions More from Plains India : Bihar hotels and youth hostels, Chandigarh culture, Delhi souvenirs, Haryana travel tours, Madhya Pradesh souvenirs, Punjab (India) souvenirs, Uttar Pradesh travel tours More from India: Eastern India travel tours, Himalayan North souvenirs, North-Eastern India hotels and youth hostels, Plains (India) travel tours, Southern India tourist attractions, Western India hotels and youth hostels More from South Asia: Bangladesh tourist attractions, Bhutan tourist attractions, India souvenirs, Maldives souvenirs, Nepal tourist attractions, Pakistan tourist attractions, Sri Lanka travel tours Popular destinations Istanbul (Marmara region ) souvenirs, Barcelona (Catalonia) hotels and youth hostels, Rome (Lazio) souvenirs, Singapore (Southeast Asia) culture, Western Europe (Europe) culture, South Africa (Southern Africa) tourist attractions, United Kingdom (Western Europe) culture, Europe (Home) hotels and youth hostels, Morocco (North Africa) hotels and youth hostels, Vancouver (Greater Vancouver) travel tours

Kanpur is a city in Uttar Pradesh.

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Culture and History

Kanpur a major industrial and commercial city located on the banks of the River Ganges. It has an area of over 1000 km² and had a population of around 2.7 million in the 1991 census. Kanpur is home to several educational institutions, including CSJM University, one of the Indian Institutes of Technology, Harcourt Butler Technological Institute (HBTI), University Institute of Engineering and Technology and GSVM Medical College.

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Travel to Kanpur, visa requirements

Being located on the national corridor of railways the city of Kanpur is well connected with the rest of India by rail services.

By air

You may take a flight to New Delhi/Calcutta/Bombay and then a flight to Lucknow. From Lucknow taxi takes about 2 hours to reach Kanpur. Alternatively you may take a flight to Delhi and then a train from Delhi to Kanpur.

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Get around

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Kanpur attractions and sightseeing

JK Temple

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpurwww.iitk.ac.in

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City tours

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Business & Industry

Kanpur was once called the Manchester of the East,and was famous for Textile Mills, Ordnance Factories, Leather Tanneries, due to labour unrest and government policies many large textile mills have closed down, however Kanpur is still one of the most important industrial & trade center in North India.

New industries like detergent, saddlary. food processing, pan masala, tea packaging, leather processing & goods have developed in the city.

UPSIDC has setup a Software Technology Park (STPI) which has provided a place to incubate many new software & outsourcing firms in the city.

BPO & KPO sectors are also in the offing with entrepreneurial efforts from city's technocrats. Medical Transcription, Software Development, Call Center.

Rajiv Rungta & Amit Agrawal both alumni of IIT Kanpur have promoted an Engineering Process Outsourcing (EPO) A R Digitech

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Shopping, Kanpur souvenirs

Leather Goods on Meston Raod (Bada Chauraha)

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Good restaurants and cheap meals

Kanpur is a great place for “chat” lover’s, city is planked with chat shops serving pani puri, allu tikki, dahai chat etc., famous for mouth watering sweets. For a range of multi cuisine restaurants vist The Mall & Swaroop Nagar , restaurants open to 11:00 PM. check out Aromas in Swaroop Nagar for some awesome burgers.Try the mushroom burger if you're the adventurous kind; you won't be disappointed.

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Kanpur nightlife, bars, clubs and pubs.

Tea at Motijheel X-ing

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Hotels, youth hostels, lodging

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Get out

More from Uttar Pradesh: Agra hotels and youth hostels, Allahabad souvenirs, Dudhwa National Park hotels and youth hostels, Kanpur tourist attractions, Kushinagar culture, Lucknow hotels and youth hostels, Varanasi culture, Vrindavan travel tours More from Plains India : Bihar souvenirs, Chandigarh culture, Delhi tourist attractions, Haryana culture, Madhya Pradesh culture, Punjab (India) souvenirs, Uttar Pradesh hotels and youth hostels More from India: Eastern India travel tours, Himalayan North souvenirs, North-Eastern India hotels and youth hostels, Plains (India) travel tours, Southern India travel tours, Western India hotels and youth hostels More from South Asia: Bangladesh hotels and youth hostels, Bhutan culture, India hotels and youth hostels, Maldives hotels and youth hostels, Nepal souvenirs, Pakistan hotels and youth hostels, Sri Lanka tourist attractions Popular destinations Istanbul (Marmara region ) culture, Barcelona (Catalonia) souvenirs, Rome (Lazio) hotels and youth hostels, Singapore (Southeast Asia) tourist attractions, Western Europe (Europe) tourist attractions, South Africa (Southern Africa) travel tours, United Kingdom (Western Europe) travel tours, Europe (Home) tourist attractions, Morocco (North Africa) culture, Vancouver (Greater Vancouver) tourist attractions

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