Nagpur

[ nahg-poor ]

noun

1. a city in NE Maharashtra, in central India: former capital of the Central Provinces and Berar.

Nagpur

/ næɡˈpʊə /

noun

1. a city in central India, in NE Maharashtra state: became capital of the kingdom of Nagpur (1743); capital of the Central Provinces (later Madhya Pradesh) from 1861 to 1956. Pop: 2 051 320 (2001)

Example Sentences

New Zealand's previous Test victories in India came in 1969 at Nagpur and at Mumbai in 1988.

From BBC

He made his Test debut against India in Nagpur in 2012 and since then has hit 34 Test centuries, with a top score of 254 against Pakistan.

From BBC

But when Lawson was a young Methodist minister in 1953, he was thrilled when the church sent him to the central Indian city of Nagpur, where he worked in ministry, coached soccer, basketball and track, and studied Gandhian strategies for peaceful resistance, Lal said.

From Los Angeles Times

On Tuesday, the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court acquitted Mr Saibaba and others and set aside their life sentences.

From BBC

Dongre, who lives in Nagpur in central India, has seen the struggles in his own family and among people he’s met as a leader in the National Alliance of Sickle Cell Organizations in India.

From Seattle Times