Dehli
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- metropolis
- biggest city in India (concerning space)
- New-Delhi is a southern part of Delhi (domicile of the government / courts)
- 11 million people live here (agglomeration: 16.3 million people)
India Gate (New-Delhi)
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Reference to the novel: Colonel Taylor meets here the secret man (novel, Chapter 50,000 Rupees: How to speak Australian)
- Triumphal arch
- 42 meters high
- built in 1921 (following the example set by the "Arc de Triomphe", Paris)
- monument for the soldiers (first world war, Indian and Britain soldiers, war in Afghanistan and Bangladesh-war)
- names are engraved
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