This article is about the city. For the district see Amritsar district.Amritsar is a city in the northwestern part of India and is the administrative headquarters of Amritsar district Langar in the state of Punjab, India. The 2001 Indian census reported the population of the city to be over 1,500,000, with that of the entire district numbering 3,695,077. Amritsar is situated northwest of state capital Chandigarh and is east of Lahore, Pakistan and therefore, very close to India's western border with Pakistan.

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