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"Dhanbad" is the second most populous city in the Indian state of Jharkhand. Dhanbad ranks List of cities in India by population largest city in India and ranks 42nd largest million-plus urban agglomeration in India. It has been ranked 94th among 111 cities for Ease of Living Index and is 96th fastest growing urban area of world by City Mayors Foundation. Dhanbad shares its land borders with Paschim Bardhaman district, West Bengal. Dhanbad is also called Coal Capital of India for housing one of the largest coal mines of India. The prestigious institute, Indian Institute of Technology (ISM), Dhanbad (now IIT Dhanbad) is also situated in Dhanbad.

Dhanbad is 56th cleanest city of India according to Swachh Survekshan 2019. It showed a great change in terms of cleanliness which was considered as least cleanest in Swachh Survekshan 2018 snd Dhanbad Municipal Corp. also worked for increasing more green cover in city. Among the rail divisions of Indian Railway, Dhanbad Rail Division is the second-largest in revenue generation after the Mumbai division.

Dhanbad ranked as top city in India with the highest 4G availability in India by a survey of OpenSignal.

The present district used to be a part of, Manbhum region and was occupied by Mundari

Kolarian races in the wilderness of South undivided Bihar. In the seventh century A.D. some information is available from the account of the travels of Hieun Tsang. These accounts narrate existence of a powerful kingdom which comprised the district and adjoining areas, ruled by Sasanka.

Manbhum was one of the districts of the East India during the British Raj. The region has thick forests, with rich mineral resources, and had a mixed demographic profile with people from different religious and social groups, including adivasis, particularly the Santals and the Munda people before the city was established.

In the Settlement Report for Manbhum (1928) it was stated that no rock inscriptions, copper plates

old coins were discovered and not a single document of copper plate

palm leaf was found, during the Survey and Settlement operations. The oldest authentic documents produced were all on paper and barely even a hundred years old.

Dhanbad city was in Manbhum district from 1928 up to 1956.

In 21st Century discovery of rich deposits of coal in the region caused the city to flourish with wealth but also bought notorious coal-mafia and gang wars

Dhanbad has an average elevation of . Its geographical length (extending from north to south) is and the breadth (stretching across east to West) is . It shares its boundaries with West Bengal in the eastern and southern part, Dumka and Giridih in the North and Bokaro District in the west. Dhanbad comes under the Chota Nagpur Plateau.

Dhanbad features climate that is transitional between a humid subtropical climate and a tropical wet and dry climate. Summer starts from last week of March and ends in mid-June. Peak temperature in summer can reach 48 °C. Dhanbad also receives heavy rainfall. In winter, the minimum temperature remains around 10 °C with a maximum of 22 °C.Damodar River is the main river flowing through the district. Katri, Jamunia, Gobai, Khudia and Irji are the other rivers flowing through the district.

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Religions Dhanbad City (2011) with a total production of 27.5 million tonnes and an annual income of 7000 million rupees through coal business. There are a number of coal washeries present there. Bharat Coking Coal have it's headquarter in Dhanbad and Steel Authority of India, Tata Steel and Eastern Coalfields (at Mugma) also operates their mines. Om Besco Rail Products.Ltd, a public limited rail wagon manufacturing company at Mugma, SAIL Refractory Unit(SRU) (now SAIL Refactory Unit) at Bhandaridah, Damodar Valley Corporation, Hindusthan Malleables & Forgings Limited,etc. are also operating in city. Fertilizer Corporation of India (closed), Projects and Development India Limited and ACC (company) at Sindri are also available and being one of the 5 divisions of South Eastern Railway zone, Indian Railways is also a big employer in Dhanbad. Also, Kandra Industrial Area at Gobindpur houses some small scale industries.

, Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad, was established by the British in 1926., Birsa Institute of Technology Sindri is one of the oldest govt. engineering college in India., SSLNT Women's College is one of the oldest women's science and art college in east India established in 1956.,K. K. College of Engineering and Management, Gobindpur,Patliputra Medical College and Hospital, established in 1971,, Law College Dhanbad was established in 1976., Guru Nanak College, Dhanbad, Raja Shiva Prasad College, established in 1949 by Raja of Jharia,R.S. More College, established in 1959.,P. K. Roy Memorial College, established in 1977.,Al Iqra Teacher's Training College, Gobindpur,B.S.S Mahila College,Bholaram Shibal Kharkia College, Maithon, Maithon,Binod Bihari Mahto Koylanchal University, a public university established in 2017.

, Carmel School Digwadih, DAV Public School, Koyla Nagar, DAV Public School, Mahuda , Delhi Public School, Dhanbad, De Nobili School, CMRI, De Nobili School, Bhuli, De Nobili School, FRI, Kendriya Vidyalaya , Tata D.A.V School, Jamadoba

Jharkhand chief minister Raghubar Das announced the setting up of a university in Dhanbad named after Binod Bihari Mahto. The new university is also expected to serve the higher education needs of students of Bokaro and Giridih. Vinoba Bhave University (VBU) has zeroed in on vacant land inside the premises of RS More College in Govindpur, Dhanbad, for setting up of the proposed Vinod Bihari Mahto Koylanchal University.

Dhanbad city and district is considered a BJP stronghold with majority of its MPs MLA's being of the party since the 1990s. Chandra Shekhar Agrawal of BJP is the mayor, otherwise known as the first citizen, of Dhanbad Municipal Corporation. He won by the margin of 42,525 votes.

Raj Sinha of Bharatiya Janata Party won in the 40-Dhanbad assembly constituency defeating Mannan Malick of Indian National Congress in 2014. Pashupati Nath Singh of BJP defeated Mannan Mallik of Congress in 2005, Prasadi Sao of Rashtriya Janata Dal in 2000, and Ramadhar Yadav of Janata Dal in 1995. Surendra Prasad Roy of Congress defeated S.K. Shriva of JD in 1990 and Ram Chander Singh of Janata Party in 1985. Yogeshwar Prasad Yogesh of Congress defeated Gopi Kant Bakshi of Communist Party of India (Marxist) in 1980 and Kalawati Devi of Janata Party.

Dhanbad assembly constituency is part of Dhanbad (Lok Sabha constituency).

Dhanbad has a very good rail connectivity with the other major parts of the country such as Delhi, Mumbai, Patna, Kolkata, Bhagalpur, Munger, Gaya (India), Chennai, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, Kochi, Indore, Bhopal, Gwalior, Jabalpur, Jaipur, Visakhapatnam Jodhpur, Nagpur, Pune, Varanasi, Guwahati etc. in Dhanbad yard Dhanbad Rail Division comes under East Central Railway zone. Grand Chord rail-line passes through Dhanbad junction, it connects Howrah and New Delhi. CIC rail line starts from Dhanbad and ends at Singrauli in Madhya Pradesh. There is one more rail line passing through the district, it starts at Kharagpur and ends at Gomoh, this rail line comes under South Eastern Railway (India). Dhanbad is connected with almost all states through rail network. Each and every train through this has a stop at Dhanbad. Now, even Sealdah and Howrah Duronto have their stoppage at Dhanbad.

On 1 October 2011, India's first Air conditioner double-decker train was flagged off to connect Howrah and Dhanbad. With this India joins the league of Europe and North America that run multi-deck trains. As of October 2011, the train runs daily except Sunday, departing from Howrah at 8:30 am to arrive at Dhanbad at 12:45 pm, and on return trip it departs Dhanbad at 6:30 pm to arrive at Howrah at 10:40 pm. It has a maximum permissible speed of /hr with stops at Bardhaman, Durgapur, Asansol, Barakar and Kumardhubi on both legs of the route. This new AC design has several features namely stainless steel body, high-speed Eurofima design bogies with air springs and other safety-features.

National Highway 2 and National Highway 32 are the major highways passing through Dhanbad. NH 19 is part of Golden Quadrilateral highway network; Dhanbad lies in Kolkata-Delhi link of the Golden Quadrilateral network. NH19 is being converted into six lane expressway; NH 18 connects Dhanbad to Bokaro district-Jamshedpur. was organised. Cricket Stadiums at present are at Tata Steel Stadium Digwadih, Nehru Stadium Jealgora and Railway Stadium where Ranji Trophy matches are organised. Women's International Cricket were also played at Railway Stadium, Dhanbad. Association football matches of national level were played at Railway Stadium, Dhanbad but now it is converted into Cricket Stadium by the Railway management and Sijua Stadium.

For the preparation of Mission Olympic 2020 and 2024, the Dhanbad District Olympic Games Association is working day and night.

Dhanbad officially became the second town in the state to boast a cricket stadium with floodlights, with the inauguration of floodlights at Tata Digwadih Stadium.

Hindi newspapers are mainly published from the city, among them ''Hindustan Dainik'' is the most popular, followed by ''Prabhat Khabar'', ''Dainik Jagran'' and ''Dainik Bhaskar''. "Dhanbad Bokaro Live" is published from Dhanbad.

Doordarshan relay station is present in Dhanbad near Koyla Nagar. There are some local news channels in the city such as, ''Antarkatha'' which are creative media houses which broadcast on local cable on Dhanbad, Jharia, Bokaro, Chatra, Hazaribag, Kodrma, Ramgarh etc.

FM radio is available as Vividh Bharti Service of All India Radio at 101.8 MHz.

The Damodar River is a major river of the Chota Nagpur Plateau. It rises in Palamu and flows eastward between the plateaus of Ranchi and Hazaribag. It is joined by the Bokaro, the Konar and the Barakar rivers. The Damodar enters Dhanbad district at its confluence with the Jamuria, a stream which marks the western boundary of Dhanbad with Hazaribagh District. Further east, the Damodar is joined by the Katri River which rises in the foothills below Parasnath and traverses through the Coal-field Area.

The Barakar, which forms the northern boundary of the district, traverses about 77 km. In the district. It flows in south westerly direction up to Durgapur and then south till it joins the Damodar near Chirkuda.

, Meiyang Chang, Bollywood actor, Anurag Dikshit - born in Dhanbad, ranked 207th-richest person in the world by ''Forbes'' in 2006, Zeishan Quadri, Bollywood actor, film maker, Shiv Khera, author and professional speaker, Meenakshi Seshadri, Bollywood actress, Deven Sharma, former global president of Standard & Poor's, Randhir Prasad Verma, Indian police officer