Varanasi, also called Benares, southeastern Uttar Pradesh state, northern India. It is located on the left bank of the Ganges River and is one of the seven sacred cities of Hinduism. By the 2nd millennium BCE it had become a religious, commercial, and industrial center. More @Wikipedia
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