Gandhinagar district is an administrative division of Gujarat whose headquarters are at Gandhinagar, the state capital. It has an area of 649 sq. km. and a population of 1,334,455 of which 35.02% are urban (2001 census). The district includes four taluks- Gandhinagar, Kalol, Dehgam and Mansa and 216 villages. Gandhinagar is bounded by the districts of Sabarkantha to the northeast, Kheda to the southeast, Ahmedabad to the southwest and Mehsana to the northwest. The River Sabarmati flows by the west bank of Gandhinagar, 32 km from Ahmedabad.
Akshardham Temple, Gandhinagar, Gujarat: Built in rarefied pink sandstone, Akshardham Temple spells extravagance from the very first word.
