Vegetarian city in the world
- Situated in the Bhavnagar district of the Indian state of Gujarat, the city of Palitana has emerged as the first city in the world to declare non-vegetarian food as illegal.
- The city is a famous pilgrimage site for Jains.
- located around Shatrunjaya Hills, is also known as the Jain Temple Town.
- There are more than 800 temples in the city, the most famous among them is Adinath Temple.
- The orders for regulating the selling of non veg is live in Rajkot, Vadodara, Jungadh, Ahmedabad in the same state.
- In the state's population,
- Hindus constitute 88.5 per cent and
- Jains are about one per cent, and
- Muslims and Christians make up 10 per cent of the population. Wion