• 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
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