GEOGRAPHY

The present district of Gorakhpur, 265 Kms east of capital Lucknow, on National Highway -28 lies between Latitude 26° 46´ N and Longitude 83° 22´ E, covers the geographical area of 3483.8 Sq. km. It is bounded by districts Mahrajganj in the north, Ambedkar Nagar, Azamgarh and Mau in the south, Kushinagar and Deoria in the east and Sant Kabirnagar in the west.

Gorakhpur is an important centre of Eastern U.P. It is the headquarter of North-Eastern Railway.

Air Force Station, and the main terminus for Kushinagar, Kapilvastu and Nepal.

City	Distance	City	Distance
Lucknow	270	Patna	260
Varanasi	232	Guwahati	1256
Mumbai	1696	Cochin	2833
Agra	546	Ahmedabad	1738
Howrah	870	Nepal Border	90
Jammu	1260	Bangalore	2082

Rail : Gorakhpur is well connected with all major cities of India. It has computer- reservation facility. Details of Important trains connecting Gorakhpur is given below :

Train No.	Name of Train	From	To
	Buddha Parikrama Express	Kalka	Kolkatta
2554	Vaishali Express	N.Delhi	Barauni
4674	Shaheed Express	Amritsar	Darbhanga
5208	Amrapali Express	Amritsar	Barauni
5087	Amarnath Express	Gorakhpur	Jammu Tawi
5651	Lohit Exp.	Guwahati	Jammu Tawi
5047	Purvanchal Exp.	Gorakhpur	Howrah
3020	Bagh Express	Kathgodam	Howrah
5012	Rapti Sagar Express	Gorakhpur	Cochin
5092	Gkp. Bangalore Exp.	Gorakhpur	Bangalore
5090	Gkp.-Secunderabad Exp.	Gorakhpur	Secunderabad
1016	Kushinagar Exp.	Gorakhpur	Kurla(Mumbai)
5046	Gkp.-Ahmedabad Exp.	Gorakhpur	Ahmedabad
9166	Sabarmati Express	Muzaffarpur	Ahmedabad

Roadways : Frequent road-transport is available for all major cities of U.P. The main Bus-stand is near railway station . Buses are available since early in the morning (3.00 Am) till late night, from Gorakhpur to Sanauli. Also, frequent service is available for other routes like Varanasi, Lucknow, Kanpur, Delhi etc. Link service for taking the Sharjah plane is also available, twice a week i.e. Sunday and Wednesday at 6.00 am.

Air : Air Force Station is 8 Km. from the railway station. On 8th March, 2003 it has been inaugurated as a commercial airport. Daily flights are available from Gorakhpur to Delhi and and Calcutta via Lucknow. The timings of the flight available at present are :

Flight From	Departure Time	Flight Destination	Reaching Time
Gorakhpur	10.00 am	Kolkata	11.20 am
Gorakhpur	16.50 pm	Delhi	19.00 pm
Delhi	7.20 am	Gorakhpur	9.30 am
Kolkata	3.00 pm	Gorakhpur	4.30 pm

Another airstrip of U.P. Civil Aviation is also available in Kasia, 55 km. from Gorakhpur in Kushinagar district. Nearest other commercial Airports are Lucknow and Varanasi. For other information regarding flights please see website.