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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A city of northern India north of Delhi, laid out in the 1950s by a European team of architects led by Le Corbusier. It is the capital of two states, Punjab and Haryana, and straddles their border.

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  • proper noun Union territory in northern India.
  • proper noun City located in the union territory of Chandigarh, serving simultaneously as capital of this union territory and of the states of Haryana and Punjab.

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