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Bharuch is today is a large seaport city of more than a million inhabitants and a municipality in the Baruch district. Bharuch was once just a small village on the banks of the Narmada river. but that rivers inland access to central and northern India and with a location in the sheltered Gulf of Khambat in the era of coastal sea travel grew and prospered as a trading transshipment center and ship building port. Modern Bharuch is one of the most heavily industrialized areas not only in Gujarat but in India as a whole with many large chemical plants. There is big banyan (vad) tree on an island of the Narmada river near Bharuch which is known as Kabirvad.
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