Ujjain vs Kuala Lurah

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Ujjain ( (listen)) is a city in Ujjain district of the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. It is the fifth largest city in Madhya Pradesh by population and is the administrative centre of Ujjain district and Ujjain division. It is a famous Hindu pilgrimage centre with the Kumbh Mela held here every 12 years. The famous temple of Mahakaleshwar Jyotirlinga is also located in the center of the city. An ancient city situated on the eastern bank of the Kshipra River, Ujjain was the most prominent city on the Malwa plateau of central India for much of its history. It emerged as the political centre of central India around 600 BCE. It was the capital of the ancient Avanti kingdom, one of the sixteen mahajanapadas. It remained an important political, commercial and cultural centre of central India until the early 19th century, when the British administrators decided to develop Indore as an alternative to it.

Ujjain continues to be an important place of pilgrimage for Shaivites, Vaishnavites and followers of Shakta.Ujjain is one among the five places in India where Jantar Mantar is located. Ujjain is also known as Greenwich of India or navel of earth because it is located where tropic of cancer and zero meridian of longitude intersects.Even today for astronomic calculations ujjain's time (29 min behind IST) is considered best. Ujjain has been selected as one of the hundred Indian cities to be developed as a smart city under PM Narendra Modi's flagship Smart Cities Mission.

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Kampong Kuala Lurah is a village in Pengkalan Batu, a mukim in Brunei-Muara District, Brunei, situated on the Brunei-Malaysia border. The postcode for Kampong Kuala Lurah is BH1923. It is one of the two vehicular immigration points to the main part of Brunei (the other Kampong Sungai Tujoh in Belait District).

The checkpoint on the Malaysian side of the border is the Tedungan Immigration, Customs and Quarantine Checkpoint in Tedungan, a village in Limbang District in Sarawak, Malaysia.

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