Dobhi
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Dobhi is a town in Gaya district
Gaya District
Gaya is one of the thirty-eight districts of Bihar state, India. The district is having a common boundary with the Jharkhand state in the south. Gaya city is its largest city and the district headquarters.-History:...

 in the India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

n state
States and territories of India
India is a federal union of states comprising twenty-eight states and seven union territories. The states and territories are further subdivided into districts and so on.-List of states and territories:...

 of Bihar
Bihar
Bihar is a state in eastern India. It is the 12th largest state in terms of geographical size at and 3rd largest by population. Almost 58% of Biharis are below the age of 25, which is the highest proportion in India....

.

Geography

Dobhi is located at 24.53°N 84.91°E. It has an average elevation of 67 metres (219.8 ft).

Transport

Dobhi is on NH 2
National Highway 2 (India)
National Highway 2 , commonly referred as Delhi-Kolkata Road is a busy Indian National Highway that runs through the states of Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, and West Bengal. It constitute a major portion of historical Grand Trunk Road along with NH 91 and NH 1 in India...

 (Grand Trunk Road
Grand Trunk Road
The Grand Trunk Road also formerly known as Uttarapatha, Shah Rah-e-Azam or Sadak-e-Azam or Badshahi Sadak is one of South Asia's oldest and longest major roads...

). It is also the junction point for NH 83
National Highway 83 (India)
National Highway 83 is a National Highway in India entirely within the state of Bihar. NH 83 links state capital, Patna to Dobhi on NH 2 and passes through Jehanabad, Gaya and Bodhgaya. The total length of NH 83 runs to .- See also :...

, which connects to Bodh Gaya, 22 kilometres (13.7 mi), Gaya
Gaya, India
Gaya is the second largest city of Bihar, India, and it is also the headquarters of Gaya District.Gaya is 100 kilometers south of Patna, the capital city of Bihar. Situated on the banks of Falgu River , it is a place sanctified by both the Hindu and the Buddhist religions...

 and Patna
Patna
Paṭnā , is the capital of the Indian state of Bihar and the second largest city in Eastern India . Patna is one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in the world...

, 130 kilometres (80.8 mi), and also NH 99
National Highway 99 (India)
National Highway 99 is a National Highway in India within the states of Bihar and Jharkhand. NH-99 links Dobhi in Bihar and Chandwa in Jharkhand. It ends at the junction of NH 75 at Chandwa...

, which connects to Chatra
Chatra
Chatra is a genus of Moth in the family Lasiocampidae....

 and Chandwa
Chandwa
Chandwa, is a community development block in Latehar district, in Indian state of Jharkhand. It is located around 75 km from Ranchi, the state capital. It is surrounded by picturesque scenery and is well known for abundance of bauxite and coal mines. It is mineral rich like most of Jharkhand...

 in Jharkhand
Jharkhand
Jharkhand is a state in eastern India. It was carved out of the southern part of Bihar on 15 November 2000. Jharkhand shares its border with the states of Bihar to the north, Uttar Pradesh and Chhattisgarh to the west, Orissa to the south, and West Bengal to the east...

. Sherghati
Sherghati
Sherghati is a subdivision-level town of the Gaya district in Bihar, India. The Morhar River surrounds it; that is why the length of the city is much more than the width....

 is 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) to the west and Barhi is to the east on NH 2.
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