Ambala district

Ambala district is one of the 22 districts of Haryana State of India. District Ambala lies on the North-Eastern edge of Haryana and shares their borders with other districts Kurukshetra, Yamunanagar, Panchkula of Haryana State & Patiala, SAS Nagar of Punjab State and Sirmaur of Himachal Pradesh State. Ambala district is a part of Ambala Division which is the division of Ambala, Kurukshetra, Yamunanagar and Panchkula. Ambala has four sub divisions are Ambala City, Ambala Cantt, Barara and Naraingarh which contains four tehsils are Ambala or Ambala City, Ambala Cantt, Barara and Naraingarh they further contains three sub tehsils Shahzadpur, Mullana, Saha. Ambala town serving as the administrative headquarters of the district. Ambala town has two sub-areas: Ambala Cantonment and Ambala City, eight kilometres apart, therefore it is also known as "Twin City". It has a large Indian Army and Indian Air Force presence within its cantonment area. It is located 200 km to the north of New Delhi, India's capital and 45 km to the south of Chandigarh, Haryana's capital.