Top 10 Oldest Living Cities of India – Ancient Cities

India is very well known in the world as an oldest civilization. One of the oldest city in the world is Kashi or Varanasi- most importantly it is continuously inhabited up till now.
Every oldest city in India is situated on the bank of sacred rivers and famous for religious or spiritual activities. I have put together a list of the Top 10 oldest cities in India from Ancient Time.

Kashi – Banaras – Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh

Ghats-of-Varanasi

Varanasi known as Banaras and Kashi, Is the oldest city in India, situated on the bank of holiest river of India “Ganges”. Kashi “The city of lights” is one of the most important pilgrimage destinations in India and among the best cities for education and spirituality.

Ayodhya, Uttar Pradesh

Ayodhya

Ayodhya, situated on the banks of the Sarayu river and the first of the seven most important pilgrimage sites for Hindus – Sapta Puri. India’s religious leaders Gautama Buddha and Mahavira visited and lived in the city for many years.

Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh

Ujjain-City

Ujjain is the modern name for Ujjayini, also known as Avanti is an ancient city of India, situated on the banks of holy river Kshipra. Ujjain stands glamorously among many other sacred and holy Indian cities with a Kumbh Mela destination and Mahakaleshwar Jyotirlinga temple.

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Madurai, Tamil Nadu

Madurai

Madurai is the second largest city of Tamil Nadu and one of the oldest cities in India. The Temple City is famous for Meenakshi Temple, Koodal Azhagar Temple.
The temple complex houses 14 gopurams (gateway towers), tallest Vimana and one of the most prominent landmarks of the city.

Patna, Bihar

Mahavir-Mandir-Patna

Pataliputra – Patna is one of the oldest continuously inhabited places in the world, known as known as Pataliputra during ancient time and was the capital of the Magadha Empire.

The modern city Patna is situated on the bank of river Ganges and near by cities like Vaishali, Rajgir, Nalanda and Bodhgaya are also known to be the oldest and ancient cities of India.

Dwarka, Gujarat

Dwarka

Dwarka has the Dwarkadhish Temple dedicated to Krishna, one of the seven most ancient religious cities (Sapta Puri) in India. Dwarka has several notable temples, including Rukmini Devi Temple, Gomti Ghat, and Bet Dwarka.

Pushkar, Rajasthan

Pushkar-City

Pushkar is smallest but one of the oldest city in India, lies on the Shore of Pushkar Lake. City of Pushkar is famous as religious center and also known for oldest Brahma Temple and annual Camel Fair, India’s most popular Mela.

Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu

Brihadeshwara-Temple-Thanjavur

Thanjavur is an important center of southern Indian religion, art, and architecture and was built by the Chola emperor. The Great Living Chola Temples is a UNESCO World Heritage Site designation for a group of Chola dynasty era Hindu temples.

Hampi, Karnataka

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Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu

Kanchi

Kanchipuram is city’s historical monuments include the Kailasanathar Temple and the Vaikunta Perumal Temple. Kanchipuram is one of the seven Tirtha (pilgrimage) sites, for spiritual release.

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Manisha
13 years ago

You forgot to include delhi. Though modern Delhi was established in 736 CE by the Tomara king Anangpal Tomar-I who re-established the Pandava ancestral capital Indraprastha, however Indraprastha which is none other than delhi itself dates many thousands years back, since the reign of pandavas. Much older than patliputra and ujjain. Only two cities apart from delhi which we find traces of in our puranas are Varanasi and Ayodhya.

Jitu Mishra
Jitu Mishra
13 years ago

Bhubaneswar is also one of the oldest cities of India going back to the time of Mauryas. It s the the only city in India preserving archaeological remains of the entire 2,500 years of its history

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rocky
12 years ago

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jasbinder
jasbinder
12 years ago

How old are these cities any historical evidence ?

Nathan
Nathan
11 years ago

I am of the opinion that Madurai is the oldest city in India. It is even older than Varanasi. The sangams held in Madurai began at a time when visitors from other planets were commonplace on earth, and there are records that show that these beings, who were highly intelligent, participated in these sangams. Only God knows how long ago this was, but it must have been incredibly long ago.

Delhiite
Delhiite
11 years ago

Delhi- one of world’s oldest surviving Capitals and at least 5000 years old according to our Puraans and Mahabharat falls in the same bracket as any other Ancient North Indian city of the Mahaajanpad era. The best thing about Delhi it has almost always remained a federal territory since inception, and certainly so since reinstatement by Tomar Raajpoots.
I hope you’ll consider Delhi too for your list!

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Bijaya Jena
11 years ago

Bhubaneswar,Capital of Odisha existed in 500 BC where the battle of Kaling was fought.But the name was different.The recent Roman coins found near Konarak also dates back to 500 BC from where the traders sailed to Bali,Java,Sumatra,Cambodia.The village is called Pipili now. But it is mentioned in the Ancient Indian Maritime History.

uttam kumar
uttam kumar
10 years ago

i think varanasi and patliputra is oldest

SubhraKanti Roy
SubhraKanti Roy
10 years ago

Varanasi & Madurai both are very old city no doubt about that.If someone said that as Delhi is mentioned in Mahabharata so it is older than others,then Ayodhha is mentioned in Ramayana so this should be older than Delhi by 2000 years.I have studied in Russian book on such things & it is mentioned there that Pataliputra is the oldest place of civilization in India.

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Shiva
8 years ago

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