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Belagavi
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Belgaum.
Belgaum (Kannada ISO: Beḷagāvi, IPA:; Marathi ISO: Bēḻagāṃva, IPA:), officially known as Belagavi (also Belgaon), is a city in the Indian state of Karnataka located near its northern western border in the Western Ghats. It is the administrative headquarters of the eponymous Belagavi division and Belagavi district. The Government of Karnataka has proposed making Belgaum the second capital of Karnataka alongside Bangalore, hence a second state administrative building Suvarna Vidhana Soudha was inaugurated on 11 October 2012.