Near which one of the following cities are Palitana Temples located?

The Palitana temples form a large Jain temple complex on Shatrunjaya hill adjacent to the town of Palitana in Bhavnagar district, Gujarat; thus the nearest major city is Bhavnagar [1]. Palitana town serves as the pilgrimage base for the hill-shrine and lies roughly 51 km southwest of Bhavnagar, servicing the thousands of devotees who climb the hill’s temples. The Shatrunjaya hill complex is one of Saurashtra’s notable sacred hill sites, long venerated in Jain tradition and containing hundreds of shrines concentrated above the town [2]. Given this geographic and cultural context, Bhavnagar (option 1) is the correct choice.

Sources

1. [1] https://bhavnagar.nic.in/tourist-place/palitana-temple/
2. [2] Exploring Society:India and Beyond ,Social Science-Class VII . NCERT(Revised ed 2025) > Chapter 8: How the Land Becomes Sacred > LET'S EXPLORE > p. 171