Amritsar Amritsar Amritsar (;), historically also known as "Rāmdāspur" and colloquially as "Ambarsar", is a city in north-western India which is the administrative headquarters of the Amritsar district - located in the Majha region of the Indian state of Punjab. According to the 2011 census, the population of Amritsar was 1,132,761. It is one of ten Municipal Corporations in the state and Karamjit Singh Rintu is the current mayor of the city. The city is situated northwest of state capital Chandigarh and 455 km (283 miles) northwest of New Delhi, the national capital. It is near Pakistan, with the Wagah Border
Pembina–Emerson Border Crossing station was previously upgraded in 1996; the Canada border station in 1999. Also located near this crossing is Fort Dufferin, a former Canadian police post, immigration station, and base of the North American Boundary Commission, which surveyed and marked the international border as defined in the Treaty of 1818. The number of persons crossing the border illegally into Canada in the Emerson-Pembina area has spiked in recent years, especially following President Donald Trump's "Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States" executive order in January 2017. The majority of recent border jumpers are immigrants from Somalia, Ghana,