| Gangoh | |
| Settlement Type: | Town |
| Pushpin Map: | India Uttar Pradesh |
| Pushpin Label Position: | right |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Uttar Pradesh, India |
| Coordinates: | 29.7806°N 77.2625°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: |  India |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | Uttar Pradesh |
| Subdivision Type2: | District |
| Subdivision Name2: | Saharanpur |
| Governing Body: | Municipality |
| Leader Title: | Municipal Chair |
| Leader Name: | Noman Masood |
| Leader Party: | Congress |
| Unit Pref: | Metric |
| Elevation M: | 292 |
| Population Total: | 59279 |
| Population As Of: | 2011 |
| Population Density Km2: | auto |
| Demographics Type1: | Language |
| Demographics1 Title1: | Official |
| Demographics1 Info1: | Hindi[1] |
| Demographics1 Title2: | Additional official |
| Demographics1 Info2: | Urdu |
| Timezone1: | IST |
| Utc Offset1: | +5:30 |
| Postal Code Type: | PIN |
| Postal Code: | 247 341 |
| Registration Plate: | UP-11 |
Gangoh is a town and a municipal board in Saharanpur district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. It lies about 40 km south-west of Saharanpur city. Other nearby towns are Karnal, Haryana, which is about 35 km south-west of Gangoh; Yamunanagar, Haryana, about 50 km to the north-west; and Shamli, Uttar Pradesh, about 50 km to the south. The town lies about 150 km north-east of the national capital, Delhi.
Gangoh Block consists of about 173 villages and comes under the Nakur tehsil of Saharanpur district. The people of these villages mainly speak Khari boli, which is spoken in rural areas of the Upper Doab region of the Saharanpur, Shamli, Muzaffarnagar, Baghpat and Meerut districts. The soil of the block and its villages is fertile, and crops like wheat, rice, sugarcane, and mangoes are grown on a large scale every year.
Proposed Shamli Ambala six lane expressway will pass through Gangoh and it will enhance connnectivity among West UP, Haryana and Punjab.
According to Paul Whalley, the name Gaṅgoh is derived from Gaṅgu, a common vernacular variation of the name Gaṅgā (this variant is also found in other place names like Gaṅgupur or Gaṅgwā). The ending in -h, according to him, represents the genitive suffix from Old Hindi, which came from the -s ending in Prakrit.[2]
According to the 1911 British publication The Imperial Gazetteer of India:
Gangoh is listed in the Ain-i-Akbari as a pargana under Saharanpur sarkar, producing a revenue of 2,029,032 dams for the imperial treasury and supplying a force of 2000 infantry and 300 cavalry. A community of Turkomans is mentioned as living in the town at the time.[3]
India census,[4] Gangoh had a population of 59,279. Males constitute 52.83% of the population and females 47.16%. Gangoh has an average literacy rate of 63.51%, lower than the national average of 74.04%.
