A Twin Town Near Prayagraj-Mohammadpur Umri
Mohammadpur Umri is a small village close to the Indian Air Force base of Bamrauli, near Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh, India. Indian villages are famous for their picturesque sceneries, stunning landscapes, historical monuments, and peaceful life. But among these beautiful villages scattered all over India, there is one village named ‘Mohammadpur Umri’, which is quite different from all the other places in the world and known as “The Twin Capital of the World. The village has the highest number of twins compared to anywhere in the world. The village, Mohammadpur Umri, is located near Allahabad at the confluence of the sacred Ganges and Yamuna Rivers. Of the 300 households, there are 54 pairs of twins. In India, there is a 1 chance in 80 for a mother to deliver twins and 1 in 300 for delivering identical twins. In Umri, however, one in ten deliveries results in identical twins. The village boasts a twin monozygotic or identical twin birth rate that is 300 times the national average and perhaps the highest in the world. It is sometimes labelled as the twin capital of the world due to a large number of twin people present.
History of twins in Umari Village
A man named Mohammad Nasir Ali was the founder of the Mohammadpur Umri village and hence, the name ‘Mohammadpur’ was given after him. Mohammadpur Umri covers an area of 80000 km, and the population is around 900. Around 95% of the population is Muslim in the village. The most interesting fact about this village is that it comprises a large number of a set of twins in the village. It is said that the very first pair of twins were born around 1947. Moreover, Mohammadpur Umri has a couple of twins in every 5th house. While some families in the village are untouched by this wonder. Even some families have multiple sets of twins in their families. Another weird fact about this village is that it does not only happen with the humans but with animals and the creatures of this village are twins. It happens with the animals like cows and buffaloes, and even hens lay eggs with twin yolks. Mohammadpur Umri is a land of wonders, but no one exactly knows the reasons behind it.
The small village of Mohammadpur Umri is often compared to Kodinhi village in Kerala, which is quite famous. Kodinhi shares the wonder of twins with Umri with around 250 sets of twins amongst 2000 families. However, Umri is a village of poor and landless farmers with numerous troubles, and Kodinhi prospered with wealthy families and farmers.
The Mohammadpur Umri village itself is vibrant as the atmosphere is incorporated into it. It is the most inherently unique place in the world without any explanations behind its wonder of twins. There are no fixed answers about how only a particular small region is responsible for so many twins. This can be a new way to know more about science and humans. This unexplained village can fill anyone with vigorous feelings about how less we know about nature, science, or whatever you wish to name this miracle.
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Reason for the presence of twins
Scientists, doctors, and villagers have differing opinions about why there are an unusually high number of twins concentrated in this area. The phenomenon started about 40 years ago at around the same time that an Air Force Base was set up near the village. Some believe the station’s experimentation machinery causes the twinning. Some researchers believe that the soil and water minerals of this place are affecting the twin birth. Some people in the village consider this wonder as God’s gift to the villagers. Several national and international researchers have visited this place to understand the reason behind this miracle. scientists claimed that this village can add a new theory to ‘Genetic Science’. A team of scientists from the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, visited Umri village, but they could never obtain their research for some unidentified reasons.
Double the trouble
A significant number of indistinguishable twins in the town clearly gives the residents a great deal to share about the mistakes that occur regularly. From a similar kid being taken care of twice to an inappropriate individual being hit for another’s mix-up. The tales get more interesting from one house to the next. All the visitors who travel here regularly, wonder to see the place. Seeing twins anywhere else wouldn’t have been much of a thing on your to-do list, but seeing a village filled with identical twins and listed in the World Records will be quite an experience. If you are visiting the city of Allahabad, then a short visit to this place is worth the experience.
