Kot Diji
Kot Diji is an ancient site which was part of the Indus Valley Civilization, estimated to have been occupied around 3300 BCE. Located about 45 km south of Khairpur in the modern-day province of Sindh, Pakistan, it is on the east bank of the Indus River opposite Mohenjo-daro.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Arsalanrkazi, Public domain.
- Type: Village with 25,600 residents
- Description: archeological site that predates the Indus Civilization
- Also known as: “Diji”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kot Diji Fort.
Kot Diji Fort
Building
Photo: Smn121, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Kot Diji Fort, formally known as Fort Ahmadabad, is an 18th-century Talpur-era citadel located in the town of Kot Diji in Khairpur District, Pakistan, about 25 miles east of the Indus River at the edge of the Thar Desert.
Kot Diji
- Categories: human settlement, archaeological site, and locality
- Location: Khairpur District, Sindh, Pakistan, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
27.34309° or 27° 20′ 35″ northLongitude
68.70936° or 68° 42′ 34″ eastPopulation
25,600Elevation
57 metres (187 feet)Open location code
7JVC8PV5+6POpenStreetMap ID
node 10067989689OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
1173302Wikidata ID
Q1017084
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Kot Diji” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kot Diji”
- Breton: “Kot Diji”
- Catalan: “Kot Diji”
- Cebuano: “Kot Diji”
- Chinese: “果德迪吉”
- Corsican: “Kot Diji”
- Croatian: “Kot Diji”
- Czech: “Kót Dídží”
- Danish: “Kot Diji”
- Dutch: “Kot Diji”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كوت ديجى”
- Estonian: “Kot Diji”
- Finnish: “Kot Diji”
- French: “Kot Diji”
- Galician: “Kot Diji”
- German: “Kot Diji”
- Greek: “Κοτ Ντιτζί”
- Hebrew: “קוט דיג’י”
- Hungarian: “Kot Diji”
- Indonesian: “Kot Diji”
- Irish: “Kot Diji”
- Italian: “Kot Diji”
- Japanese: “コト・ディジ”
- Latvian: “Kot Diji”
- Lithuanian: “Kot Diji”
- Luxembourgish: “Kot Diji”
- Malayalam: “കോട്ട് ഡിജി”
- Narom: “Kot Diji”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kot Diji”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Kot Diji”
- Panjabi: “ਕੋਟ ਡੀਜੀ”
- Persian: “کوت دیجی”
- Polish: “Kot Diji”
- Portuguese: “Kot Diji”
- Romanian: “Kot Diji”
- Russian: “Кот-Диджи”
- Sindhi: “ڪوٽ ڏيجي”
- Slovak: “Kot Diji”
- Slovenian: “Kot Diji”
- Spanish: “Kot Diji”
- Swedish: “Kot Diji”
- Tahitian: “Kot Diji”
- Tamil: “கோட் திஜி”
- Turkish: “Kot Diji”
- Urdu: “kot diji fort”
- Urdu: “کوٹ ڈیجی”
- Welsh: “Kot Diji”
- Western Panjabi: “کوٹ ڈجی”
- Western Panjabi: “کوٹ ڈیجی”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Pir Bakhsh Bugti and Fazal Hussain Lashari.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Jamia Masjid and Jageer E Ali Akbar a.s.
Sindh: Must-Visit Destinations
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Kot Diji”. Photo: Arsalanrkazi, Public domain.