Balakot
Balakot is a town in Mansehra district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The town was significantly damaged during the 2005 Kashmir earthquake but was later rebuilt with the assistance of the Government of Pakistan.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: I Owais Ali, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town
- Description: town in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
- Also known as: “Bala Kot”
Balakot
- Category: locality
- Location: Mansehra District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
34.55067° or 34° 33′ 2″ northLongitude
73.35257° or 73° 21′ 9″ eastElevation
1,057 metres (3,468 feet)Open location code
8J6MH923+72OpenStreetMap ID
node 582988362OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Balakot” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بالاكوت”
- Asturian: “Balakot”
- Bengali: “বালাকোট”
- Chinese: “巴拉科特”
- Dutch: “Balakot”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بالاكوت”
- French: “Balakot”
- German: “Balakot”
- Hebrew: “באלאקוט”
- Hebrew: “בלקוט”
- Hindi: “बालकोट”
- Hindi: “बालाकोट”
- Marathi: “बालाकोट”
- Newari: “बालाकोत”
- Panjabi: “ਬਾਲਾਕੋਟ”
- Persian: “بالاکوت”
- Russian: “Балакот”
- Sindhi: “بالاڪوٽ”
- Tamil: “பாலகோட்”
- Tamil: “பாலாகோட்”
- Ukrainian: “Балакот”
- Urdu: “بالا کوٹ”
- Urdu: “بالاکوٹ”
- Western Panjabi: “بالاکوٹ”
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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 “Balakot”. Photo: I Owais Ali, CC BY-SA 4.0.