Vasai
Vasai is a historical place and city located in the Palghar district; it was partitioned out of the Thane district in August 2014. It also forms a part of the Vasai-Virar twin cities in the Konkan division, Maharashtra, India, and comes under the police jurisdiction of the Mira-Bhayander, Vasai-Virar Police Commissionerate.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Suburb with 10,000 residents
- Description: Town in Maharashtra, India
- Also known as: “Baçaim” and “Bassein”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fort Vasai.
Fort Vasai
Photo: Himanshu Sarpotdar, CC BY 2.0.
Fort Vasai is a ruined fort in the town of Vasai, Konkan Division, Maharashtra, India. The structure was formally christened as the Fort of St. Sebastian in the Indo-Portuguese era.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dongri and Uttan.
Dongri
Village
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Dongri is a port city in the Mira-Bhayandar municipality of Thane district, situated just north of Gorai, Mumbai. The word 'Dungaree' has its origin in Dongri due to this genre of garment monolithically being manufactured from textile sectors within the confines of the city. Dongri is situated 6 km south of Vasai.
Uttan
Village
Photo: Kensplanet, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Uttan is a coastal town just north of Mumbai in the Thane district of Maharashtra, India. A coastal town, it falls under the jurisdiction of the Mira-Bhayandar Municipal Corporation. Uttan is situated 7 km south of Vasai.
Vasai-Virar
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Vasai-Virar, formerly Bassein or Baçaim, is a city in the North Konkan region of Maharashtra. Previously a Portuguese colony, Vasai-Virar is known for its fort and scenic coastlines.
Vasai
- Categories: town and locality
- Location: Vasai, Palghar, Maharashtra, Western India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
19.34282° or 19° 20′ 34″ northLongitude
72.80544° or 72° 48′ 20″ eastPopulation
10,000Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)Open location code
7JFJ8RV4+45OpenStreetMap ID
node 702054734OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
1253372Wikidata ID
Q1949022
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Vietnamese—“Vasai” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Vasai”
- Basque: “Baçaim”
- Basque: “Bassein”
- Basque: “Vasai”
- Bengali: “বাসাই”
- Bengali: “বেসিন”
- Bishnupriya: “ৱাসাই”
- Catalan: “Vasai-Virar”
- Chinese: “Vasai”
- Chinese: “瓦賽”
- Chinese: “瓦赛”
- Czech: “Bassein”
- Czech: “Vasai-Virár”
- Dutch: “Vasai”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فاساى”
- French: “Vasai”
- German: “Baçaim”
- Gujarati: “વસઈ”
- Hindi: “वसई”
- Indonesian: “Vasai”
- Italian: “Vasai”
- Japanese: “ヴァサイ”
- Japanese: “ヴァサイー”
- Japanese: “バサイ”
- Kannada: “ವಸಾಯಿ”
- Kashmiri: “وسایی”
- Kashmiri: “ویسی”
- Korean: “바사이”
- Malay: “Vasai”
- Marathi: “वसई”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Vasai”
- Newari: “वसाइ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vasai-Virar”
- Pampanga: “Vasai”
- Panjabi: “ਵਸਈ”
- Persian: “وسائی”
- Portuguese: “Baçaim”
- Portuguese: “Baçaím”
- Portuguese: “Bassaim”
- Portuguese: “Bassein”
- Portuguese: “Vasai Fort”
- Portuguese: “Vasai-Virar”
- Portuguese: “Vasai”
- Russian: “Васаи”
- Spanish: “Vasai”
- Swedish: “Bassein”
- Swedish: “Kopharad”
- Swedish: “Nala Sopara”
- Swedish: “Nalasopara”
- Swedish: “Navghar-Manikpur”
- Swedish: “Vasai Virar”
- Swedish: “Vasai-Virar City”
- Swedish: “Vasai-Virar”
- Swedish: “Vasai”
- Swedish: “Virar”
- Swedish: “Waliv”
- Tamil: “வசை”
- Telugu: “vవసై”
- Thai: “วสอี”
- Urdu: “وسئی”
- Urdu: “وسائی”
- Vietnamese: “Vasai”
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