Varanasi
Varanasi district is a district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, with the holy city of Varanasi as the district headquarters. It is also the headquarters of the Varanasi division which contains 4 districts.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: district of India with 3,680,000 residents
- Description: district of Uttar Pradesh, India
- Also known as: “Varanasi district” and “Vārānasi District”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kashi Vishwanath Temple and Varanasi Junction Railway Station.
Kashi Vishwanath Temple
Hindu temple
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Kashi Vishwanath Temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to Shiva. It is located in Vishwanath Gali, in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. The temple is a Hindu pilgrimage site and is one of the twelve Jyotirlinga shrines.
Varanasi Junction Railway Station
Railway station
Photo: McKay Savage, CC BY 2.0.
Varanasi Junction railway station is the main railway station serving the city of Varanasi. The other key railway stations in the Varanasi Metro area are Banaras, Varanasi City, Kashi and Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Junction.
Gyanvapi Mosque
Mosque
The Gyanvapi Mosque is a mosque located in Varanasi, in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India. The mosque was constructed in c. 1678 CE, a decade after Aurangzeb's demolition of the Hindu temple of Shiva or Kashi Vishwanath that was then on the site.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Varanasi and Sarnath.
Varanasi
Varanasi, once known as Benares or Banaras and Kashi, is a city at the banks of the Ganges River in Uttar Pradesh, India. Being the most sacred city in Hinduism and Jainism, and important in the history of Buddhism, Varanasi is India's most important pilgrimage destination.
Sarnath
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Sarnath is a small village in Uttar Pradesh, India, about 13 km north-east of Varanasi. It's famous as the site of the deer park where Gautama Buddha first taught the Dharma and also where the original Sangha was formed.
Lohta
Locality
Lohta is a census town in Varanasi district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Lohta is situated 8 km southwest of Varanasi.
Varanasi
- Location: Uttar Pradesh, Plains, India, South Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Varanasi” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فاراناسي”
- Arabic: “منطقة فاراناسي”
- Arabic: “منطقة فَرَناسي”
- Arabic: “وارانسي”
- Armenian: “Վարանասի”
- Asturian: “distritu de Varanasi”
- Asturian: “Varanasi (distritu)”
- Asturian: “Varanasi”
- Basque: “Varanasi barrutia”
- Bengali: “বারাণসী জেলা”
- Bhojpuri: “वाराणसी जिला”
- Catalan: “districte de Benarés”
- Catalan: “Districte de Benarés”
- Cebuano: “Vārānasi”
- Chinese: “Benares”
- Chinese: “瓦拉納西縣”
- Danish: “Varanasi”
- Dutch: “Benares”
- Dutch: “Varanasi”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فاراناسى”
- French: “district de Vārānasī”
- French: “District de Vārānasī”
- German: “Varanasi”
- Gujarati: “વારાણસી જિલ્લો”
- Hindi: “वाराणसी जिला”
- Indonesian: “Distrik Varanasi”
- Italian: “distretto di Varanasi”
- Italian: “Distretto di Varanasi”
- Japanese: “ヴァーラーナシー県”
- Malayalam: “വാരണാസി ജില്ല”
- Marathi: “वाराणसी जिल्हा”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Benares”
- Nepali: “वाराणसी जिल्ला”
- Newari: “वाराणसी जिल्ला”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Varanasi”
- Norwegian: “Varanasi”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Districte de Varanasi”
- Oriya: “ବାରଣାସୀ ଜିଲ୍ଲା”
- Panjabi: “ਵਾਰਾਣਸੀ”
- Persian: “بخش وارناسی”
- Persian: “بنارس”
- Persian: “واراناسی”
- Persian: “وارانسی”
- Russian: “Варанаси”
- Sanskrit: “वाराणसीमण्डलम्”
- Santali: “ᱵᱟᱨᱟᱬᱟᱥᱤ ᱦᱚᱱᱚᱛ”
- Slovak: “Benáres”
- Slovenian: “Varanasi”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Varanasi”
- Swedish: “Varanasi”
- Tamil: “வாரணாசி மாவட்டம்”
- Tamil: “வாரனாசி மாவட்டம்”
- Tamil: “வாராணசி மாவட்டம்”
- Telugu: “వారణాశి జిల్లా”
- Telugu: “వారణాసి జిల్లా”
- Thai: “อำเภอพาราณสี”
- Tumbuka: “Varanasi District, India”
- Urdu: “بنارس”
- Urdu: “ضلع وارانسی”
- Urdu: “وارانسی ضلع”
- Urdu: “وارانسی”
- Vietnamese: “Varanasi”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع وارانسی”
- Western Panjabi: “واراݨسی”
- “वाराणसी जिला”
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