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Tughlaqabad Fort

Tughluqabad Fort is a ruined fort in , India. Ghiyasuddin Tughluq, the founder of the Tughlaq dynasty and ruler of the Delhi Sultanate, constructed it in 1321 when he established the third historic city of Delhi.
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  • Opening hours: 24/7
  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: building in India
  • Also known as: “Fort Tughlakabad”, “Tughlakabad”, “Tughlakābād”, and “Tughlakabad Fort”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Dr. Karni Singh Shooting Range and Baitul Hadi Mosque.

Sports venue
is a shooting range in , India. Spread over 18 acres, it is situated on South Delhi ridges in the backdrop of Adilabad Fort, near the historic Tughlaqabad Fort to its North and Lake to its South West. is situated 1½ km southeast of Tughlaqabad Fort.

Mosque
Photo: HolyArtThou, CC0.
is situated 1½ km west of Tughlaqabad Fort.

Forest
is located in South Delhi. It is a densely forested park in Delhi spreading over 435 acres of land. The park is accessible from , Tughlakabad Extension, Batra Gate, Dhobi Ghat, Sheikh Sarai, Chirag Delhi, Masjid Moth DDA Flats and Balvantray Mehta Vidya Bhawan School.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tughlakabad and Khanpur.

Suburb
Photo: Pinakpani, CC BY-SA 4.0.
village is one of the oldest urban villages in the District of . The village is named after Ghiyas-ud-din Tughlaq and is located in the shadows of the 700-year-old ruins of Tughlaqabad Fort.

Neighborhood
is a neighborhood in , India, situated in the South Delhi district, on the - road. Its surrounding localities are , Madangir, Sainik farms, Ambedkar Nagar, plus Indo-Tibetan Border Police's National Centre for UNCIVPOL training is also situated at Tigri in . is situated 2½ km west of Tughlaqabad Fort.

Suburb
is an neighborhood in South East Delhi and home to a large Bengali community. It was established on a rocky terrain in the early 1960s under the name EPDP Colony and later renamed after the deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das in the 1980s. is situated 3 km north of Tughlaqabad Fort.

Tughlaqabad Fort

Latitude
28.51397° or 28° 30′ 50″ north
Longitude
77.25996° or 77° 15′ 36″ east
Elevation
242 metres (794 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IN TKD
Open location code
7JWVG775+HX
Open­Street­Map ID
way 102684251
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­castle
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
1254129
Wiki­data ID
Q2511605
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In Other Languages

From Bhojpuri to Urdu—“Tughlaqabad Fort” goes by many names.
  • Bhojpuri: “तुगलकाबाद किला”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “قلعة تجلقبد”
  • Finnish: “Tughlaqabadin linnake”
  • French: “Tughlaqabad”
  • Georgian: “თუღლაკაბადი”
  • German: “Tughlaqabad”
  • Hindi: “तुगलकाबाद किला”
  • Hindi: “तुग़लक़ाबाद किला”
  • Hindi: “तुगलकाबाद”
  • Hindi: “तुग़लक़ाबाद”
  • Japanese: “トゥグルカーバード城”
  • Malayalam: “Tughlaqabad Fort”
  • Malayalam: “Tughlaqabad”
  • Malayalam: “തുക്ലക്കാബാദ്”
  • Malayalam: “തുഗ്ലക്കാബാദ് കോട്ട”
  • Malayalam: “തുഗ്ലക്കാബാദ്”
  • Persian: “قلعه تغلق‌آباد”
  • Polish: “Tughluqabad”
  • Russian: “Туглакабад”
  • Swedish: “Tughlaqabad Fort”
  • Swedish: “Tughlaqabad”
  • Tamil: “துக்ளகாபாத் கோட்டை”
  • Telugu: “తుగ్లఖాబాద్ కోట”
  • Ukrainian: “Туґхлакабад”
  • Urdu: “تغلق آباد قلعہ”
  • “तुगलकाबाद किला”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Tughlakabad Extension and Gangotri Apartments.

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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 “Tughlaqabad Fort”. Photo: Shannon.Mathew, CC BY-SA 3.0.