Ambala Division
Kurukshetra
Thanesar

Thanesar

Thanesar is a historic city and Hindu pilgrimage centre in the Kurukshetra district of , . It is located approximately 160 km northwest of .
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Wikipedia
  • Type: Suburb with 155,000 residents
  • Description: human settlement in Kurukshetra district, Ambala division, Haryana, India
  • Also known as: “Old Kurukshetra”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Brahma Sarovar and Kurukshetra Junction railway station.

Photo: Kukoo007, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a natural and divine tank in , in the state of , India. It is 3600 feet long, 1500 feet wide, and 45 feet deep. Hinduism lays emphasis on taking bath for internal and external purity.

Railway station
Photo: Manojkhurana, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a junction station at the junction of Delhi–Kalka line and Kurukshetra–Jind branch line. It is located in the Indian state of .

Museum
Photo: ShashankSharma2511, CC BY 3.0.
The is located next to Shrikrishna Museum in Thanesar, , Haryana, India about 1.5 km from Kurukshetra railway station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kheri Ram Nagar and Jyotisar.

Village
is a village situated in state of in District Kurukshetra. This is a small village having about 3500 people living in it. is situated 4½ km southeast of Thanesar.

Village
, on the bank of Sarovar wetland, is a Hindu pilgrimage site in the city of in state of . According to Hindu tradition, Krishna delivered the sermon of Bhagavad Gita – the doctrine of Karma and Dharma to his wavering friend Arjuna to guide him to resolve his ethical dilemma and revealed his vishvarupa to him. is situated 6 km west of Thanesar.

Thanesar

Latitude
29.9751° or 29° 58′ 30″ north
Longitude
76.8309° or 76° 49′ 51″ east
Population
155,000
Elevation
260 metres (853 feet)
Open location code
7JXRXRGJ+29
Open­Street­Map ID
node 245769218
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
1254657
Wiki­data ID
Q2088448
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Thanesar” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تانيسر”
  • Arabic: “ثانيسار”
  • Bengali: “থানেসার”
  • Bhojpuri: “थानेसर”
  • Bishnupriya: “থানেসার”
  • Catalan: “Thanesar”
  • Cebuano: “Thānesar”
  • Chinese: “Thanesar”
  • Chinese: “塔內薩爾”
  • Chinese: “塔内萨尔”
  • Dutch: “Thanesar”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تانيسر”
  • Esperanto: “Thanesar”
  • Finnish: “Thanesar”
  • French: “Thanesar”
  • German: “Thanesar”
  • Gujarati: “થાનેશાર”
  • Hebrew: “תאנסאר”
  • Hindi: “थानेसर”
  • Indonesian: “Thanesar”
  • Irish: “Thanesar”
  • Italian: “Thanesar”
  • Japanese: “ターネーサル”
  • Japanese: “テインザー”
  • Kannada: “ಥಾನೆಸರ್”
  • Kannada: “ಥಾನೇಸರ್”
  • Kashmiri: “تھانیسر”
  • Korean: “싸네사르”
  • Malagasy: “Thanesar”
  • Malay: “Thanesar”
  • Malayalam: “Thanesar”
  • Malayalam: “താനേസർ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Thanesar”
  • Nepali: “थानेसर”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Thanesar”
  • Norwegian: “Thanesar”
  • Oriya: “ଥାନେସର”
  • Panjabi: “ਥਾਨੇਸਰ”
  • Persian: “تانیسر”
  • Polish: “Thanesar”
  • Portuguese: “Thanesar”
  • Russian: “Таннасар”
  • Russian: “Тханесар”
  • Slovenian: “Thanesar”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Kuruksetra”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad de Kurukshetra”
  • Spanish: “Ciudad Kurukshetra”
  • Spanish: “Kuruksetra”
  • Spanish: “Kurukshetra”
  • Spanish: “Thanasvar”
  • Spanish: “Thanesar”
  • Spanish: “Thaneshwar”
  • Spanish: “Thanessar”
  • Swedish: “Thanesar”
  • Tamil: “தனேசர்”
  • Tamil: “தானேசர்”
  • Telugu: “థనేసార్”
  • Ukrainian: “Курукшетра”
  • Ukrainian: “Тханесар”
  • Urdu: “تھانیسر”
  • Vietnamese: “Thanesar”
  • Western Panjabi: “تہانسیر”
  • “थानेसर”

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Explore places such as Bhawāni Khera and Gobindgarh.

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Highlights include Prehlad Hospital and Harshverdhan Park.

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