Srīnagar District
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- Type: district of India with 1,240,000 residents
- Description: district of Jammu and Kashmir, India
- Also known as: “Srinagar”, “Srinagar district”, and “Srinagar District”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hari Parbat and Roza Bal.
Hari Parbat
Peak
Photo: M.khannn, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hari Parbat, also called Koh-i-Maran, is a hill overlooking Srinagar, the largest city and the capital of Jammu and Kashmir, India. It is the site of the Hari Parbat fort, built by the Durrani Empire, and of a Hindu temple, mosques, and gurdwara.
Roza Bal
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The Roza Bal, Rouza Bal, or Rozabal is a shrine located in the Khanyar quarter in downtown area of Srinagar in Kashmir, India. The word roza means tomb, the word bal means place.
Badami Bagh
Military installation
Badami Bagh or Badam Bagah is a cantonment town on the outskirts of Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir, India. Established in the 1920s as military barracks on a site containing several ancient Hindu and Budhhist ruins near Pandrethan, the Badami Bagh Cantonment currently serves as the headquarters of the Indian Army's Chinar Corps, with many of the army's soldiers residing here.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Srinagar and Hazratbal.
Srinagar
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Srinagar in the Kashmir Valley is the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir and the largest city in the Kashmir region.
Hazratbal
Suburb
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Hazratbal is a notified area situated in the Srinagar district of Jammu and Kashmir. It is about 10 km from the Srinagar city center. The area became famous after the construction of Hazratbal Shrine, where hundreds of thousands of people visit every year because many relics related to the Islamic prophet Muhammad are believed to be there. Hazratbal is situated 5 km north of Srīnagar District.
Nowhatta
Suburb
Nowhatta, known as Navyut in Kashmiri, is a town of historical importance situated at a distance of 5 km from Lal Chowk, Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir, India.
Srīnagar District
- Location: Jammu and Kashmir, India, South Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Srīnagar District” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سرينغر”
- Asturian: “distritu de Srinagar”
- Asturian: “Srinagar (distritu)”
- Asturian: “Srinagar”
- Basque: “Srinagar barrutia”
- Bengali: “শ্রীনগর জেলা”
- Bhojpuri: “श्रीनगर जिला”
- Cebuano: “Srīnagar (distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Srīnagar”
- Chinese: “Srinagar”
- Chinese: “斯利那加县”
- Chinese: “斯利那加縣”
- Dutch: “Srinagar”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سريناجار”
- French: “district de Srinagar”
- French: “District de Srinagar”
- German: “Srinagar”
- Gujarati: “શ્રીનગર જિલ્લો”
- Hindi: “श्रीनगर जिला”
- Italian: “distretto di Srinagar”
- Italian: “Distretto di Srinagar”
- Italian: “Srinagar”
- Japanese: “シュリーナガル県”
- Kashmiri: “سِری نَگَر”
- Kashmiri: “سِریٖنَگَر ضِلہٕ”
- Malayalam: “ശ്രീനഗർ ജില്ല”
- Marathi: “श्रीनगर जिल्हा”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Srinagar”
- Nepali: “श्रीनगर जिल्ला”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Srinagar”
- Norwegian: “Srinagar”
- Panjabi: “ਸ੍ਰੀਨਗਰ ਜ਼ਿਲ੍ਹਾ”
- Persian: “بخش سرینگر”
- Persian: “سرینگر”
- Pushto: “سري نگر”
- Russian: “Округ Сринагар”
- Russian: “Сринагар”
- Russian: “Шринагар”
- Sanskrit: “श्रीनगरमण्डलम्”
- Santali: “ᱥᱨᱤᱱᱚᱜᱚᱨ ᱦᱚᱱᱚᱛ”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Srinagar”
- Tamil: “ஸ்ரீநகர் மாவட்டம்”
- Telugu: “శ్రీనగర్ జిల్లా”
- Ukrainian: “Срінагар (округ)”
- Ukrainian: “Срінагар”
- Urdu: “سرینگر ضلع”
- Urdu: “سرینگر”
- Urdu: “ضلع سرینگر”
- Vietnamese: “Srinagar”
- Western Panjabi: “سری نگر”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع سری نگر”
- “श्रीनगर जिला”
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