Sonpur
Sonpur, officially named Sonepur, is a city in the Indian state of Bihar, situated on the banks of the Gandaki River and Ganges River in the Saran District. Sonpur hosts Asia's largest cattle fair, which starts on Kartik Poornima.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 1,000 residents
- Description: town in Bihar, India
- Also known as: “Saran”, “Sonepur”, “Sonepur, Bihar”, and “Sonpur, Bihar”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sonpur Junction railway station and Bharpura Pahleza Ghat Junction railway station.
Sonpur Junction railway station
Railway station
Photo: Abhifrm.masaurhi, CC0.
Sonpur Junction, station code SEE, is a railway station and the headquarters of the Sonpur railway division of East Central Railway. Sonpur Junction is located in Sonpur city in Saran district in the Indian state of Bihar.
Bharpura Pahleza Ghat Junction railway station
Railway station
Photo: Dehwamaisa, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bharpura Pahlejaghat Junction, station code PHLG, is a railway station in Sonpur division of East Central Railway. Bharpura Pahlejaghat Junction is located in Sonpur city in Saran district in the Indian state of Bihar.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Digha.
Digha
Suburb
Digha, also spelled as Deega in colonial documents, is a residential neighbourhood in Patna. The area is served by Digha PS under Patna Police. Digha is mostly known for the "Ghats" mean place near Ganga river. Digha is situated 9 km southwest of Sonpur.
Sonpur
- Categories: human settlement, Nagar Panchayat, and locality
- Location: Sonepur, Sáran District, Bihar, Plains, India, South Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
25.69777° or 25° 41′ 52″ northLongitude
85.15695° or 85° 9′ 25″ eastPopulation
1,000Elevation
56 metres (184 feet)Open location code
7MQ7M5X4+4QOpenStreetMap ID
node 567133588OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1255735Wikidata ID
Q1666538
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Vietnamese—“Sonpur” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “সোনপুর”
- Bhojpuri: “सोनपुर”
- Bishnupriya: “সোনেপুর”
- Chinese: “Sonepur”
- Chinese: “索内普尔”
- Dutch: “Sonepur (stad)”
- Dutch: “Sonepur”
- Fiji Hindi: “Sonepur”
- French: “Sonepur”
- German: “Sonpur”
- Hausa: “Sonepur”
- Hindi: “सोनपुर, बिहार”
- Hindi: “सोनपुर”
- Irish: “Sonpur”
- Italian: “Sonepur”
- Japanese: “ソーンプル”
- Malay: “Sonepur”
- Marathi: “सोनपूर”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sonepur”
- Oriya: “ସୋନେପୁର, ବିହାର”
- Oriya: “ସୋନେପୁର”
- Portuguese: “Sonepur”
- Santali: “ᱥᱳᱱᱯᱩᱨ, ᱵᱤᱦᱟᱨ”
- Santali: “ᱥᱳᱱᱯᱩᱨ”
- Tamil: “சோன்பூர் பீகார்”
- Tamil: “சோன்பூர், பீகார்”
- Vietnamese: “Sonepur”
- “सोनपुर, बिहार”
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