Bihar
Gaya District
Sherghati

Sherghati

Sherghati is a town in the in Bihar, India. The Morhar River surrounds it. A meteorite that came from Mars fell here on 25 August 1865; it is now kept in a London museum, and is known as the Shergotty meteorite.
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  • Type: Town with 5,000 residents
  • Description: human settlement in Gaya district, Magadh division, Bihar, India
  • Also known as: “shergotty”

Sherghati

Latitude
24.56847° or 24° 34′ 7″ north
Longitude
84.80166° or 84° 48′ 6″ east
Population
5,000
Elevation
151 metres (495 feet)
Open location code
7MP6HR92+9M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 245724263
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1256572
Wiki­data ID
Q2560001
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In Other Languages

From Bengali to Vietnamese—“Sherghati” goes by many names.
  • Bengali: “শেরঘাঁটি”
  • Bishnupriya: “শেহেরগাতি”
  • Catalan: “Sherghati”
  • Cebuano: “Sherghāti”
  • Chinese: “Sherghati”
  • Chinese: “謝爾卡蒂”
  • Chinese: “谢尔卡蒂”
  • Dutch: “Sherghati”
  • French: “Sherghati”
  • German: “Sherghati”
  • Hausa: “Sherghati”
  • Hindi: “शेरघाटी”
  • Irish: “Sherghati”
  • Italian: “Sherghati”
  • Magahi: “शेरघाटी”
  • Malagasy: “Sherghati”
  • Malay: “Sherghati”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sherghati”
  • Oriya: “ଶେରଘାଟି”
  • Persian: “شرغاتی”
  • Portuguese: “Sherghati”
  • Swedish: “Sherghāti”
  • Urdu: “شیرگھاٹی”
  • Vietnamese: “Sherghati”

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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 “Sherghati”. Photo: Gunjanarya, CC BY-SA 3.0.