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Rohtas District

Rohtas district also spelled as Rautas,is one of the thirty-eight districts of Bihar state, India. It came into existence when Shahabad District was bifurcated into Bhojpur & Rohtas in 1972.
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  • Type: County with 2,960,000 residents
  • Description: district of Bihar, India
  • Also known as: “Rohtas” and “Rohtas district”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sasaram Junction railway station and Tomb of Sher Shah Suri.

Railway station
Photo: Anup Sadi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is on the Gaya–Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Junction section of the Grand Chord line in India. It serves and the surrounding areas in Rohtas district in the Indian state of .

Memorial
Photo: Nandanupadhyay, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a mausoleum located in , in the Indian state of . Sher Shah Suri, who was the founder of the Sur Empire, commissioned the tomb for himself.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sasaram.

Photo: Rangan Datta Wiki, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a city in the region of , India. The town contains three tombs of Sur kings and a couple of related monuments. lies on the Grand Trunk Road, which was refurbished by Sher Shah Suri.

Rohtas District

Latitude
24.9888° or 24° 59′ 20″ north
Longitude
84.0109° or 84° 0′ 39″ east
Population
2,960,000
Elevation
104 metres (341 feet)
Abbreviation
“RTS”
Open location code
7MP6X2Q6+G9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316417151
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­county
Geo­Names ID
1258074
Wiki­data ID
Q100085
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Rohtas District” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “روحتاس”
  • Assamese: “ৰোহতাছ জিলা”
  • Asturian: “distritu de Rohtas”
  • Asturian: “Rohtas (distritu)”
  • Asturian: “Rohtas”
  • Awadhi: “रोहतास जिला”
  • Basque: “Rohtas barrutia”
  • Bengali: “রোহতাস জেলা”
  • Bhojpuri: “रोहतास जिला”
  • Catalan: “districte de Rohtas”
  • Cebuano: “Rohtās”
  • Chinese: “Rohtas”
  • Chinese: “罗赫达斯县”
  • Dutch: “Rohtas”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “روهتاس”
  • French: “district de Rohtas”
  • French: “District de Rohtas”
  • German: “Rohtas”
  • Gujarati: “રોહતાસ જિલ્લો”
  • Hindi: “रोहतास जिला”
  • Hindi: “रोहतास”
  • Hungarian: “Rohtas”
  • Italian: “distretto di Rohtas”
  • Italian: “Distretto di Rohtas”
  • Japanese: “ロータース県”
  • Maithili: “रोहतास जिला”
  • Malayalam: “റോഹ്താസ് ജില്ല”
  • Marathi: “रोहतास जिल्हा”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Rohtas”
  • Nepali: “रोहतास जिल्ला”
  • Newari: “रोहतास जिल्ला”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Rohtas”
  • Norwegian: “Rohtas”
  • Oriya: “ରୋହତାସ ଜିଲ୍ଲା”
  • Panjabi: “ਜ਼ਿਲ੍ਹਾ ਰੋਹਤਾਸ”
  • Persian: “بخش روتاس”
  • Russian: “Рохтас”
  • Sanskrit: “रोहतासमण्डलम्”
  • Santali: “ᱨᱳᱦᱛᱟᱥ ᱦᱚᱱᱚᱛ”
  • Spanish: “Distrito de Rohtas”
  • Spanish: “Rohtas”
  • Swedish: “Rohtas”
  • Tamil: “ரோத்தாஸ் மாவட்டம்”
  • Telugu: “రోహ్తాస్ జిల్లా”
  • Telugu: “రోహ్‌తాస్ జిల్లా”
  • Urdu: “روہتاس ضلع”
  • Urdu: “ضلع روہتاس”
  • Vietnamese: “Rohtas”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع روہتاس”
  • “रोहतास जिला”

Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

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