Pokhran
Pokhran is a town and a municipality located 112 km east of Jaisalmer city in the Jaisalmer district of the Indian state of Rajasthan. It is situated in the Thar Desert region.Photo: Archan dave, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 23,600 residents
- Description: village in Rajasthan, India
- Also known as: “Pokaran” and “Pokharan”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pokaran railway station.
Pokaran railway station
Railway station
Photo: Arpitamaddali, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pokaran railway station is a major railway station in the North Western Railway zone, located in Pokaran, Rajasthan. Its code is POK. The railway station is under the administrative control of North Western Railway of Indian Railways.
Pokhran
- Category: locality
- Location: Pokaran, Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, Western India, India, South Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
26.91988° or 26° 55′ 12″ northLongitude
71.91976° or 71° 55′ 11″ eastPopulation
23,600Elevation
233 metres (764 feet)Open location code
7JRHWW99+XWOpenStreetMap ID
node 245754750OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1259460Wikidata ID
Q1779576
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Pokhran” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بوخران”
- Asturian: “Pokhran”
- Bengali: “পোকরান”
- Bengali: “পোখরান”
- Bishnupriya: “পোকরান”
- Bulgarian: “Покаран”
- Catalan: “Pokaran”
- Catalan: “Pokharan”
- Catalan: “Pokhran”
- Cebuano: “Pokaran”
- Chinese: “波卡兰”
- Chinese: “波卡蘭”
- Dutch: “Pokhran”
- Finnish: “Pokaran”
- French: “Pokharan”
- Hindi: “पोकरण”
- Hindi: “पोखरण”
- Hindi: “पोखरन”
- Indonesian: “Pokhran”
- Italian: “Pokaran”
- Japanese: “ポカラン”
- Kannada: “ಪೋಖ್ರಾನ್”
- Korean: “포카란”
- Ladin: “Pokhran”
- Malay: “Pokaran”
- Malayalam: “പൊഖ്റാൻ”
- Marathi: “पोखरण”
- Oriya: “ପୋଖରାନ”
- Portuguese: “Pokharan”
- Russian: “Покаран”
- Russian: “Покхран”
- Spanish: “Pokhran”
- Swedish: “Pokaran”
- Tamil: “பொக்ரான்”
- Telugu: “పోఖ్రాన్”
- Ukrainian: “Похран”
- Vietnamese: “Pokaran”
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Notable Places Nearby
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