Nalanda
Nalanda district is one of the thirty-eight districts of the state of Bihar in India. Bihar Sharif is the administrative headquarters of this district.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: County with 2,880,000 residents
- Description: district of Bihar, India
- Also known as: “Nalanda district”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Rahui Road railway station and Sohsarai railway station.
Rahui Road railway station
Railway station
Rahui Road railway station is a railway station on the Bakhtiyarpur–Tilaiya line under the Danapur railway division of East Central Railway zone. It is situated beside National Highway 31 at Patasang in Nalanda district in the Indian state of Bihar.
Sohsarai railway station
Railway stop
Sohsarai railway station is a railway station on the Bakhtiyarpur–Tilaiya line under the Danapur railway division of East Central Railway zone. It is situated beside Bihar Sharif Eastern Bypass, Imamganj at Sohsarai in Nalanda district in the Indian state of Bihar.
Ambapendarpur Halt railway station
Railway stop
Ambapendarpur Halt railway station is a halt railway station on the Bakhtiyarpur–Tilaiya line under the Danapur railway division of East Central Railway zone.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bihar Sharif.
Bihar Sharif
Photo: Abhishek.chandan, Public domain.
Bihar Sharif is a town of 300,000 people in Bihar, India. It is east of the Paimar River, a tributary of the Ganges River. The old centre of town has examples of medieval Islamic architecture, such as the Bukhari Mosque.
Nalanda
- Categories: district of India and locality
- Location: Bihar, Plains, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
25.25° or 25° 15′ northLongitude
85.5833° or 85° 35′ eastPopulation
2,880,000Elevation
55 metres (180 feet)Abbreviation
“NLD”Open location code
7MQ77H2M+28OpenStreetMap ID
node 316416976OpenStreetMap feature
place=county
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In Other Languages
From Assamese to Western Panjabi—“Nalanda” goes by many names.
- Assamese: “নালন্দা জিলা”
- Assamese: “নালন্দা”
- Asturian: “distritu de Nalanda”
- Asturian: “Nalanda (distritu)”
- Asturian: “Nalanda”
- Awadhi: “नालंदा जिला”
- Basque: “Nalanda barrutia”
- Bengali: “নালন্দা জেলা”
- Bhojpuri: “नालंदा जिला”
- Chinese: “Nalanda”
- Chinese: “那烂陀县”
- Chinese: “那蘭達縣”
- Dutch: “Nalanda”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نالاندا ديستريكت”
- French: “district de Nalanda”
- French: “District de Nalanda”
- German: “Nalanda”
- Gujarati: “નાલંદા જિલ્લો”
- Hindi: “नालंदा जिला”
- Hindi: “नालंदा”
- Hungarian: “Nalanda”
- Italian: “distretto di Nalanda”
- Italian: “Distretto di Nalanda”
- Japanese: “ナーランダー県”
- Japanese: “ナーランダ県”
- Kannada: “ನಳಂದ”
- Maithili: “नालन्दा जिला”
- Malayalam: “നളന്ദ ജില്ല”
- Marathi: “नालंदा जिल्हा”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Nalanda”
- Nepali: “नालंदा जिल्ला”
- Nepali: “नालन्दा जिल्ला”
- Newari: “नालन्दा जिल्ला”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Nalanda”
- Norwegian: “Nalanda”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Districte de Nalanda”
- Oriya: “ନାଳନ୍ଦା ଜିଲ୍ଲା”
- Panjabi: “ਜ਼ਿਲ੍ਹਾ ਨਾਲੰਦਾ”
- Panjabi: “ਨਾਲੰਦਾ”
- Persian: “بخش نالاندا”
- Russian: “Наланда”
- Sanskrit: “नलन्दामण्डलम्”
- Sanskrit: “नालन्दामण्डलम्”
- Santali: “ᱱᱟᱞᱚᱱᱫᱟ ᱦᱚᱱᱚᱛ”
- Slovenian: “Nalanda”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Nalanda”
- Spanish: “Nalanda”
- Swedish: “Nalanda”
- Swedish: “Nālanda”
- Tamil: “நாலந்தா மாவட்டம்”
- Telugu: “నలందా జిల్లా”
- Urdu: “ضلع نالندہ”
- Urdu: “نالندا ضلع”
- Vietnamese: “Nalanda”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع نالندا”
- “नालंदा जिला”
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