Hemkund
Ghangaria is a village at 3,100 m in the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand state in Himalayan North, India. It is the gateway aka base camp for hikes into the Valley of Flowers and the Hemkunt pilgrimage site.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Locality
- Description: pilgrimage site in Chamoli, Uttarakhand, India
- Also known as: “Gurdwara Hemkund Sahib”, “Lokepal”, “Lokpal”, and “Lokpāl”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ghangaria.
Ghangaria
Photo: Sujay25, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ghangaria is a village at 3,100 m in the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand state in Himalayan North, India. It is the gateway aka base camp for hikes into the Valley of Flowers and the Hemkunt pilgrimage site.
Hemkund
- Category: human settlement
- Location: Joshimath, Chamoli district, Uttarakhand, Himalayan North, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
30.69901° or 30° 41′ 56″ northLongitude
79.61498° or 79° 36′ 54″ eastElevation
4,336 metres (14,226 feet)Open location code
8J2XMJX7+JXOpenStreetMap ID
node 2376466275OpenStreetMap feature
place=locality
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Western Panjabi—“Hemkund” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Hemkund”
- French: “Hemkunt Sahib”
- German: “Hemkund”
- Gujarati: “હેમકુંડ સાહેબ”
- Hindi: “हेमकुंट साहिब”
- Indonesian: “Gurdwara Hemkund Sahib”
- Irish: “Hemkund”
- Panjabi: “ਹੇਮਕੁੰਟ ਸਾਹਿਬ”
- Tamil: “ஹேமகுண்டம்”
- Ukrainian: “Хемкунд”
- Western Panjabi: “ہیم کنٹ صاحب”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Hemkund”. Photo: Naresh Chandra, CC BY-SA 4.0.