Kathua District
Kathua district is an administrative district in the Jammu division of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region. It is surrounded by Jammu to the northwest, the Doda and Udhampur districts to the north, the state of Himachal Pradesh to the east, Punjab to the south, and Pakistan's working boundary to the west.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: County with 616,000 residents
- Description: district of Jammu and Kashmir, India
- Also known as: “Kathua” and “Kathua district”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Billawar.
Billawar
Town
Photo: Kushalsharma1989, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Billawar is a town and a notified area committee in Kathua district of the Indian Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. Billawar was founded by Raja Bhog Pal in the 7th century A.D, it was a kingdom and its capital was Basohli until the 11th century.
Kathua District
- Categories: district of India and locality
- Location: Jammu and Kashmir, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
32.5833° or 32° 35′ northLongitude
75.5° or 75° 30′ eastPopulation
616,000Elevation
570 metres (1,870 feet)Abbreviation
“KTH”Open location code
8J4QHGM2+82OpenStreetMap ID
node 316417024OpenStreetMap feature
place=county
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Western Panjabi—“Kathua District” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “distritu de Kathua”
- Asturian: “Kathua (distritu)”
- Asturian: “Kathua”
- Basque: “Kathua barrutia”
- Bengali: “কাঠুয়া জেলা”
- Bhojpuri: “कठुआ जिला”
- Cebuano: “Kathua”
- Chinese: “Kathua”
- Chinese: “卡图瓦县”
- Chinese: “卡圖瓦縣”
- Dutch: “Kathua”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كاثوا”
- French: “District de Kathua”
- German: “Kathua”
- Gujarati: “કઠુઆ જિલ્લો”
- Hindi: “कठुआ जिला”
- Hindi: “कठुआ ज़िला”
- Italian: “distretto di Kathua”
- Italian: “Distretto di Kathua”
- Kashmiri: “کٹھوعہ ضِلہٕ”
- Malayalam: “കത്വ ജില്ല”
- Marathi: “कथुआ जिल्हा”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kathua”
- Nepali: “कठुआ जिल्ला”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kathua”
- Norwegian: “Kathua”
- Persian: “بخش کاتوا”
- Russian: “Катхуа”
- Russian: “Округ Катхуа”
- Sanskrit: “कठुवामण्डलम्”
- Santali: “ᱠᱟᱴᱷᱩᱣᱟ ᱦᱚᱱᱚᱛ”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Kathua”
- Swedish: “Kathua”
- Tamil: “கதுவா மாவட்டம்”
- Telugu: “కథువా జిల్లా”
- Urdu: “ضلع کٹھوعہ”
- Urdu: “کتھوا ضلع”
- Vietnamese: “Kathua”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع کٹھوعا”
- “कठुआ जिला”
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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 “Kathua District”. Photo: Vikramaadityasumbria, CC BY-SA 3.0.