Jowai
Jowai is the headquarters of the West Jaintia Hills district of the state of Meghalaya, India, and is home to the Pnar, a sub-tribe of the Khasi people.Jowai
- Type: Town with 41,000 residents
- Description: town of Meghalaya
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Thadlaskein, West Jaintia Hills, Meghalaya, North-Eastern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
25.44347° or 25° 26′ 37″ north
Longitude
92.19732° or 92° 11′ 50″ east
Population
41,000
Elevation
1,358 metres (4,455 feet)
Open location code
7MQJC5VW+9W
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Vietnamese—“Jowai” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “জোয়াই”
- Bishnupriya: “জাওয়াই”
- Catalan: “Jowai”
- Chinese: “Jawai”
- Chinese: “賈瓦伊”
- Chinese: “贾瓦伊”
- Dutch: “Jawai”
- Dutch: “Jowai”
- French: “Jowai”
- German: “Jawai”
- German: “Jowai”
- Gujarati: “જોવાઈ”
- Hindi: “जोवाई”
- Irish: “Jowai”
- Italian: “Jowai”
- Japanese: “ジョワイ”
- Kannada: “ಜೋವಾಈ”
- Kannada: “ಜೋವಾಯ್”
- Kashmiri: “جووے”
- Korean: “조와이”
- Magahi: “जवाइ”
- Malagasy: “Jowai”
- Malay: “Jawai”
- Malayalam: “Jowai”
- Malayalam: “ജോവായി”
- Manipuri: “ꯖꯣꯋꯥꯏ”
- Marathi: “जोवाई”
- Marathi: “जोवाल”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Jawai”
- Newari: “जवाइ”
- Newari: “जवाई”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Jowai”
- Portuguese: “Jawai”
- Russian: “Джоваи”
- Sanskrit: “जोवाइ”
- Spanish: “Jowai”
- Tamil: “ஜோவாய்”
- Tamil: “ஜோவை”
- Telugu: “జోవై”
- Ukrainian: “Джовай”
- Urdu: “جووائی”
- Urdu: “جووے”
- Vietnamese: “Jawai”
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