Handwara
Handwara is a town in Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir, India. It is located on Baramulla-Handwara National Highway NH-701 and is governed by a municipal committee.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 13,600 residents
- Description: town in India
- Also known as: “Handawer”, “Handawor”, “Handwāra”, and “Handwoar”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Langate.
Langate
Town
Langate is a notified area and tehsil headquarters in the Kupwara district of Jammu and Kashmir, India. It is located 16 km south of the district headquarters Kupwara and 70 km northwest from the state capital Srinagar. Langate is situated 3½ km southeast of Handwara.
Handwara
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Handwara, Kupwara District, Jammu and Kashmir, India, South Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
34.39931° or 34° 23′ 58″ northLongitude
74.28274° or 74° 16′ 58″ eastPopulation
13,600Elevation
1,606 metres (5,269 feet)Open location code
8J6P97XM+P3OpenStreetMap ID
node 245774950OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1270439Wikidata ID
Q720828
This page is based on OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikipedia.
We’d love your help improving our open data sources. Thank you for contributing.
Satellite Map
Discover Handwara from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Handwara” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “هندوار”
- Arabic: “هَنْدَوَارُ”
- Arabic: “هندوارة”
- Asturian: “Handwara”
- Bishnupriya: “হান্ডৱার”
- Chinese: “Handwara”
- Chinese: “汉德瓦拉”
- Dutch: “Handwara”
- German: “Handwara”
- Hindi: “हंदवाड़ा”
- Hindi: “हंदवारा”
- Irish: “Handwara”
- Italian: “Handwara”
- Kashmiri: “ہنٛدوارہ”
- Kashmiri: “ہنٛدٕوور”
- Kashmiri: “ہَنٛدوور”
- Ladin: “Handwara”
- Malagasy: “Handwara”
- Malay: “Handwara”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Handwara”
- Newari: “हान्द्वारा”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Handwara”
- Persian: “هندورا”
- Portuguese: “Handwara”
- Urdu: “ہندواڑہ”
- Vietnamese: “Handwara”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Banday Mohalla and OmarAbad.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Handwara Central Mosque and Masjid Sharief.
India: Must-Visit Destinations
Delve into Mumbai, Delhi, Kolkata, and Bangalore.
Curious Places to Discover
Uncover intriguing places from every corner of the globe.
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 “Handwara”. Photo: Kumaravels, CC BY 2.5 in.