Gurez
Gurez, or Gurais, is a tehsil in Bandipore District of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir. It contains most of the Gurez Valley, located in the high Himalayas to the north of the Kashmir Valley, separated from it by the great Himalayan range, and is situated about 86 kilometres from district headquarters Bandipore and 123 kilometres from Srinagar.- Locality
- …lies at an elevation of 2,415 metres (7,923 feet)
- Description: tehsil in Jammu and Kashmir, India
- Also known as“Goorais”“Gurais”“Gurais Valley”“Gurez Tehsil”“Gurez Valley”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Taobat.
Taobat
Village
Taobat is a village in Sharda Tehsil in Neelam Valley, Azad Kashmir, Pakistan. Taobat is situated 9 km north of Gurez.
Gurez
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Latitude
34.64504° or 34° 38′ 42″ north
Longitude
74.70818° or 74° 42′ 30″ east
Open location code
8J6PJPW5+27
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OpenStreetMap feature
natural=valley
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In Other Languages
From French to Urdu—“Gurez” goes by many names.
- French: “tehsil de Gurez”
- French: “Tehsil de Gurez”
- Gujarati: “ગુરેઝ”
- Hindi: “गुरेज़”
- Japanese: “グレズ”
- Kashmiri: “گُریز وٲدی”
- Kashmiri: “گُریز وادی”
- Kashmiri: “گریز، جموں و کشمیر”
- Kashmiri: “گُریز”
- Persian: “دره گریز (جامو و کشمیر)”
- Tamil: “குரேஸ் பள்ளத்தாக்கு”
- Urdu: “گریز، جموں و کشمیر”
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