Garhwāl District
Garhwal District is a former district in Kumaon of British India of the United Provinces, and had an area of 5,629 sq mi. It later became a part of the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, today it is part of the Indian state Uttarakhand.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: County with 687,000 residents
- Description: former district of Uttarakhand in India
- Also known as: “Garhwal”, “Garhwāl”, “Garhwal District”, “Midnapore district”, and “Pauri Garhwal”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nandaprayag.
Nandaprayag
Town
Photo: Fowler&fowler, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Nandaprayag is a town and a nagar panchayat in Chamoli district in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. Nandaprayag is one of the Panch Prayag of Alaknanda River and lies at the confluence of the Alaknanda River and Nandakini River.
Garhwāl District
- Categories: district of British India, district of India, former administrative territorial entity, and locality
- Location: Uttarakhand, Himalayan North, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
30.25° or 30° 15′ northLongitude
79.3333° or 79° 20′ eastPopulation
687,000Elevation
1,469 metres (4,820 feet)Abbreviation
“PGR”Open location code
8J2X782M+28OpenStreetMap ID
node 316417405OpenStreetMap feature
place=county
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Ukrainian—“Garhwāl District” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “গাড়োয়াল জেলা”
- Catalan: “districte de Garhwal”
- Catalan: “Districte de Garhwal”
- Chinese: “格尔瓦县”
- Chinese: “格爾瓦縣”
- Gujarati: “ગઢવાલ જિલ્લો”
- Hindi: “गढ़वाल जिला”
- Malayalam: “മിഡ്നാപൂർ ജില്ല”
- Russian: “Гархвал (округ)”
- Russian: “Гархвал”
- Santali: “ᱜᱟᱲᱣᱟᱞ ᱦᱚᱱᱚᱛ”
- Tamil: “கார்வால் மாவட்டம்”
- Ukrainian: “Ґархвал (округ)”
- Ukrainian: “Гархвал”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Sunbhi and Bhatiyana.
Notable Places Nearby
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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 “Garhwāl District”. Photo: Himanshu Punetha, CC BY 2.0.