Dighwara
Dighwara is a town and a Nagar Panchayat in the Saran district, state of Bihar, India. The name probably derives from 'Dirgh-dwar', literally "large gate", as Dighwara is claimed to be the entrance to the mythological city of king Daksha.- Type: Town with 32,700 residents
- Description: human settlement
- Also known as: “Digha”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Dighwara railway station.
Dighwara
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Dighwara, Saran, Bihar, Plains, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
25.74345° or 25° 44′ 36″ north
Longitude
85.00104° or 85° 0′ 4″ east
Population
32,700
Elevation
59 metres (194 feet)
Open location code
7MQ7P2V2+9C
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Vietnamese—“Dighwara” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “দিগওয়ারা”
- Bishnupriya: “দিগৱারা”
- Cebuano: “Dighwāra”
- Chinese: “迪格瓦拉”
- Dutch: “Dighwara”
- Hindi: “दिघवारा”
- Irish: “Dighwara”
- Italian: “Dighwara”
- Malagasy: “Dighwara”
- Malay: “Dighwara”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Dighwara”
- Newari: “दिघ्वारा”
- Portuguese: “Dighwara”
- Spanish: “Dighwara”
- Swedish: “Dighwāra”
- Vietnamese: “Dighwara”
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