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Banka

Banka

Banka is a city and a municipality serving as district headquarters. The city is historically very important because of Mandar Hill where Samudra Manthan has been occurred by Hindu rituals.
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  • Type: Town with 5,000 residents
  • Description: city and a municipality in Bihar, India
  • Also known as: “Banka, Bihar” and “Bhagalpur”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Banka Junction railway station.

Railway station
is the biggest railway station of Banka district, Bihar and serves the city of Banka. It falls under the Malda railway division of the Eastern Railway zone of the Indian Railways.

Banka

Latitude
24.88108° or 24° 52′ 52″ north
Longitude
86.91977° or 86° 55′ 11″ east
Population
5,000
Elevation
85 metres (279 feet)
Open location code
7MP8VWJ9+CW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 245727260
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1277289
Wiki­data ID
Q1609246
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Angika to Vietnamese—“Banka” goes by many names.
  • Angika: “बांका”
  • Arabic: “بانكا”
  • Assamese: “বাঁকা, বিহাৰ”
  • Assamese: “বাঁকা”
  • Bengali: “বাঁকা”
  • Bhojpuri: “बाँका”
  • Bishnupriya: “বানকা”
  • Catalan: “Banka”
  • Cebuano: “Bānka”
  • Chinese: “班卡”
  • Dutch: “Banka”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بانكا”
  • German: “Banka”
  • Hindi: “बाँका जिला”
  • Hindi: “बाँका”
  • Hindi: “बांका”
  • Hindi: “सीतामढी”
  • Irish: “Banka”
  • Italian: “Banka”
  • Japanese: “バンカ”
  • Kashmiri: “بانکا، بہار”
  • Malay: “Banka”
  • Marathi: “बांका”
  • Nepali: “बाँका”
  • Newari: “बांका”
  • Oriya: “ବାଙ୍କା, ବିହାର”
  • Oriya: “ବାଙ୍କା”
  • Portuguese: “Banka”
  • Santali: “ᱵᱟᱸᱠᱟ, ᱵᱤᱦᱟᱨ”
  • Santali: “ᱵᱟᱸᱠᱟ”
  • Spanish: “Banka”
  • Swedish: “Bānka”
  • Tamil: “பாங்கா”
  • Telugu: “బంకా”
  • Urdu: “بانکا، بہار”
  • Urdu: “بانکا”
  • Vietnamese: “Banka”
  • “बाँका”

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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 “Banka”. Photo: Hshook, CC BY-SA 4.0.