Amritsar
Amritsar district is one of the twenty three districts that make up the Indian state of Punjab. Located in the Majha region of Punjab, the city of Amritsar is the headquarters of this district.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: district of India with 2,490,000 residents
- Description: district in Punjab, India
- Also known as: “Amritsar district” and “Amritsar District”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport and Amritsar Junction railway station.
Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport
Aerodrome
Sri Guru Ram Das Ji International Airport is an international airport serving Amritsar, Punjab, India. It is located at Raja Sansi, 11 km northwest from the city centre. Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport is situated 6 km northwest of Amritsar.
Amritsar Junction railway station
Railway station
Amritsar Central Railway Station is a railway located in Amritsar district in the Indian state of Punjab and serves Amritsar. It is the largest and busiest railway station of Punjab. Amritsar Junction railway station is situated 5 km southeast of Amritsar.
Gobindgarh Fort
Photo: Harvinder Chandigarh, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Gobindgarh Fort is a historic military fort located in the center of the city of Amritsar in the Indian state of Punjab. The Fort was until recently under the Indian Army, but was opened to the public on 10 February 2017. Gobindgarh Fort is situated 5 km south of Amritsar.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Amritsar and Rajasansi.
Amritsar
Photo: Birka, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Amritsar is a city in the state of Punjab, India. It is the holiest city in the Sikh religion. Amritsar is one of the largest cities in the Indian state of Punjab and is the spiritual and cultural centre of the Sikh religion.
Rajasansi
Village
Rajasansi is a town, near Amritsar city and a nagar panchayat in Amritsar district in the Indian state of Punjab. Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport is located in Rajasansi village on Ajnala-Rajasansi Road. Rajasansi is situated 7 km northwest of Amritsar.
Amritsar
- Location: Punjab, Plains, India, South Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Amritsar” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “منطقة أمريتسار”
- Arabic: “منطقة امريتسار”
- Armenian: “Ամրիթսար”
- Asturian: “Amritsar (distritu)”
- Asturian: “Amritsar”
- Asturian: “distritu d’Amritsar”
- Basque: “Amritsar barrutia”
- Bengali: “অমৃতসর জেলা”
- Bhojpuri: “अमृतसर जिला”
- Bhojpuri: “अमृतसर जिल्ला”
- Catalan: “districte d’Amritsar”
- Catalan: “Districte d’Amritsar”
- Cebuano: “Amritsar”
- Chinese: “Amritsar”
- Chinese: “阿姆利则县”
- Chinese: “阿姆利則縣”
- Dutch: “Amritsar”
- Egyptian Arabic: “امريتسار”
- Finnish: “Amritsarin piirikunta”
- French: “district d’Amritsar”
- French: “District d’Amritsar”
- Galician: “distrito de Amritsar”
- German: “Amritsar”
- Greek: “Περιφέρεια Αμριτσάρ”
- Gujarati: “અમૃતસર જિલ્લો”
- Hebrew: “מחוז אמריטסר”
- Hindi: “अमृतसर जिला”
- Italian: “distretto di Amritsar”
- Italian: “Distretto di Amritsar”
- Japanese: “アムリトサル県”
- Kannada: “ಅಮೃತಸರ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ”
- Maithili: “अमृतसर जिल्ला”
- Malayalam: “അമൃത്സർ ജില്ല”
- Malayalam: “അമൃത്സർ ജില്ല”
- Marathi: “अमृतसर जिल्हा”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Amritsar”
- Mingrelian: “ამრიტსარიშ ოლქი”
- Nepali: “अमृतसर जिल्ला”
- Newari: “अमृतसर जिल्ला”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Amritsar”
- Norwegian: “Amritsar”
- Oriya: “ଅମୃତସର ଜିଲ୍ଲା”
- Panjabi: “ਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤਸਰ ਜ਼ਿਲ੍ਹਾ”
- Persian: “بخش امریتسار”
- Persian: “شهرستان امریتسار”
- Polish: “Amritsar”
- Russian: “Амритсар”
- Sanskrit: “अमृतसरमण्डलम्”
- Santali: “ᱟᱢᱨᱤᱛᱥᱚᱨ ᱦᱚᱱᱚᱛ”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Amritsar”
- Swedish: “Amritsar”
- Tamil: “அமிர்தசரஸ் மாவட்டம்”
- Telugu: “అమృత్సర్ జిల్లా”
- Thai: “อำเภออมฤตสระ”
- Ukrainian: “Амрітсар”
- Urdu: “ضلع امرتسر”
- Uzbek: “Amritsar tumani”
- Vietnamese: “Amritsar”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع امبرسر”
- “अमृतसर जिला”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Fort Govindgarh and Durgiana Temple.
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