Amber
Amber or Amer, is a city near Jaipur city in Jaipur district in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It is now a part of the Jaipur Municipal Corporation. The picturesque situation of Amber at the mouth of a rocky mountain gorge, in which nestles a lake, has attracted the admiration of travellers, including Victor Jacquemont and Reginald Heber.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Gayatri Priya, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Village with 5,000 residents
- Description: city in Jaipur district, Rajasthan, India
- Also known as: “Amber, India”, “Āmer”, and “Amer, India”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Amber Fort and Jaigarh Fort.
Amber Fort
Archaeological site
Photo: Harrasis, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Amer Fort or Amber Fort is a fort located in Amer, Rajasthan, India. Amer is a town with an area of 4 square kilometres located 11 kilometres from Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan.
Jaigarh Fort
Photo: Ashwin Kumar, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Jaigarh Fort is situated on the promontory called the Cheel ka Teela of the Aravalli range; it overlooks the Amer Fort and the Maota Lake, near Amer in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jaipur.
Jaipur
Photo: Planemad, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Jaipur, also known as the Pink City, is the capital of Indian state of Rajasthan, and its largest city. The city was built in the 18th century by Sawai Jai Singh as India's first planned city, and today it's a major tourist attraction for Indians and for international visitors.
Amber
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Amber, Jaipur district, Rajasthan, Western India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
26.98883° or 26° 59′ 20″ northLongitude
75.85589° or 75° 51′ 21″ eastPopulation
5,000Elevation
407 metres (1,335 feet)Open location code
7JRQXVQ4+G9OpenStreetMap ID
node 316420607OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
1278809Wikidata ID
Q8197166
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Western Panjabi—“Amber” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Amber”
- Bengali: “আমের”
- Catalan: “Amber”
- Chinese: “阿玛尔”
- Chinese: “阿瑪爾”
- Czech: “Amber”
- Czech: “Amer”
- Dutch: “Amer”
- French: “Amber”
- German: “Amber”
- German: “Amer”
- Gujarati: “આમેર”
- Hebrew: “אמבר”
- Hindi: “आमेर”
- Japanese: “アマー”
- Japanese: “アンベール”
- Kannada: “ಅಮೇರ್”
- Kashmiri: “آمیر”
- Korean: “아메르”
- Korean: “암베르”
- Malayalam: “അമെർ, ഇന്ത്യ”
- Malayalam: “അമെർ”
- Polish: “Amber (Indie)”
- Polish: “Amber”
- Portuguese: “Amber”
- Russian: “Амбер”
- Sanskrit: “आमेर”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Amer”
- Slovenian: “Amber”
- Spanish: “Amber”
- Tamil: “அமர்”
- Tamil: “ஆம்பெர், இந்தியா”
- Telugu: “అమేర్”
- Ukrainian: “Амбер”
- Urdu: “آمیر”
- Western Panjabi: “آمیر”
- Western Panjabi: “امبر”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Government Hospital, Amer and Krishna Hospital.
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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 “Amber”. Photo: Gayatri Priya, CC BY-SA 4.0.