Akhnoor
Akhnoor is a town and municipal committee, near city of Jammu in Jammu district of Indian union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. It lies 28 km away from Jammu city.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Town with 20,800 residents
- Description: city in Jammu and Kashmir, India
- Also known as: “Akhnur”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Akhnoor Fort.
Akhnoor Fort
Fort
Photo: Illyaschowdhary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Akhnoor Fort is a fort on the right bank of the Chenab River, 28 km from Jammu City. Construction of the fort was started by Raja Tej Singh in 1762 CE and completed by his successor Raja Dhian Singh in 1802.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Khairi.
Khairi
Village
Khairi is a village of Tehsil Mirpur, Pakistan. It is split into Upper Khairi and Lower Khairi and has the population of around 300. The surrounding villages are called Sarthalla, Mehra and Muri. Khairi is situated 9 km southwest of Akhnoor.
Akhnoor
- Categories: city, human settlement, and locality
- Location: Bhalwal, Jammu district, Jammu and Kashmir, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
32.90195° or 32° 54′ 7″ northLongitude
74.73474° or 74° 44′ 5″ eastPopulation
20,800Elevation
311 metres (1,020 feet)Open location code
8J4PWP2M+QVOpenStreetMap ID
node 6786695057OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1279126Wikidata ID
Q590115
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Western Panjabi—“Akhnoor” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Akhnoor”
- Bishnupriya: “আখনুর”
- Cebuano: “Akhnūr”
- Chinese: “Akhnoor”
- Chinese: “阿克诺奥尔”
- Chinese: “阿克諾奧爾”
- Dutch: “Akhnoor”
- Dutch: “Akhnūr”
- French: “Akhnoor”
- German: “Akhnoor”
- Greek: “Ακχνούρ”
- Greek: “Αχνούρ”
- Hindi: “अखनूर”
- Irish: “Akhnoor”
- Italian: “Akhnoor”
- Kashmiri: “اکھنور”
- Kashmiri: “اَکھنوٗر”
- Ladin: “Akhnoor”
- Malagasy: “Akhnoor”
- Malay: “Akhnoor”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Akhnoor”
- Minangkabau: “Akhnoor”
- Newari: “अखनूर”
- Panjabi: “ਅਖਨੂਰ”
- Persian: “اخنور”
- Portuguese: “Akhnoor”
- Swedish: “Akhnūr”
- Tamil: “அக்னூர்”
- Urdu: “اکھنور”
- Vietnamese: “Akhnoor”
- Western Panjabi: “اکھنور”
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