Ghat
Ghat, a term used in the Indian subcontinent, to refer to the series of steps leading down to a body of water or wharf, such as a bathing or cremation place along the banks of a river or pond, the Ghats in Varanasi, Dhobi Ghat or the Aapravasi Ghat.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Oasis
- Description: series of steps leading down to a body of water, particularly a holy river in South Asia
- Also known as: “Gat”, “ghat”, “Ghāt”, “ghats”, and “Rhat”
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Ghat
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Ghat is the capital of the Ghat District in the Fezzan region of southwestern Libya, located just east of the Algerian border.
Ghat
- Category: architectural structure
- Location: Ghat District, Libya, North Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Ghat” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Ghat”
- Albanian: “Ghatet”
- Arabic: “غات”
- Bengali: “ঘাট”
- Bhojpuri: “घाट”
- Catalan: “Ghat (hinduisme)”
- Catalan: “Ghat”
- Chinese: “河坛”
- Chinese: “河壇”
- Dutch: “Ghat”
- Finnish: “Ghat (portaikko)”
- Finnish: “Ghat”
- French: “Ghat”
- French: “Ghât”
- French: “Ghats”
- French: “Ghatte”
- French: “Ghattes”
- German: “Ghat (Indien)”
- German: “Ghat”
- German: “Ghats”
- Hebrew: “גהאט”
- Hindi: “घाट”
- Hungarian: “Ghatok”
- Hungarian: “Ghátok”
- Italian: “Ghat”
- Italian: “Ghats”
- Japanese: “ガート”
- Kannada: “ಸ್ನಾನಘಟ್ಟ”
- Korean: “가트 (지리)”
- Korean: “가트”
- Lithuanian: “Ghatas”
- Polish: “Ghaty”
- Portuguese: “Ghat”
- Russian: “Гхат”
- Russian: “Гхаты”
- Slovenian: “ghat”
- Spanish: “ghat (balneario)”
- Spanish: “ghat (hindi)”
- Spanish: “ghat”
- Spanish: “Ghat”
- Spanish: “ghates”
- Spanish: “ghats (hinduismo)”
- Spanish: “ghats”
- Swedish: “Ghat”
- Swedish: “Ghats”
- Swedish: “Ghatsbergen”
- Swedish: “Östra Ghats”
- Tamil: “படித்துறை”
- Telugu: “ఘాట్”
- Thai: “ฆาฏ”
- Ukrainian: “Ґгат”
- Ukrainian: “Гхат”
- Ukrainian: “Ґхат”
- Western Panjabi: “گھاٹ”
- “घाट”
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