Gir Somnath
Gir Somnath district is a district of Gujarat, India. It is located on the southern corner of the Kathiawar peninsula with its headquarters at the city of Somnath.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: district of India with 1,220,000 residents
- Description: district in Gujarat, India
- Also known as: “Gir Somnath district”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Somnath temple and Somnath railway station.
Somnath temple
Hindu temple
Photo: B. SurajPatro1997, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Somnath Temple is a Hindu temple, located in Prabhas Patan, Veraval, in Gujarat, India. It is one of the most sacred pilgrimage sites the Tirtha Kshetra for Hindus and is the first among the twelve jyotirlinga shrines of Shiva.
Somnath railway station
Railway station
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Somnath Terminus is a terminal railway station in the city of Veraval, Gujarat. It is under Bhavnagar railway division of Western Railway zone of Indian Railways. The Somnath temple is 1.4 kilometres away from this railway station.
Veraval Junction railway station
Veraval Junction railway station is a railway station in the city of Veraval, Gujarat. It is under Bhavnagar railway division of Western Railway Zone of Indian Railways.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Veraval and Somnath.
Veraval
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Veraval-Somnath is a city on the west coast of India in the Junagadh district in the state of Gujarat. The Somnath Temple in the Prabhas Kshetra, near Veraval, is the most sacred of the twelve Jyotirlings of the God Shiva.
Gir Somnath
- Location: Gujarat, Western India, India, South Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Western Panjabi—“Gir Somnath” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “distritu de Gir Somnath”
- Asturian: “Gir Somnath (distritu)”
- Asturian: “Gir Somnath”
- Awadhi: “गीर सोमनाथ जिला”
- Bengali: “গির সোমনাথ জেলা”
- Bhojpuri: “गिर सोमनाथ जिला”
- Chinese: “吉尔索姆纳特县”
- Dutch: “district Gir Somnath”
- Finnish: “Gir-Somnathin piirikunta”
- French: “district de Somnath Gir”
- French: “District de Somnath Gir”
- German: “Distrikt Gir Somnath”
- German: “Gir Somnath”
- Gujarati: “ગીર સોમનાથ જિલ્લો”
- Hindi: “गीर सोमनाथ जिला”
- Malayalam: “ഗിർ സോംനാഥ് ജില്ല”
- Marathi: “गीर सोमनाथ जिल्हा”
- Mingrelian: “გირ-სომნატჰიშ ოლქი”
- Persian: “بخش گیر سومناته”
- Russian: “Гир-Сомнатх”
- Santali: “ᱜᱤᱨ ᱥᱚᱢᱱᱟᱛᱷ ᱦᱚᱱᱚᱛ”
- Tamil: “கிர் சோம்நாத் மாவட்டம்”
- Tamil: “கிர்சோம்நாத் மாவட்டம்”
- Telugu: “గిర్ సోమనాథ్ జిల్లా”
- Telugu: “గిర్ సోమనాథ్”
- Urdu: “گیر سومناتھ ضلع”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع گیر سومناتھ”
- “गिर सोमनाथ जिला”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Veraval Mg and Deni Barra.
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