Kandhar
Kandhar is a town and a municipal council in Nanded district in the Indian state of Maharashtra. It lies near the western shore of Manyad Reservoir. Kandhar was famous as a major Jain centre in the Rashtrakuta kingdom, having Malkhed or Manyakheta as its capital.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Kandhar
- Type: Town with 24,800 residents
- Description: human settlement in Nanded district, Aurangabad Division, Maharashtra, India
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Nanded District, Maharashtra, Western India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
18.8718° or 18° 52′ 19″ northLongitude
77.1924° or 77° 11′ 33″ eastPopulation
24,800Elevation
429 metres (1,407 feet)Open location code
7JCVV5CR+PXOpenStreetMap ID
node 245652405OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
12684027Wikidata ID
Q2317427
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Vietnamese—“Kandhar” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “কানধার”
- Bishnupriya: “কানধার”
- Chinese: “Kandhar”
- Chinese: “坎达尔”
- Chinese: “坎達爾”
- Dutch: “Kandhar”
- French: “Kandhar”
- German: “Kandhar”
- Gujarati: “કંદહાર”
- Hindi: “कंधार (महाराष्ट्र)”
- Hindi: “कंधार, महाराष्ट्र”
- Irish: “Kandhar”
- Italian: “Kandhar”
- Japanese: “カンダール”
- Japanese: “カンドハール”
- Kannada: “ಕಂಧರ್”
- Korean: “칸다르,칸다르”
- Malay: “Kandhar”
- Marathi: “कंधार”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kandhar”
- Newari: “कन्धर”
- Portuguese: “Kandhar”
- Russian: “Кандхар”
- Spanish: “Kandahar”
- Spanish: “Kandhar”
- Tamil: “காந்தர்”
- Telugu: “కంధర్”
- Urdu: “کندھار”
- Vietnamese: “Kandhar”
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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 “Kandhar”. Photo: Glasreifen, CC BY-SA 4.0.