Billawar
Billawar is a town and a notified area committee in Kathua district of the Indian Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. Billawar was founded by Raja Bhog Pal in the 7th century A.D, it was a kingdom and its capital was Basohli until the 11th century.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Kushalsharma1989, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 5,440 residents
- Description: town in Kathua District, Jammu and Kashmir, India
- Also known as: “Bilawar”
Billawar
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Kathua District, Jammu and Kashmir, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
32.6148° or 32° 36′ 53″ northLongitude
75.6033° or 75° 36′ 12″ eastPopulation
5,440Elevation
799 metres (2,621 feet)Open location code
8J4QJJ73+W8OpenStreetMap ID
node 7165839635OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
12685166Wikidata ID
Q2317175
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In Other Languages
From Bishnupriya to Vietnamese—“Billawar” goes by many names.
- Bishnupriya: “বিল্লাৱার”
- Chinese: “Billawar”
- Chinese: “比尔拉瓦尔”
- Chinese: “比爾拉瓦爾”
- Dutch: “Billawar”
- Hindi: “बिलावर”
- Irish: “Billawar”
- Italian: “Billawar”
- Malagasy: “Billawar”
- Malay: “Billawar”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Billawar”
- Newari: “बिल्लावर”
- Portuguese: “Billawar”
- Spanish: “Billawar”
- Urdu: “بلاور”
- Vietnamese: “Billawar”
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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 “Billawar”. Photo: Kushalsharma1989, CC BY-SA 4.0.