Agra

Agra, a city around 200 km from , is home to two UNESCO World Heritage Sites: the Taj Mahal and the Agra Fort. There are also many other buildings and tombs from Agra's days of glory as the capital of the Mughal Empire, as well as the abandoned city of outside town, itself a World Heritage Site.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Taj Mahal and City and Fort.

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The is the incomparable marble tomb at Agra in northern . It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the Seven Wonders of the World. No trip to India is complete without at least one visit to the Taj.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Agra’s Red Fort and Tomb of I’timād-ud-Daulah.

Fort
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The Agra Fort is a historical Mughal fort in the city of Agra, also known as Agra's Red Fort. Mughal emperor Humayun was crowned at this fort in 1530. It was later renovated by the Mughal emperor Akbar from 1565 and the present-day structure was completed in 1573.

Archaeological site
Photo: Muhammad Mahdi Karim, GFDL.
Tomb of I'timād-ud-Daulah is a Mughal mausoleum in the city of Agra in the state of . Often described as a "jewel box", sometimes called the Bachcha Taj or the Baby Taj, the tomb of I'timād-ud-Daulah is regarded as a model for the .

Mosque
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The Jama Mosque is a 17th-century congregational mosque located in the historic core of Agra, . It was built by Jahanara Begum, the eldest daughter of Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan, during the latter's reign.

Agra

Latitude
27.1753° or 27° 10′ 31″ north
Longitude
78.0098° or 78° 0′ 35″ east
Population
1,500,000
Elevation
166 metres (545 feet)
IATA airport code
AGR
United Nations Location Code
IN AGR
Open location code
7JVW52G5+4W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 567267943
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1279259
Wiki­data ID
Q42941
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Agra” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Agra”
  • Albanian: “Agra”
  • Arabic: “آغرة”
  • Arabic: “آكرة”
  • Arabic: “أجرة”
  • Arabic: “أجره”
  • Arabic: “أغرة”
  • Aragonese: “Agra”
  • Armenian: “Ագրա”
  • Assamese: “আগ্ৰা”
  • Asturian: “Agra”
  • Awadhi: “आगरा”
  • Azerbaijani: “Aqra”
  • Basque: “Agra”
  • Belarusian: “Агра”
  • Bengali: “آگرا”
  • Bengali: “आगरा”
  • Bengali: “আগ্রা”
  • Bhojpuri: “आगरा”
  • Bishnupriya: “আগ্রা”
  • Bulgarian: “Агра”
  • Burmese: “အာဂရာမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Agra”
  • Catalan: “Akbarabad”
  • Cebuano: “Āgra (kapital sa distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Āgra”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئاگرە”
  • Chechen: “Агра”
  • Chinese: “Agra”
  • Chinese: “亞格拉”
  • Chinese: “阿格拉”
  • Croatian: “Agra”
  • Czech: “Ágra”
  • Danish: “Agra”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Agra”
  • Dotyali: “आगरा”
  • Dutch: “Agra”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اجرا”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اجره”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مدينه اجره”
  • Esperanto: “Agra”
  • Esperanto: “Agro”
  • Estonian: “Agra”
  • Estonian: “Āgra”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Agra”
  • Finnish: “Agra”
  • French: “Agra”
  • French: “Âgrâ”
  • French: “Āgrā”
  • Galician: “Agra, India”
  • Galician: “Agra”
  • Galician: “आगरा”
  • Georgian: “აგრა”
  • German: “Agra”
  • Goan Konkani: “Agra”
  • Goan Konkani: “आग्रा”
  • Greek: “Άγκρα”
  • Guarani: “Ágara”
  • Gujarati: “આગ્રા”
  • Hausa: “Agra”
  • Hebrew: “אגרה והטאג’ מהאל”
  • Hebrew: “אגרה”
  • Hindi: “आगरा”
  • Hindi: “ताज का शहर”
  • Hungarian: “Agra”
  • Indonesian: “Agra”
  • Irish: “Agra”
  • Italian: “Agra”
  • Japanese: “アーグラ”
  • Japanese: “アーグラー”
  • Japanese: “アグラ”
  • Kannada: “ಆಗ್ರಾ”
  • Kannada: “ಭಾರತ”
  • Kashmiri: “آگرہ”
  • Kazakh: “Агра”
  • Kirghiz: “Агра”
  • Komering: “Agra”
  • Korean: “아그라”
  • Ladin: “Agra”
  • Latin: “Agra”
  • Latvian: “Āgra”
  • Lithuanian: “Agra”
  • Lombard: “Agra”
  • Luxembourgish: “Agra”
  • Macedonian: “Агра”
  • Maithili: “आगरा”
  • Malay: “Agra”
  • Malayalam: “Agra”
  • Malayalam: “ആഗ്ര”
  • Marathi: “आग्रा”
  • Mazanderani: “آگرا”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Agra”
  • Minangkabau: “Agra, Agra, M.Corp.”
  • Mingrelian: “აგრა”
  • Mongolian: “Агра”
  • Nepali: “आगरा”
  • Newari: “आगरा”
  • Newari: “आग्रा”
  • Northern Frisian: “Agra”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Agra”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Agra”
  • Norwegian: “Agra”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Agra”
  • Oriya: “ଆଗ୍ରା”
  • Ossetian: “Агрæ”
  • Pampanga: “Agra”
  • Panjabi: “ਆਗਰਾ”
  • Persian: “آگرا”
  • Persian: “آگره”
  • Persian: “اگرا”
  • Persian: “اگره”
  • Piemontese: “Agra”
  • Polish: “Agra”
  • Portuguese: “Agra”
  • Pushto: “آګرا”
  • Pushto: “آگره”
  • Pushto: “اګرا”
  • Pushto: “اګره”
  • Romanian: “Agra”
  • Russian: “Агра”
  • Sanskrit: “आग्रा”
  • Santali: “ᱛᱟᱡᱽ ᱥᱚᱦᱚᱨ”
  • Santali: “ᱟᱜᱽᱨᱟ”
  • Saraiki: “آگرہ”
  • Scots: “Agra”
  • Serbian: “Агра”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Agra”
  • Silesian: “Agra”
  • Sindhi: “آگرو”
  • Sinhala: “අග්‍රා”
  • Slovak: “Ágra”
  • Slovenian: “Agra, Indija”
  • Slovenian: “Agra”
  • South Azerbaijani: “آقرا”
  • Spanish: “Agra”
  • Spanish: “Āgra”
  • Sundanese: “Agra”
  • Swahili: “Agra”
  • Swedish: “Agra”
  • Tagalog: “Agra”
  • Tagalog: “Āgrā”
  • Tagalog: “Lungsod ng Agra”
  • Tajik: “Агра”
  • Talysh: “Agra”
  • Tamil: “ஆக்ரா”
  • Tatar: “Agra”
  • Telugu: “ఆగ్రా జిల్లా”
  • Telugu: “ఆగ్రా”
  • Thai: “อาครา”
  • Turkish: “Agra”
  • Twi: “Agra”
  • Ukrainian: “Агра”
  • Ukrainian: “Аґра”
  • Urdu: “آگرہ”
  • Uzbek: “Agra”
  • Venetian: “Agra”
  • Vietnamese: “Agra”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Agra”
  • Welsh: “Agra”
  • Western Armenian: “Ակրա”
  • Western Frisian: “Agra”
  • Western Panjabi: “آگرا”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿格拉”
  • Yakut: “Агра”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿格拉”
  • “आगरा”

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