Agra
Agra is the city of the Taj Mahal, in the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, around 200 km from Delhi. It is home to three UNESCO World Heritage sites, the Taj Mahal and the Agra Fort in the city and Fatehpur Sikri, 40 km away.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 1,500,000 residents
- Description: city in Uttar Pradesh, India
- Also known as: “Agra, India” and “Agrah”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Agra Fort and Agra Fort.
Agra Fort
Monument
Photo: Mohdahasan93, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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.
Agra Fort
Railway station
Photo: Bahnfrend, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Agra Fort railway station, is located near Agra Fort, in Rawatpara, Agra. It used to be one of the stations in India that had both broad gauge and metre gauge, until the line to Jaipur was converted to broad gauge.
Equestrian statue
Monument
Photo: Dharmadhyaksha, CC BY-SA 3.0.
An equestrian statue is a statue of a rider mounted on a horse, from the Latin eques, meaning 'knight', deriving from equus, meaning 'horse'. A statue of a riderless horse is strictly an equine statue.
Agra
- Categories: big city, human settlement, former capital, and locality
- Location: Agra, Doab, Uttar Pradesh, Plains, India, South Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
27.1753° or 27° 10′ 31″ northLongitude
78.0098° or 78° 0′ 35″ eastPopulation
1,500,000Elevation
166 metres (545 feet)IATA airport code
AGRUnited Nations Location Code
IN AGROpen location code
7JVW52G5+4WOpenStreetMap ID
node 567267943OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1279259Wikidata 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”
- 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 Panjabi: “آگرا”
- Wu Chinese: “阿格拉”
- Yakut: “Агра”
- Yue Chinese: “阿格拉”
- “आगरा”
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