Alang
Alang is a census town in Bhavnagar district in the Indian state of Gujarat. Because it is home to the Alang Ship Breaking Yard, Alang beaches are considered the world's largest ship graveyard.
- Type: Town with 18,500 residents
- Description: town in Bhavnagar district, Gujarat, India
- Also known as: “Baie d’Alang” and “阿朗”
Alang
- Category: locality
- Location: Saurashtra, Gujarat, Western India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
21.3969° or 21° 23′ 49″ north
Longitude
72.1774° or 72° 10′ 39″ east
Population
18,500
Elevation
11 metres (36 feet)
UN/LOCODE
IN ALA
Open location code
7JHJ95WG+PX
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Alang” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ألانغ”
- Asturian: “Alang”
- Basque: “Alang”
- Bishnupriya: “আলং”
- Chinese: “亚兰市”
- Chinese: “亞蘭市”
- Danish: “Alang”
- Dutch: “Alang”
- Finnish: “Alang”
- French: “Alang”
- German: “Alang”
- Gujarati: “અલંગ”
- Hebrew: “אלאנג”
- Hindi: “अलांग”
- Indonesian: “Alang”
- Italian: “Alang”
- Japanese: “アラン”
- Malagasy: “Alang”
- Malay: “Alang, India”
- Malay: “Alang”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Alang”
- Minangkabau: “Alang, India”
- Minangkabau: “Alang”
- Newari: “अलंग”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Alang”
- Norwegian: “Alang”
- Persian: “الانگ”
- Portuguese: “Alang”
- Russian: “Аланг”
- Spanish: “Alang”
- Swedish: “Alang”
- Tamil: “அலங்”
- Tamil: “அலாங்”
- Thai: “อลังค์”
- Ukrainian: “Аланг”
- Urdu: “الانگ”
- Vietnamese: “Alang”
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