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Amritsar

Amritsar is a city in the state of , . It is the holiest city in the Sikh religion. Amritsar is one of the largest cities in the Indian state of Punjab and is the spiritual and cultural centre of the Sikh religion.
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  • Type: City with 1,130,000 residents
  • Description: city in the north-western part of Punjab, India
  • Also known as: “Ambarsar”, “Amritsar (India)”, and “Rāmdāspur”
Photo: Shagil Kannur, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Golden Temple and Jallianwala Bagh.

Gurdwara
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The is a gurdwara located in Amritsar, . It is the pre-eminent spiritual site of Sikhism. It is one of the holiest sites in Sikhism, alongside the in , and in .

Park
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is a historic garden and memorial of national importance close to the Golden Temple complex in Amritsar, , India, preserved in the memory of those wounded and killed in the Massacre that took place on the site on the festival of Baisakhi Day, 13 April 1919.

Gurdwara
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The , also spelt as Akal Takhat and historically known as Akal Bunga, is the most prominent of the five takhts of the Sikhs. Located within the complex in Amritsar, , it was established by Guru Hargobind in 1606 as a place to uphold justice and address temporal matters.

Amritsar

Latitude
31.6357° or 31° 38′ 8″ north
Longitude
74.8788° or 74° 52′ 44″ east
Population
1,130,000
Elevation
244 metres (801 feet)
IATA airport code
ATQ
United Nations Location Code
IN ATQ
Open location code
8J3PJVPH+7F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 245772397
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1278710
Wiki­data ID
Q48403
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Amritsar” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Amritsar”
  • Arabic: “أمرتسر”
  • Arabic: “أَمْرِتْسَرُ”
  • Arabic: “أمريتسار”
  • Armenian: “Ամրիթսար”
  • Armenian: “Ամրիտսար”
  • Asturian: “Amritsar”
  • Azerbaijani: “Amritsar”
  • Basque: “Amritsar”
  • Belarusian: “Амрытсар”
  • Bengali: “অমৃতসর”
  • Bengali: “ਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤਸਰ”
  • Bhojpuri: “अमृतसर”
  • Bishnupriya: “অমৃতসর”
  • Bulgarian: “Амритсар”
  • Catalan: “Amritsar”
  • Cebuano: “Amritsar”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئامریتسار”
  • Chechen: “Амритсар”
  • Chinese: “Amritsar”
  • Chinese: “安姆利沙”
  • Chinese: “阿姆利则”
  • Chinese: “阿姆利则萨尔”
  • Chinese: “阿姆利則”
  • Chinese: “阿木里查”
  • Czech: “Amritsar (India)”
  • Czech: “Amritsar”
  • Danish: “Amritsar”
  • Dutch: “Amritsar”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “امريتسار”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مدينه امريتسار”
  • Esperanto: “Amricaro”
  • Esperanto: “Amritsar”
  • Estonian: “Amritsar”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Amritsar”
  • Finnish: “Amritsar”
  • French: “Amritsar”
  • Galician: “Amritsar”
  • Georgian: “ამრიტსარი”
  • German: “Ambarsar”
  • German: “Amrita Saras”
  • German: “Amritsar (India)”
  • German: “Amritsar”
  • Goan Konkani: “Amritsar”
  • Goan Konkani: “अमृतसर”
  • Goan Konkani: “अमृतसरः”
  • Greek: “Αμριτσάρ”
  • Gujarati: “અમૃતસર”
  • Hebrew: “אמריטסר”
  • Hebrew: “אמריצר”
  • Hindi: “अमृतसर”
  • Hungarian: “Amritszár”
  • Icelandic: “Amritsar”
  • Indonesian: “Amritsar”
  • Irish: “Amritsar”
  • Italian: “Amritsar”
  • Japanese: “アムリツァル”
  • Japanese: “アムリッツァー”
  • Japanese: “アムリッツァル”
  • Japanese: “アムリットサル”
  • Japanese: “アムリトサル”
  • Javanese: “Amritsar”
  • Kannada: “ಅಮೃತಸರ”
  • Kannada: “ಅಮೃತಸರ್”
  • Kannada: “ಅಮೃತ್‌ಸರ್”
  • Kashmiri: “امرتسر”
  • Kashmiri: “اَمرِتسَر”
  • Kazakh: “Амритсар”
  • Kirghiz: “Амритсар”
  • Korean: “암리차르”
  • Kurdish: “Amritsar”
  • Kurdish: “Amrîtsar”
  • Ladin: “Amritsar”
  • Latvian: “Ambarsara”
  • Latvian: “Amritsar”
  • Latvian: “Amritsara”
  • Latvian: “Rāmdāspura”
  • Lithuanian: “Amritsaras”
  • Luxembourgish: “Amritsar”
  • Macedonian: “Амрицар”
  • Maithili: “अमृतसर”
  • Malagasy: “Amritsar”
  • Malay: “Amritsar”
  • Malayalam: “Amritsar”
  • Malayalam: “അമൃതസരസ്സ്”
  • Malayalam: “അമൃതസർ”
  • Malayalam: “അമൃത് സർ”
  • Malayalam: “അമൃത്സർ”
  • Malayalam: “അമൃത്‌സർ”
  • Marathi: “अमृतसर”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Amritsar”
  • Mingrelian: “ამრიტსარი”
  • Nepali: “अमृतसर”
  • Newari: “अमृतसर”
  • Northern Frisian: “Amritsar”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Amritsar”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Amritsar”
  • Norwegian: “Amritsar”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Amritsar”
  • Oriya: “ଅମୃତସର”
  • Ossetian: “Амритсар”
  • Pampanga: “Amritsar”
  • Panjabi: “ਅੰਬਰਸਰ”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਮ੍ਰਿਤਸਰ”
  • Panjabi: “ਅੰਮ੍ਰਿਤਸਰ”
  • Panjabi: “ਗੁਰੂ ਰਾਮਦਾਸ ਦੀ ਨਗਰੀ”
  • Panjabi: “ਰਾਮਦਾਸਪੁਰ”
  • Persian: “آمریتسار”
  • Persian: “امریتسار”
  • Polish: “Amritsar”
  • Portuguese: “Amritsar”
  • Pushto: “امرتسر”
  • Pushto: “امريتسر”
  • Romanian: “Amritsar”
  • Russia Buriat: “Амритсар”
  • Russian: “Амритсар”
  • Sanskrit: “अमृतसर”
  • Santali: “ᱟᱢᱨᱤᱛᱥᱚᱨ”
  • Santali: “ᱟᱢᱵᱟᱨᱥᱚᱨ”
  • Santali: “ᱨᱟᱢᱫᱟᱥᱯᱩᱨ”
  • Saraiki: “امرتسر”
  • Scots: “Amritsar”
  • Serbian: “Amritsar”
  • Serbian: “Амрицар”
  • Sindhi: “امرتسر”
  • Sinhala: “අම්රිට්සාර්”
  • Slovak: “Amritsar”
  • Slovenian: “Amritsar”
  • South Azerbaijani: “امریتسار”
  • Spanish: “Amritsar”
  • Spanish: “Ramdaspur”
  • Swahili: “Amritsar”
  • Swedish: “Amritsar”
  • Talysh: “Amritsar”
  • Tamil: “அமிருதசரசு”
  • Tamil: “அமிர்தசரஸ்”
  • Tamil: “அம்ரிதசரசு”
  • Tamil: “அம்ரித்சர்”
  • Telugu: “అమృత్ సర్”
  • Telugu: “అమృత్‌సర్‌”
  • Telugu: “అమృత్‌సర్”
  • Thai: “อมฤตสระ”
  • Turkish: “Amritsar”
  • Ukrainian: “Амритсар”
  • Ukrainian: “Амрітсар”
  • Urdu: “امبرسر”
  • Urdu: “امرتسر”
  • Uzbek: “Amritsar”
  • Venetian: “Amritsar”
  • Vietnamese: “Amritsar”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Amritsar”
  • Welsh: “Amritsar”
  • Western Panjabi: “امبرسر”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿姆利则”
  • Yue Chinese: “阿姆利則”
  • “अमृतसर”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Amritsar”. Photo: Birka, CC BY-SA 3.0.