Auroville

Auroville is a small town 6 km north of Pondicherry. This town was a vision of The Mother from Sri Aurobindo Ashram at Pondicherry as it's an international town.
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  • Type: Town with 2,000 residents
  • Description: experimental universal township in South India
  • Also known as: “city of dawn”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Matrimandir.

Place of worship
Photo: KalkiRaj, CC0.
The is an edifice of spiritual significance for practitioners of integral yoga in the centre of Auroville, India established by Mirra Alfassa of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Auroville's spiritual co-founder, known to her followers as The Mother or La Mère.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Irumbai.

Village
Photo: Ssriram mt, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a village situated next to Auroville in the Indian state of , and at about 10 km from Pondicherry.

Auroville

Latitude
12.0074° or 12° 0′ 27″ north
Longitude
79.8099° or 79° 48′ 36″ east
Population
2,000
Elevation
55 metres (180 feet)
Open location code
7J4X2R45+XX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 315137869
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
6620455
Wiki­data ID
Q590361
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Auroville” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أوروفيل”
  • Armenian: “Auroville”
  • Armenian: “Աուրովիլ”
  • Asturian: “Auroville”
  • Basque: “Auroville”
  • Bavarian: “Auroville”
  • Belarusian: “Аўравіль”
  • Bengali: “অরোভিল”
  • Bulgarian: “Аuroville”
  • Bulgarian: “Ауровил”
  • Catalan: “Auroville”
  • Cebuano: “Auroville”
  • Chinese: “Auroville”
  • Chinese: “印度曙光之城”
  • Chinese: “印度曙光村”
  • Chinese: “印度黎明之村”
  • Chinese: “地球村”
  • Chinese: “奧羅賓多城”
  • Chinese: “曙光之城”
  • Chinese: “曙光村”
  • Chinese: “阿羅頻多城”
  • Chinese: “黎明之城”
  • Chinese: “黎明之村”
  • Czech: “Auroville”
  • Dutch: “Auroville”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اوروفيل”
  • Esperanto: “Aŭrorurbo”
  • Esperanto: “Aŭrourbo”
  • Esperanto: “Auroville”
  • Esperanto: “Aŭrovilo”
  • French: “Auroville”
  • Galician: “Auroville”
  • Georgian: “Auroville”
  • Georgian: “აუროვილი”
  • German: “Auroville”
  • Greek: “Auroville”
  • Greek: “Όρβιλ”
  • Hebrew: “Auroville”
  • Hebrew: “אורוויל”
  • Hindi: “ओरोविल”
  • Hungarian: “Auroville”
  • Italian: “Auroville”
  • Japanese: “Auroville”
  • Japanese: “オーロヴィル”
  • Kannada: “ಆರೋವಿಲ್”
  • Kashmiri: “اوروویل”
  • Ladin: “Auroville”
  • Lithuanian: “Aurovilis”
  • Malayalam: “Auroville”
  • Malayalam: “ഓറോവിൽ”
  • Marathi: “उषानगरी”
  • Marathi: “ऑरोविल”
  • Marathi: “ऑरोव्हिल”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Auroville”
  • Norwegian: “Auroville”
  • Panjabi: “ਔਰੋਵਿਲ”
  • Polish: “Auroville”
  • Portuguese: “Auroville”
  • Romanian: “Auroville”
  • Russian: “Auroville”
  • Russian: “Ауровиль”
  • Sanskrit: “Auroville”
  • Sanskrit: “अरोविले”
  • Slovenian: “Auroville”
  • Spanish: “Auroville”
  • Swedish: “Auroville”
  • Tamil: “Auroville”
  • Tamil: “அயுரோவில்”
  • Tamil: “ஆரோவில்”
  • Telugu: “Auroville”
  • Telugu: “ఆరోవిల్”
  • Turkish: “Auroville”
  • Turkish: “Işık Kenti”
  • Turkish: “Işık Şehri”
  • Turkish: “Şafak Kenti”
  • Turkish: “Şafak Şehri”
  • Ukrainian: “Auroville”
  • Ukrainian: “Ауровіль”
  • Urdu: “اوروویل”
  • Western Panjabi: “اوروویل”
  • “Auroville”

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