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Ayodhya

Ayodhya is an ancient city in the region of the state of . Ayodhya is one of the major holy cities of Hinduism. It has a central role in the ancient Indian epic, the Ramayana, whose protagonist Lord Rama is God incarnated on Earth as the prince of Ayodhya.
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  • Type: City with 55,700 residents
  • Description: City in Uttar Pradesh, India
  • Also known as: “Oudh”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ram Mandir and Ram Janmabhoomi.

Hindu temple
The , also known as Shri Ramlalla Mandir, is a partially constructed in Ayodhya, , India. Many Hindus believe that it is located at the site of , the mythical birthplace of Rama, a principal deity of Hinduism.

Hindu temple
is the site that, according to Hindu religious beliefs, is the birthplace of Rama, the seventh avatar of the Hindu deity Vishnu. The Ramayana states that the location of Rama's birthplace is on the banks of the Sarayu river in a city called "Ayodhya".

Railway station
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, officially named as Ayodhya Dham Junction railway station, is a railway station in the city of Ayodhya in the state of , .

Ayodhya

Latitude
26.7991° or 26° 47′ 57″ north
Longitude
82.2052° or 82° 12′ 19″ east
Population
55,700
Elevation
102 metres (335 feet)
IATA airport code
AYJ
Open location code
7MR4Q6X4+J3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 245753026
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1278094
Wiki­data ID
Q186040
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Ayodhya” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Ajodhja”
  • Albanian: “Ayodhya”
  • Angika: “अयोध्या”
  • Arabic: “أيوديا”
  • Armenian: “Այոդյա”
  • Armenian: “Հնագույն քաղաք Հնդկաստանում”
  • Asturian: “Ayodhya”
  • Awadhi: “अयोध्या”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ayodxya”
  • Basque: “Ayodhya”
  • Bengali: “অযোধ্যা”
  • Bhojpuri: “अयोध्या”
  • Bishnupriya: “অযোধ্যা”
  • Bulgarian: “Айодхя”
  • Catalan: “Ajodhya”
  • Catalan: “Ayodhia”
  • Catalan: “Ayodhya”
  • Cebuano: “Ayodhya”
  • Chinese: “Ayodhya”
  • Chinese: “无敌城”
  • Chinese: “沙祇”
  • Chinese: “阿約提亞”
  • Chinese: “阿约提亚”
  • Chinese: “阿踰陀”
  • Chinese: “阿逾陀城”
  • Czech: “Ajódhja”
  • Danish: “Ayodhya”
  • Dutch: “Ayodhya”
  • Esperanto: “Ajodhjo”
  • Esperanto: “Ajodjo”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Ayodhya”
  • Finnish: “Ayodhya”
  • French: “Aoudh”
  • French: “Avadhi”
  • French: “Ayodhya”
  • French: “Ayodhyâ”
  • French: “Ayodhyā”
  • Galician: “Ayodhya”
  • Georgian: “აიოდჰია”
  • German: “Ayodhya”
  • German: “Marsch auf Ayodhya”
  • Goan Konkani: “अयोध्या”
  • Greek: “Αγιόντια”
  • Gujarati: “અયોધ્યા”
  • Hebrew: “איודיה”
  • Hindi: “अयोध्या”
  • Hungarian: “Ajodhja”
  • Indonesian: “Ayodhya”
  • Indonesian: “Ayodya”
  • Indonesian: “Ayodyapura”
  • Italian: “Ayodhya”
  • Japanese: “アヨーディヤ”
  • Japanese: “アヨーディヤー”
  • Japanese: “アヨードヤー”
  • Javanese: “Ayodhya”
  • Kannada: “ಅಯೋಧ್ಯ”
  • Kannada: “ಅಯೋಧ್ಯೆ”
  • Kashmiri: “ایودھیا”
  • Korean: “아요디아”
  • Ladin: “Ayodhya”
  • Literary Chinese: “阿踰陀”
  • Lithuanian: “Ajodhija”
  • Lithuanian: “Ajodhja”
  • Lithuanian: “Ajodija”
  • Maithili: “अयोध्या”
  • Malagasy: “Ayodhya”
  • Malay: “Ayodhya”
  • Malayalam: “Ayodhya”
  • Malayalam: “അയോദ്ധ്യ”
  • Malayalam: “അയോധ്യ”
  • Marathi: “अयोध्या”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ayodhya”
  • Mingrelian: “აიოდჰია”
  • Nepali: “अयोध्या”
  • Newari: “अयोद्धा”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ayodha”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ayodhya”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Saketa”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ayodhya”
  • Norwegian: “Ayodhya”
  • Oriya: “Ayodhya”
  • Oriya: “ଅଯୋଧ୍ୟା”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਯੋਧਯਾ”
  • Panjabi: “ਅਯੋਧਿਆ”
  • Persian: “آجودهیا”
  • Persian: “آیودهیا”
  • Persian: “اجودهیا”
  • Persian: “ایودهیا”
  • Persian: “ایودھیا”
  • Persian: “ایودیا”
  • Polish: “Ajodhja”
  • Polish: “Ayodhya”
  • Portuguese: “Aiódia”
  • Portuguese: “Ayodhya”
  • Romanian: “Ayodhya”
  • Russian: “Айодхье”
  • Russian: “Айодхья”
  • Russian: “Рама-джанмабхуми”
  • Sanskrit: “अयोध्या”
  • Santali: “ᱟᱭᱳᱫᱷᱤᱭᱟ”
  • Scots: “Ayodhya”
  • Sindhi: “ايوڌيا”
  • Slovenian: “Ajodja”
  • Spanish: “Aiodhia”
  • Spanish: “Aiodia”
  • Spanish: “Aiodiá”
  • Spanish: “Ayodhia”
  • Spanish: “Ayodhya”
  • Spanish: “Ayodhyā”
  • Spanish: “Ayodya”
  • Swedish: “Ayodhya”
  • Tamil: “அயோத்தி”
  • Telugu: “అయోధ్య”
  • Thai: “อโยธยา”
  • Tibetan: “ཨ་ཡོ་དྷི་ཡ།”
  • Tulu: “ಅಯೋಧ್ಯೆ”
  • Turkish: “Ayodhya”
  • Ukrainian: “Айодг’я”
  • Ukrainian: “Айодх’я”
  • Ukrainian: “Айодхья”
  • Ukrainian: “Айодхя”
  • Urdu: “ایودھیا”
  • Vietnamese: “Ayodhya”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ayodhya”
  • Western Panjabi: “ایودھیا”
  • Wu Chinese: “阿约提亚”
  • “अयोध्या”

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