Balasore

Balasore or Baleshwar is a city in the North Coast of Odisha. It is full of mixed cultures, and is greatly influenced by Odia, Bengali and Marwari cultures. It's also an industrial hub with some major and numerous small-scale industries.
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  • Type: Town with 144,000 residents
  • Description: town in Odisha, India
  • Also known as: Baleshwar”, “Bāleshwar”, and “Baleswar

Places of Interest

Highlights include Balasore railway station.

Railway station
, officially Baleshwar railway station, is a railway station in Balasore city of . It serves Balasore, , and Bhograi in and other districts like Mayurbhanj, Kendujhargarh and for boarding major trains like Duronto, Rajdhani, Shatabdi and Humsafar Express and many more trains that do not stop at .

Balasore

Latitude
21.5017° or 21° 30′ 6″ north
Longitude
86.9217° or 86° 55′ 18″ east
Population
144,000
Elevation
22 metres (72 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IN BLS
Open location code
7MH8GW2C+MM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1370641379
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1277599
Wiki­data ID
Q641098
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Assamese to Western Panjabi—“Balasore” goes by many names.
  • Assamese: বালেশ্বৰ
  • Asturian: Balasore
  • Belarusian: Баласор
  • Bengali: বালেশ্বর
  • Bhojpuri: बालेश्वर
  • Bishnupriya: বালেশ্বর
  • Catalan: Balasore
  • Cebuano: Balasore
  • Chinese: 巴拉索尔
  • Chinese: 巴拉索爾
  • Dutch: Balasore
  • Esperanto: Balasore
  • French: Balasore
  • German: Balasore
  • German: Baleshwar
  • German: Baleswar
  • Greek: Μπαλασόρ
  • Gujarati: બાલેશ્વર જિલ્લો
  • Gujarati: બાલેશ્વર
  • Hebrew: באלסור
  • Hindi: बालासोर
  • Hindi: बालेश्वर
  • Hindi: बालेस्वर्
  • Irish: Balasore
  • Italian: Balasore
  • Japanese: バーレーシュワル
  • Japanese: バラソール
  • Kannada: ಬಾಲಸೊರ್
  • Kashmiri: بالاسور
  • Korean: 발라소르
  • Malagasy: Balasore
  • Malay: Baleshwar
  • Marathi: बालेश्वर
  • Newari: बलेश्वर
  • Newari: बालेश्वर
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Balasore
  • Norwegian: Balasore
  • Oriya: ବାଲେଶ୍ଵର
  • Oriya: ବାଲେଶ୍ୱର
  • Oriya: ବାଲେସର
  • Oriya: ବାଲେସ୍ୱର
  • Oriya: ବାଳାସର
  • Pampanga: Balasore
  • Persian: بالاسور
  • Polish: Balasore
  • Portuguese: Balasore
  • Romanian: Balasore
  • Russian: Баласор
  • Russian: Балешвар
  • Santali: ᱵᱟᱞᱮᱥᱚᱨ
  • Silesian: Balasore
  • Spanish: Balasore
  • Swedish: Balasore
  • Swedish: Baleshwar
  • Tamil: பாலேஸ்வர்
  • Telugu: బాలాసోర్
  • Telugu: బాలేశ్వర్
  • Thai: พาเลศวร
  • Urdu: بالاسور
  • Vietnamese: Baleshwar
  • Waray (Philippines): Baleshwar
  • Western Panjabi: بالاسور
  • बालेश्वर

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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 “Balasore”. Photo: Debashis.jena16, CC BY-SA 4.0.