Bangalore

Bangalore, also known as Bengaluru or BLR for short, is the capital of the state of . It is a large, cosmopolitan city with a large working population.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include North Bangalore and South Bangalore.

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Yelahanka is an area in and also a Taluk of Bangalore Urban district in the Indian state of , coming under the Bangalore North City Corporation.

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covers the city's southern suburbs. It is home to many shopping malls, a large number of popular and fine-dining cafés and restaurants, and of course India's IT and biotech mecca of Electronic City.

Bangalore covers the Mahatma Gandhi Road, Brigade Grounds and Ulsoor areas of the British-built Cantonment. It is a popular spot for shopping and dining in Bangalore.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as East Bangalore and Kempegowda International Airport.

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is the airport serving Bangalore, . It is among India's busiest and most modern airports.

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Bangalore covers the city's historic core Pete, as well as the western fringes of the British-built Cantonment, Bangalore's modern city centre.

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is a national park south of Bangalore, in . It is a popular tourist destination with a zoo, a pet corner, an animal rescue centre, a butterfly enclosure, an aquarium, a snake house and a safari park.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include M. Chinnaswamy Stadium and Sree Kanteerava Stadium.

Stadium
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The , also known as the Karnataka State Cricket Association Stadium, is a cricket stadium in Bengaluru city of the Indian state of Karnataka.

Stadium
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Sree Kanteerava Outdoor Stadium, also known as Sampangi Outdoor Stadium, is a multi-purpose stadium in Bangalore, . It houses a running track, a volleyball court, and two outdoor rock climbing walls.

Railway station
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Bengaluru City Railway Station, officially Krantivira Sangolli Rayanna Bengaluru Station pronunciation, also known as Bangalore City Railway Station, KSR Bengaluru Station, or Majestic Railway station, is the main railway station of Bengaluru, serving the city of Bengaluru, , India.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ulsoor and Chickpet.

Suburb
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Halasuru, known as during the British Rule, is one of the oldest neighbourhoods in the city of Bengaluru. It is in central Bengaluru, and begins near the eastern terminus of Mahatma Gandhi Raste. It is renowned for its numerous temples and market.

Suburb
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Chikkapete is a neighborhood in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. It is one of the city's oldest areas and is famous for its Wholesale & Retail Cloths Shops.

Suburb
is a locality situated in Bengaluru. It is a bustling neighbourhood of Central Bengaluru.

Bangalore

Latitude
12.9755° or 12° 58′ 32″ north
Longitude
77.5909° or 77° 35′ 27″ east
Population
10,800,000
Elevation
920 metres (3,018 feet)
IATA airport code
BLR
United Nations Location Code
IN BLR
Open location code
7J4VXHGR+59
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3401391999
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1277333
Wiki­data ID
Q1355
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Bangalore” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Bangalore”
  • Albanian: “Bangalore”
  • Amharic: “በንጋሉሩ”
  • Arabic: “بنغالور”
  • Armenian: “Բանգալոր”
  • Armenian: “Բանդալոր”
  • Arpitan: “Bangalore”
  • Assamese: “বাংগালোৰ”
  • Assamese: “বাঙ্গালোৰ”
  • Assamese: “বেংগালুৰ”
  • Assamese: “বেংগালুৰু”
  • Assamese: “বেঙ্গালুৰু”
  • Assamese: “ভাৰতৰ চিলিকন ভ্যেলী”
  • Asturian: “Bangalore”
  • Asturian: “Bengaluru”
  • Azerbaijani: “Banqalor”
  • Azerbaijani: “Benqaluru”
  • Balinese: “Béngaluru”
  • Bashkir: “Бангалор”
  • Basque: “Bangalore”
  • Basque: “Bengaluru”
  • Belarusian: “Бангалёр”
  • Belarusian: “Бангалор”
  • Belarusian: “Бэнгалюру”
  • Bengali: “বাঙ্গালোর”
  • Bengali: “বেঙ্গালুরু”
  • Bengali: “ভারতের সিলিকন ভ্যালি”
  • Bhojpuri: “बंगलौर”
  • Bishnupriya: “বাঙ্গালোর”
  • Bosnian: “Bangalore”
  • Breton: “Bangalore”
  • Breton: “Bengaluru”
  • Bulgarian: “Бангалоoр”
  • Bulgarian: “Бенгалуру”
  • Burmese: “ဘန်ဂလိုမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Bangalore”
  • Catalan: “Bengalaru”
  • Cebuano: “Bangalore”
  • Cebuano: “Beṅgaḷūru”
  • Cebuano: “Benggaluru”
  • Cebuano: “Beṅgluru”
  • Central Kurdish: “بەنگالۆر”
  • Chechen: “Бангалор”
  • Chechen: “Бенгалу́ру”
  • Chinese: “Bangalore”
  • Chinese: “印度矽谷”
  • Chinese: “本加卢鲁”
  • Chinese: “班加罗尔”
  • Chinese: “班加羅爾”
  • Chinese: “邦加罗尔”
  • Chinese: “邦加羅爾”
  • Cornish: “Bengalour”
  • Croatian: “Bangalore”
  • Croatian: “Bengaluru”
  • Czech: “Bengalúr”
  • Czech: “Bengalúru”
  • Czech: “Béngalúru”
  • Danish: “Bangalore”
  • Danish: “Bengaluru”
  • Dotyali: “बेङ्गलोर”
  • Dutch: “Bangalore”
  • Dutch: “Bengaluru”
  • Eastern Mari: “Бангалор”
  • Eastern Mari: “Бенгалуру”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بنجالور”
  • Esperanto: “Bengaluro”
  • Esperanto: “Beṅgaḷūru”
  • Estonian: “Bangalore”
  • Estonian: “Bengaluru”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Bengaluru”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Beṅgaḷūru”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Beṅgluru”
  • Fiji Hindi: “बेंगलुरु”
  • Fijian: “Begaluru”
  • Finnish: “Bangalore”
  • Finnish: “Bengaluru”
  • French: “Bangalore”
  • French: “Bengaluru”
  • French: “Beṅgaḷūru”
  • French: “Beṅgluru”
  • French: “Bingalourou”
  • Galician: “Bangalore”
  • Galician: “Bengaluru”
  • Georgian: “ბენგალურუ”
  • German: “Bengaluru”
  • German: “Bangalore” (historical)
  • Goan Konkani: “ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು”
  • Goan Konkani: “ಬೆಂಗ್ಳುರ್”
  • Greek: “Μπανγκαλόρ”
  • Gujarati: “બેંગલુરુ”
  • Gujarati: “બેંગલોર”
  • Gujarati: “બેંગાલુરુ”
  • Hausa: “Bengaluru”
  • Hebrew: “Bangalore”
  • Hebrew: “באנגלור”
  • Hebrew: “בנגאלור”
  • Hebrew: “בנגלור”
  • Hebrew: “בנגלורו”
  • Hindi: “बंगलौर”
  • Hindi: “बेंगलुरु”
  • Hindi: “बेंगालुरू”
  • Hungarian: “Bangalor”
  • Hungarian: “Bengaluru”
  • Icelandic: “Bangalore”
  • Icelandic: “Bengaluru”
  • Ido: “Bangalore”
  • Indonesian: “Bangalore”
  • Indonesian: “Bengaluru”
  • Interlingue: “Bangalore”
  • Irish: “Bangalore”
  • Irish: “Bengaluru”
  • Italian: “Bangalore”
  • Italian: “Bengaluru”
  • Italian: “Beṅgaḷūru”
  • Japanese: “インドのシリコンバレー”
  • Japanese: “インドの庭園都市”
  • Japanese: “バンガロール”
  • Japanese: “ベンガルール”
  • Javanese: “Bangalore”
  • Javanese: “Bengaluru”
  • Kalaallisut: “Bangalore”
  • Kannada: “ನಮ್ಮ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು”
  • Kannada: “ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು, ಭಾರತ”
  • Kannada: “ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು”
  • Kannada: “ಬೆಂದಕಾಳೂರು”
  • Kannada: “ಬ್ಯಾಂಗಲೋರ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Bangalor”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Bengaluru”
  • Kashmiri: “بنگلور”
  • Kazakh: “Бангалор”
  • Kinaray-A: “Benggëluru”
  • Kinaray-A: “Bëngglor”
  • Kirghiz: “Бангалор”
  • Kirghiz: “Бенгалуру”
  • Komering: “Bengaluru”
  • Korean: “방갈로르”
  • Korean: “방골라”
  • Korean: “뱅걸로”
  • Korean: “벵갈루루”
  • Kurdish: “Bangalor”
  • Kurdish: “Bengaluru”
  • Ladin: “Bangalore”
  • Latin: “Bengalurus”
  • Latvian: “Bengalora”
  • Latvian: “Bengaluru”
  • Latvian: “Bengalūru”
  • Lithuanian: “Bengalūras”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Bangalore”
  • Macedonian: “Бенгалуру”
  • Maithili: “बेङ्गलुरू”
  • Maithili: “बेङ्गलोर”
  • Malagasy: “Bangalore”
  • Malagasy: “Bengaluru”
  • Malay: “Bangalore”
  • Malay: “Bengaluru”
  • Malay: “Beṅgaḷūru”
  • Malayalam: “ബെംഗളൂരു”
  • Maltese: “Bangalore”
  • Maltese: “Bengaluru”
  • Maori: “Bangalore”
  • Maori: “Pangaruru”
  • Marathi: “बंगलोर”
  • Marathi: “बंगळूर”
  • Mazanderani: “بنگلور”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bangalore”
  • Mingrelian: “ბანგალორი”
  • Mirandese: “Bangalore”
  • Moksha: “Бангалор”
  • Mongolian: “Бангалор”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “بانڭالور”
  • Nepali: “बेङ्गलोर”
  • Newari: “बेङ्गलूरु”
  • Northern Frisian: “Bangalore”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bangalore”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bangalore”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bengaluru”
  • Norwegian: “Bangalore”
  • Norwegian: “Bengaluru”
  • Nyanja: “Bangalore”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bengaluri”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bengaluru”
  • Oriya: “ବାଙ୍ଗାଲୋର”
  • Oriya: “ବେଙ୍ଗାଳୁରୁ”
  • Ossetian: “Бангалор”
  • Pampanga: “Bangalore”
  • Pampanga: “Bangglur”
  • Pampanga: “Benggalúru”
  • Panjabi: “ਬੰਗਲੌਰ”
  • Panjabi: “ਬੇਂਗਾਲ਼ੁਰੂ”
  • Persian: “بنگالورو”
  • Persian: “بنگلور”
  • Polish: “Bengaluru”
  • Portuguese: “Bangalor”
  • Portuguese: “Bangalore”
  • Portuguese: “Bengaluru”
  • Portuguese: “Bengalúru”
  • Pushto: “بنگلور”
  • Quechua: “Bangalore”
  • Romanian: “Bangalore” (historical)
  • Romanian: “Bengaluru”
  • Russia Buriat: “Бенгалуру”
  • Russian: “Бангалор”
  • Russian: “Бенгалуру”
  • Sanskrit: “बेङ्गलूरु”
  • Sanskrit: “बेङ्गळूरु”
  • Santali: “ᱵᱮᱝᱜᱟᱞᱩᱨᱩ”
  • Scots: “Bangalore”
  • Scots: “Bengaluru”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Bangalore”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Bengaluru”
  • Serbian: “Бангалор”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bangalor”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bengaluru”
  • Sicilian: “Bangaluri”
  • Silesian: “Bengaluru”
  • Sindhi: “بنگلورو”
  • Sinhala: “බැංගලෝරය”
  • Sinhala: “බැංගලෝර්”
  • Slovak: “Bangalúr”
  • Slovenian: “Bengaluru”
  • Somali: “Bengaluru”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بنقلور”
  • Spanish: “Bangalore”
  • Spanish: “Bengaluru”
  • Spanish: “Beṅgaḷūru”
  • Spanish: “Beṅgluru”
  • Swahili: “Bangalore”
  • Swedish: “Bangalore”
  • Swedish: “Bengaluru”
  • Sylheti: “ꠛꠦꠋꠉꠣꠟꠥꠞꠥ ꠘꠉꠞ”
  • Sylheti: “ꠛꠦꠋꠉꠣꠟꠥꠞꠥ”
  • Tagalog: “Bangalore”
  • Tagalog: “Beṅgaḷūru”
  • Tagalog: “Benggaluru”
  • Tajik: “Бангалор”
  • Talysh: “Bangalor”
  • Tamil: “பெங்களூர்”
  • Tatar: “Bäñgäluru”
  • Tatar: “Бәңгәлуру”
  • Telugu: “బెంగళూరు”
  • Telugu: “బెంగుళూరు”
  • Telugu: “బెంగుళూర్”
  • Thai: “บังคาลอร์”
  • Thai: “เบงคลูรู”
  • Tulu: “ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು”
  • Turkish: “Bangalor”
  • Turkish: “Bangalore”
  • Turkish: “Bengaluru”
  • Turkmen: “Bangalor”
  • Twi: “Bangalore”
  • Uighur: “Ban’galor”
  • Uighur: “Bengaluru”
  • Uighur: “بانگالور”
  • Ukrainian: “Банґалор”
  • Ukrainian: “Бенгалуру”
  • Ukrainian: “Бенґалуру”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Bangalore”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Bengaluru”
  • Urdu: “بنگلور”
  • Uzbek: “Bangalor”
  • Venetian: “Beṅgluru”
  • Veps: “Bangalor”
  • Veps: “Bengaluru”
  • Vietnamese: “Bangalore”
  • Vietnamese: “Bengaluru”
  • Volapük: “Bangalore”
  • Volapük: “Bangaluru”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bangalore”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Beṅgaḷūru”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Benggaluru”
  • Welsh: “Bangalore”
  • Western Panjabi: “بنگلور”
  • Western Panjabi: “بینگلور”
  • Wu Chinese: “Bangalore”
  • Wu Chinese: “Bangaluru”
  • Wu Chinese: “班加罗尔”
  • Yiddish: “באנגאלאר”
  • Yoruba: “Bangalore”
  • Yoruba: “Bengaluru”
  • Yue Chinese: “班加羅爾”
  • “ma tomo Penkalulu”
  • “बंगलौर”

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