Bhopal

Bhopal is the capital of , . Despite earning the sobriquet the "Chernobyl of India" for its industrial disaster in 1984, Bhopal is an important city of Central India.
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  • Type: City with 1,800,000 residents
  • Description: metropolis and state capital in Madhya Pradesh, India
  • Also known as: “Bhojpal”, “Bhoopal”, “Bhupal”, and “City of Lakes”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Taj-ul-Masajid and Bhopal Junction railway station.

Mosque
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The , also known as the Tāj-ul-Masjid, is a Sunni , affiliated with Tablighi Jamaat, part of the Deobandi movement, located in Bhopal, in the state of , India.

Railway station
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is a major railway junction of India and main railway station of Bhopal, the capital of the central Indian state of .

Lake
The or Chhota Talaab is a in Bhopal, the capital of state of . Along with the or Upper Lake, it forms the Bhoj Wetland.

Bhopal

Latitude
23.2585° or 23° 15′ 31″ north
Longitude
77.402° or 77° 24′ 7″ east
Population
1,800,000
Elevation
523 metres (1,716 feet)
IATA airport code
BHO
United Nations Location Code
IN BHO
Open location code
7JMV7C52+9Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 245712627
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1275841
Wiki­data ID
Q80989
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Bhopal” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Bhopal”
  • Angika: “भोपाल”
  • Arabic: “بوبال”
  • Aragonese: “Bhopal”
  • Armenian: “Բհոպալ”
  • Asturian: “Bhopal”
  • Awadhi: “झीलों की नगरी”
  • Awadhi: “भूपाल”
  • Awadhi: “भोजपाल”
  • Awadhi: “भोपाल”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bhopal”
  • Basque: “Bhopal”
  • Belarusian: “Бхапал”
  • Bengali: “ভোপাল”
  • Bengali: “হ্রদের শহর”
  • Bhojpuri: “भोपाल”
  • Bishnupriya: “ভোপাল”
  • Breton: “Bhopal”
  • Bulgarian: “Бопал”
  • Bulgarian: “Бхопал”
  • Catalan: “Bhopal”
  • Cebuano: “Bhopal (kapital sa estado sa Indya)”
  • Cebuano: “Bhopal”
  • Central Bikol: “Bhopal”
  • Central Kurdish: “بۆپاڵ”
  • Chechen: “bhopal”
  • Chechen: “Бхопал”
  • Chinese: “Bhopal”
  • Chinese: “City of Lakes, 博杰帕尔, 博帕尔, 布帕尔”
  • Chinese: “博帕尔”
  • Chinese: “博帕爾”
  • Croatian: “Bhopal”
  • Czech: “Bhopál”
  • Czech: “Bhópál”
  • Danish: “Bhopal”
  • Dotyali: “भोपाल”
  • Dutch: “Bhopal”
  • Esperanto: “Bhopal”
  • Esperanto: “Bhopalo”
  • Esperanto: “Bopalo”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Bhopal”
  • Fijian: “Bhopal”
  • Finnish: “Bhopal”
  • French: “Bhopal”
  • French: “Bophal”
  • Georgian: “ბჰოპალი”
  • German: “Bhopal”
  • German: “Stadt der Seen”
  • Gilaki: “بوپال”
  • Greek: “Μποπάλ”
  • Gujarati: “તળાવોનું શહેર”
  • Gujarati: “ભોપાલ”
  • Hausa: “Bhopal”
  • Hausa: “Birnin Lakes, Bhojpal, Bhoopal, Bhupal”
  • Hebrew: “בהופאל”
  • Hebrew: “בופאל”
  • Hindi: “झीलों की नगरी”
  • Hindi: “भूपाल”
  • Hindi: “भोजपाल”
  • Hindi: “भोपाल”
  • Hungarian: “Bhopál”
  • Icelandic: “Bhopal”
  • Ido: “Bhopal”
  • Igbo: “Bhopal”
  • Igbo: “Obodo ọdọ mmiri, Bhojpal, Bhoopal, Bhupal”
  • Indonesian: “Bhopal”
  • Indonesian: “Kota Danau, Bhojpal, Bhoopal, Bhupal”
  • Irish: “Bópal”
  • Italian: “Bhopal”
  • Italian: “Città dei Laghi, Bhojpal, Bhoopal, Bhupal”
  • Japanese: “ボーパール”
  • Japanese: “ボープール”
  • Japanese: “ボパール”
  • Javanese: “Bhopal”
  • Kannada: “ಭೂಪಾಲ್”
  • Kannada: “ಭೊಪಾಲ್”
  • Kannada: “ಭೋಪಾಲ್”
  • Kashmiri: “بھوپال”
  • Kashmiri: “بۄپال”
  • Kazakh: “Бхопал”
  • Kazakh: “Көлдер қаласы, Бхожпал, Бхупал, Бхупал”
  • Kirghiz: “Бхопал”
  • Kirghiz: “Көлдөр шаары, Бхожпал, Бхопал, Бхупал”
  • Komering: “Bhopal”
  • Korean: “City of Lakes, Bhojpal, 부팔, 부팔”
  • Korean: “보팔”
  • Ladin: “Bhopal”
  • Latin: “Bhopala”
  • Latvian: “Bhopal”
  • Latvian: “Bhopala”
  • Latvian: “Bhopāla”
  • Lithuanian: “Bhopalas”
  • Lithuanian: “Bopalas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Bhopal”
  • Maithili: “भोपाल”
  • Malagasy: “Bhopal”
  • Malay: “Bhopal”
  • Malayalam: “Bhopal”
  • Malayalam: “ഭോപാൽ”
  • Malayalam: “ഭോപാൽ‍”
  • Malayalam: “ഭോപ്പാൽ”
  • Marathi: “भोपाल”
  • Marathi: “भोपाळ”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bhopal (siâⁿ)”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bhopal”
  • Mingrelian: “ბჰოპალი”
  • Mongolian: “Бхопал”
  • Nepali: “तालहरूको शहर”
  • Nepali: “भोपाल”
  • Newari: “भोपाल”
  • Northern Frisian: “Bhopal”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bhopal”
  • Norwegian: “Bhopal”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bhopal”
  • Oriya: “ଭୋପାଲ, Bhopal”
  • Oriya: “ଭୋପାଳ”
  • Ossetian: “Бхопал”
  • Pampanga: “Bhopal”
  • Panjabi: “ਝੀਲਾਂ ਦਾ ਸ਼ਹਿਰ”
  • Panjabi: “ਭੋਪਾਲ”
  • Persian: “بهوپال”
  • Persian: “بوپال”
  • Polish: “Bhopal”
  • Portuguese: “Bhopal”
  • Portuguese: “Bopal”
  • Portuguese: “Cidade dos Lagos, Bhojpal, Bhoopal, Bhupal”
  • Pushto: “بوپال”
  • Romanian: “Bhopal”
  • Romanian: “Orașul Lacurilor”
  • Russian: “Bhopal”
  • Russian: “Бхопал”
  • Sanskrit: “भोपाल मण्डलः”
  • Sanskrit: “भोपाल”
  • Sanskrit: “भोपालमण्डलम्”
  • Santali: “ᱵᱷᱚᱯᱟᱞ”
  • Scots: “Bhopal”
  • Serbian: “Bhopal”
  • Serbian: “Бопал”
  • Serbian: “भोपाल”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bhopal”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bopal”
  • Silesian: “Bhopal”
  • Sindhi: “ڀوپال”
  • Sinhala: “භෝපාල්”
  • Slovak: “Bhópál”
  • Slovenian: “Bhopal”
  • Slovenian: “Bhopāl”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بهوپال”
  • Spanish: “Bhopal”
  • Spanish: “Bhopāl”
  • Swahili: “Bhopal”
  • Swahili: “Jiji la Maziwa, Bhojpal, Bhoopal, Bhupal”
  • Swedish: “Bhopal”
  • Swedish: “Sjöarnas stad, Bhojpal, Bhoopal, Bhupal”
  • Tagalog: “Bhopal”
  • Tajik: “Бҳопал”
  • Tajik: “Шаҳри кӯлҳо, Бхоҷпал, Бхопал, Бхупал”
  • Talysh: “Bhopal”
  • Tamil: “போபால்”
  • Tamil: “போப்பால்”
  • Tatar: “Бхопал”
  • Telugu: “భోపాల్”
  • Telugu: “సరస్సుల నగరం”
  • Thai: “โบพาล”
  • Thai: “โภปาล”
  • Thai: “เมืองแห่งทะเลสาบ โภปาล โภปาล ภูปาล”
  • Tulu: “ಭೋಪಾಲ್”
  • Turkish: “Bhopal”
  • Turkish: “Bopal”
  • Twi: “Bhopal”
  • Ukrainian: “Бгопал”
  • Ukrainian: “Бхопал”
  • Urdu: “بھوپال”
  • Uzbek: “Bhopal”
  • Uzbek: “Ko’llar shahri, Bxojpal, Bhupal, Bhupal”
  • Venetian: “Bhopal”
  • Vietnamese: “Bhopal”
  • Vietnamese: “Thành phố Hồ, Bhojpal, Bhoopal, Bhupal”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bhopal”
  • Welsh: “Bhopal”
  • Western Panjabi: “بھوپال”
  • Western Panjabi: “بہوپال”
  • Wu Chinese: “博帕尔”
  • Yiddish: “בהאפאַל”
  • Yoruba: “Bhopal”
  • Yoruba: “Ilu ti Adagun, Bhojpal, Bhoopal, Bhupal”
  • Yue Chinese: “博帕爾”
  • “Bhojpal”
  • “Bhoopal”
  • “Bhopal”
  • “Bhupal”
  • “City of Lakes”
  • “भोपाल”

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