Bhuj
Bhuj is a city and the headquarters of Kutch district in the Indian state of Gujarat. It was the capital of Kutch State, which was a princely state before it was merged into the Indian Union in 1947.
- Type: City with 143,000 residents
- Description: city in Gujarat
- Also known as: “BHJ”, “Bhooj”, “ভুজ”, “ભૂજ”, “ブージ”, and “普杰市”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Hamirsar Lake and Prag Mahal.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Madhapar.
Bhuj
- Category: locality
- Location: Bhuj, Kutch, Gujarat, Western India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
23.2472° or 23° 14′ 50″ north
Longitude
69.6683° or 69° 40′ 6″ east
Population
143,000
Elevation
106 metres (348 feet)
IATA airport code
BHJ
UN/LOCODE
IN BHJ
Open location code
7JMF6MW9+V8
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Bhuj” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بهوي”
- Arabic: “بوج”
- Asturian: “Bhuj”
- Bengali: “ভূজ”
- Bhojpuri: “भुज”
- Bishnupriya: “ভোজ”
- Catalan: “Bhuj”
- Cebuano: “Bhuj”
- Chinese: “普傑”
- Chinese: “普傑市”
- Chinese: “普杰”
- Dutch: “Bhuj”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بهوى”
- Esperanto: “Bhuĝ”
- Esperanto: “Buĝ”
- French: “Bhuj”
- Georgian: “ბჰუჯი”
- German: “Bhuj”
- Gujarati: “ભુજ”
- Hebrew: “‘בהוג”
- Hebrew: “בהוג‘”
- Hindi: “भुज”
- Italian: “Bhuj”
- Japanese: “ブジ”
- Japanese: “ブジュ”
- Kannada: “ಭುಜ್”
- Kashmiri: “بھُج”
- Korean: “부지”
- Magahi: “भुज”
- Malagasy: “Bhuj”
- Malay: “Bhuj”
- Marathi: “भूज”
- Mingrelian: “ბჰუჯი”
- Newari: “भुज”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bhuj”
- Norwegian: “Bhuj”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Bhuj”
- Oriya: “Bhuj”
- Oriya: “ଭୁଜ”
- Pampanga: “Bhuj”
- Panjabi: “ਭੁਜ”
- Persian: “بوج”
- Polish: “Bhuj”
- Portuguese: “Bhuj”
- Romanian: “Bhuj”
- Russian: “Бхудж”
- Sanskrit: “भुज”
- Santali: “ᱵᱷᱩᱡᱽ”
- Sindhi: “ڀڄ”
- Spanish: “Bhuj”
- Swedish: “Bhuj”
- Tamil: “புஜ்”
- Telugu: “భుజ్”
- Thai: “ภุช”
- Ukrainian: “Бхудж”
- Urdu: “بھوج”
- Urdu: “بھوجپور”
- Vietnamese: “Bhuj”
- Waray (Philippines): “Bhuj”
- Western Panjabi: “بھوج”
- “भुज”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Ghanshyam Nagar and Vijay Nagar.
Kutch: Must-Visit Destinations
Worth a closer look: Dholavira and Gandhidham.
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