Bhuj
Bhuj is a city and the headquarters of Kutch district in the Indian state of Gujarat. It was the capital of Cutch State, which was a princely state before it was merged into the Indian Union in 1947.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Nizil Shah, CC BY-SA 1.0.
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- Type: City with 143,000 residents
- Description: city in Gujarat
- Also known as: “Bhooj”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hamirsar Lake and Kutch Museum.
Hamirsar Lake
Lake
Photo: Nizil Shah, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hamirsar Lake is a man-made lake situated in the centre of Bhuj, the headquarters of Kutch district in the Indian state of Gujarat.
Kutch Museum
Museum
Photo: Nizil Shah, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kutch Museum is a museum located opposite to the Hamirsar Lake in Bhuj, in the Kutch district of Gujarat, India. It is the oldest museum of Gujarat which was founded in 1877.
Prag Mahal
Castle
Photo: Nizil Shah, CC BY-SA 1.0.
The Prag Mahal is a 19th-century palace located next to the Aina Mahal in Bhuj, Kutch, Gujarat, India.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Madhapar.
Madhapar
Village
Photo: Vijay8808, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Madhapar is a village located in Kachchh district in the state of Gujarat, India. It is the richest village in India in terms of bank deposits. The village has around 20,000 households and 70,000,000,000 Indian rupee of bank deposits.
Bhuj
- Category: locality
- Location: Bhuj, Kutch, Gujarat, Western India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
23.2472° or 23° 14′ 50″ northLongitude
69.6683° or 69° 40′ 6″ eastPopulation
143,000Elevation
106 metres (348 feet)IATA airport code
BHJUnited Nations Location Code
IN BHJOpen location code
7JMF6MW9+V8OpenStreetMap ID
node 567903581OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1275812Wikidata ID
Q798382
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Bhuj” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بهوي”
- Arabic: “بوج”
- Asturian: “Bhuj”
- Bengali: “ভুজ”
- Bengali: “ভূজ”
- Bhojpuri: “भुज”
- Bishnupriya: “ভোজ”
- Catalan: “Bhuj”
- Cebuano: “Bhuj”
- Chinese: “普傑”
- Chinese: “普傑市”
- Chinese: “普杰”
- Chinese: “普杰市”
- Dutch: “Bhuj”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بهوى”
- Esperanto: “Bhuĝ”
- Esperanto: “Buĝ”
- French: “BHJ”
- French: “Bhuj”
- Georgian: “ბჰუჯი”
- German: “Bhuj”
- Gujarati: “ભુજ”
- Gujarati: “ભૂજ”
- Hebrew: “‘בהוג”
- Hebrew: “בהוג‘”
- Hindi: “भुज”
- Italian: “Bhuj”
- Japanese: “ブージ”
- Japanese: “ブジ”
- Japanese: “ブジュ”
- Kannada: “ಭುಜ್”
- Kashmiri: “بُھج”
- Korean: “부지”
- 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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