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Bihar

Bihar is a state in the of . The state is bounded by to its west, to its east, to its south and to its north.
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is the capital of Bihar and the second largest metropolis in eastern . The city has a glorious past and is now a bustling up-and-coming metropolis.

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is a major pilgrimage city in Bihar for Hindus. It is visited for doing piṇḍ dān and for visiting and Vishnupad temple.

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, located in the state of Bihar, the town holds immense spiritual significance as the site where Buddha Shakyamuni attained enlightenment. It is considered the most revered of all Buddhist sacred sites and forms a key part of the Buddhist Circuit.

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was a region and kingdom in ancient India, based in the . It was one of the sixteen Mahajanapadas during the Second Urbanization period.

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, also known as Tirhut, Tirabhukti and Mithilanchal, is a geographical and cultural region of the bounded by the in the east, the Ganges in the south, the in the west and by the foothills of the in the north.
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Bihar

Latitude of center
25.6441° or 25° 38′ 39″ north
Longitude of center
85.9065° or 85° 54′ 23″ east
Population
104,000,000
Elevation
52 metres (171 feet)
Abbreviation
“BR”
IATA airport code
DBR
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2240945362
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
1275715
Wiki­data ID
Q1165
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Bihar” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Bihar”
  • Afrikaans: “Bihar”
  • Albanian: “Bihar”
  • Albanian: “Bihari”
  • Amharic: “ብሓር”
  • Angika: “बिहार”
  • Arabic: “بهار”
  • Arabic: “بيهار”
  • Aragonese: “Bihar”
  • Armenian: “Բիհար”
  • Assamese: “বিহাৰ”
  • Asturian: “Bihar”
  • Awadhi: “बिहार”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bihar”
  • Balinese: “Bihar”
  • Basque: “Bihar”
  • Belarusian: “Бігар”
  • Belarusian: “Біхар”
  • Bengali: “বিহার”
  • Bhojpuri: “बिहार प्रदेश”
  • Bhojpuri: “बिहार प्रांत”
  • Bhojpuri: “बिहार राज्य”
  • Bhojpuri: “बिहार”
  • Bishnupriya: “বিহার”
  • Breton: “Bihar”
  • Bulgarian: “Бихар”
  • Burmese: “ဘီဟာပြည်နယ်”
  • Burmese: “ဝိဟာရပြည်နယ်”
  • Catalan: “Bihar”
  • Cebuano: “State of Bihār”
  • Central Kurdish: “بیھار”
  • Chechen: “Бихар”
  • Chinese: “Bihar”
  • Chinese: “比哈尔邦”
  • Chinese: “比哈爾邦”
  • Croatian: “Bihar”
  • Czech: “Bihár”
  • Danish: “Bihar”
  • Dhivehi: “ބިހާރު”
  • Dotyali: “बिहार”
  • Dutch: “Bihar”
  • Esperanto: “Biharo”
  • Estonian: “Bihar”
  • Estonian: “Bihār”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Bihar”
  • Finnish: “Bihar”
  • French: “Bihar”
  • Galician: “Bihar”
  • Georgian: “ბიჰარი”
  • German: “Bihar”
  • Goan Konkani: “Bihar”
  • Goan Konkani: “बिहार”
  • Greek: “Μπιχάρ”
  • Gujarati: “બિહાર”
  • Hausa: “Bihar”
  • Hebrew: “ביהר”
  • Hindi: “बिहार”
  • Hungarian: “Bihár”
  • Icelandic: “Bíhar”
  • Ido: “Bihar”
  • Indonesian: “Bihar”
  • Interlingua: “Bihar”
  • Irish: “Bihar”
  • Irish: “Biohár”
  • Italian: “Bihar”
  • Japanese: “ビハール”
  • Japanese: “ビハール州”
  • Kannada: “ಬಿಹಾರ”
  • Kashmiri: “بِہار”
  • Komering: “Bihar”
  • Korean: “비하르 주”
  • Korean: “비하르”
  • Korean: “비하르주”
  • Ladin: “Bihar”
  • Latin: “Bihar”
  • Latin: “Bihara”
  • Latin: “Bihāra”
  • Latvian: “Bihāra”
  • Lithuanian: “Biharas”
  • Macedonian: “Бихар”
  • Maithili: “बिहार”
  • Malagasy: “Bihar”
  • Malay: “Bihar”
  • Malayalam: “ബിഹാർ”
  • Manipuri: “ꯕꯤꯍꯥꯔ”
  • Marathi: “बिहार”
  • Mazanderani: “بیهار”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Bihar”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bihar”
  • Mingrelian: “ბიჰარი”
  • Mongolian: “Бихар”
  • Nepali: “बिहार”
  • Newari: “बिहार राज्य, भारत”
  • Newari: “बिहार”
  • Northern Frisian: “Bihar”
  • Northern Luri: “بیهار”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bihar”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bihar”
  • Norwegian: “Bihar”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bihar”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Bihar”
  • Oriya: “ବିହାର”
  • Ossetian: “Бихар”
  • Pampanga: “Bihar”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਿਹਾਰ”
  • Persian: “بهار”
  • Persian: “بیهار”
  • Polish: “Bihar”
  • Portuguese: “Biar”
  • Portuguese: “Bihar”
  • Pushto: “بهار”
  • Romanian: “Bihar”
  • Russian: “Бихар”
  • Sanskrit: “बिहारराज्यम्”
  • Santali: “ᱵᱤᱦᱟᱨ”
  • Scots: “Bihar”
  • Serbian: “Бихар”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bihar”
  • Sindhi: “بھار (رياست)”
  • Sindhi: “بِھار”
  • Sinhala: “බිහාරය”
  • Slovak: “Bihár”
  • Slovenian: “Bihar”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بیهار اوستانی”
  • Spanish: “Bihar”
  • Swahili: “Bihar”
  • Swedish: “Bihar”
  • Swiss German: “Bihar”
  • Tagalog: “Bihar”
  • Tajik: “Биҳар”
  • Tajik: “Иёлати Биҳар”
  • Tamil: “பீகார்”
  • Tatar: “Биһар”
  • Telugu: “బీహార్”
  • Thai: “รัฐพิหาร”
  • Tibetan: “སྦི་ཧཱར།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Bihar”
  • Tulu: “ಬಿಹಾರ”
  • Turkish: “Bihar”
  • Ukrainian: “Біхар”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Bihar”
  • Urdu: “بہار”
  • Uzbek: “Bihar”
  • Venetian: “Bihar”
  • Vietnamese: “Bihar”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bihar”
  • Welsh: “Bihar”
  • Western Panjabi: “بہار”
  • Western Panjabi: “بیہار”
  • Wu Chinese: “比哈尔邦”
  • Yoruba: “Bihar”
  • Yue Chinese: “比哈爾邦”
  • “ma kipisi Pija”
  • “ma lili Pija”
  • “बिहार”

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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 “Bihar”. Photo: Hshook, CC BY-SA 4.0.