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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, the capital of Bihar, is a bustling city in the with a glorious past. It is a gateway to the Buddhist and Jain pilgrimage centres of , , , , Kesariya and .

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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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, a city in the state of Bihar, holds immense spiritual significance as the site where Buddha Shakyamuni is said to have attained enlightenment.

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

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Bhojpuri region, or simply or sometimes Purbanchal, is an ethnolinguistic and cultural area in the where the Bhojpuri language is spoken as a mother tongue.
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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: “ቢሃር”
  • Amharic: “ብሓር”
  • Angika: “बिहार राज्य”
  • Angika: “बिहार”
  • Arabic: “بهار”
  • Arabic: “بيهار”
  • Aragonese: “Bihar”
  • Armenian: “Բիհար”
  • Assamese: “বিহাৰ ৰাজ্য”
  • Assamese: “বিহাৰ”
  • Asturian: “Bihar”
  • Awadhi: “बिहार”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bihar”
  • Balinese: “Bihar”
  • Basque: “Bihar”
  • Belarusian: “Бігар”
  • Belarusian: “Біхар”
  • Bengali: “বিহার রাজ্য”
  • 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: “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”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بهار”
  • Esperanto: “Biharo”
  • Estonian: “Bihar”
  • Estonian: “Bihār”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Bihar”
  • Finnish: “Bihar”
  • French: “Bihar”
  • French: “État du Bihar”
  • Galician: “Bihar”
  • Georgian: “ბიჰარი”
  • German: “Bihar”
  • German: “Bundesstaat Bihar”
  • Goan Konkani: “Bihar”
  • Goan Konkani: “बिहार”
  • Greek: “Μπιχάρ”
  • Gujarati: “બિહાર રાજ્ય”
  • 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”
  • Javanese: “Bihar”
  • Kannada: “ಬಿಹಾರ ರಾಜ್ಯ”
  • Kannada: “ಬಿಹಾರ”
  • Kashmiri: “بِہار”
  • Kazakh: “Бихар”
  • Kirghiz: “Бихар”
  • Komering: “Bihar”
  • Korean: “비하르 주”
  • Korean: “비하르”
  • Korean: “비하르주”
  • Ladin: “Bihar”
  • Latin: “Bihar”
  • Latin: “Bihara”
  • Latin: “Bihāra”
  • Latvian: “Bihāra”
  • Lithuanian: “Biharas”
  • Macedonian: “Бихар”
  • Magahi: “बिहार”
  • Maithili: “बिहार राज्य”
  • Maithili: “बिहार”
  • Malagasy: “Bihar”
  • Malay: “Bihar”
  • Malayalam: “ബിഹാർ സംസ്ഥാനം”
  • Malayalam: “ബിഹാർ”
  • Manipuri: “ꯕꯤꯍꯥꯔ”
  • Marathi: “बिहार राज्य”
  • Marathi: “बिहार”
  • Mazanderani: “بیهار”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Bihar”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bihar”
  • Mingrelian: “ბიჰარი”
  • Mongolian: “Бихар”
  • Nepali: “बिहार राज्य”
  • Nepali: “बिहार”
  • 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 ରାଜ୍ୟ”
  • Oriya: “ବିହାର”
  • Oromo: “Bihar”
  • Ossetian: “Бихар”
  • Pampanga: “Bihar”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਿਹਾਰ ਰਾਜ”
  • Panjabi: “ਬਿਹਾਰ”
  • Persian: “بهار”
  • Persian: “بیهار”
  • Polish: “Bihar”
  • Portuguese: “Biar”
  • Portuguese: “Bihar”
  • Pushto: “بهار”
  • Romanian: “Bihar”
  • Russian: “Бихар”
  • Russian: “Штат Бихар”
  • Sanskrit: “बिहारः”
  • Sanskrit: “बिहारराज्यम्”
  • Sanskrit: “विहारराज्यम्”
  • Santali: “ᱵᱤᱦᱟᱨ”
  • Scots: “Bihar”
  • Serbian: “Бихар”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bihar”
  • Sindhi: “بھار”
  • Sindhi: “بِھار”
  • Sinhala: “බිහාරය”
  • Slovak: “Bihár”
  • Slovenian: “Bihar”
  • Somali: “Bihar”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بیهار اوستانی”
  • Spanish: “Bihar”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Bihar”
  • Swahili: “Bihar”
  • Swedish: “Bihar”
  • Swiss German: “Bihar”
  • Tagalog: “Bihar”
  • Tajik: “Биҳар”
  • Tajik: “Иёлати Биҳар”
  • Tamil: “பீகார் மாநிலம்”
  • Tamil: “பீகார்”
  • Tatar: “Бихар”
  • Tatar: “Биһар”
  • Telugu: “బీహార్ రాష్ట్రం”
  • Telugu: “బీహార్”
  • Thai: “รัฐพิหาร”
  • Tibetan: “སྦི་ཧཱར།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Bihar”
  • Tulu: “ಬಿಹಾರ”
  • Turkish: “Bihar”
  • Ukrainian: “Бігар”
  • Ukrainian: “Біхар”
  • Ukrainian: “Штат Біхар”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Bihar”
  • Urdu: “بہار”
  • Urdu: “ریاست بہار”
  • Urdu: “صوبہ بہار”
  • Uzbek: “Bihar”
  • Venetian: “Bihar”
  • Vietnamese: “Bihar”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bihar”
  • Welsh: “Bihar”
  • Western Frisian: “Bihar”
  • Western Panjabi: “بہار”
  • Western Panjabi: “بیہار”
  • Wu Chinese: “比哈尔邦”
  • Yoruba: “Bihar”
  • Yue Chinese: “比哈爾邦”
  • “Bihar”
  • “ma kipisi Pija”
  • “ma lili Pija”
  • “बिहार”

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