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Bihar

Bihar Sharif

Bihar Sharif is a town of 300,000 people in , . It is east of the Paimar River, a tributary of the Ganges River. The old centre of town has examples of medieval Islamic architecture, such as the Bukhari Mosque.
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Photo: Abhishek.chandan, Public domain.
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  • Type: City with 297,000 residents
  • Description: Sub-metropolitan city in Nalanda district, Patna division, Bihar, India
  • Also known as: “Bahar”, “Behar”, and “Bihār”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bihar Sharif Junction railway station and Tomb of Malik Ibrahim Bayu.

Railway station
Photo: Asqwlk, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, station code BEHS, is a railway station under Danapur railway division of East Central Railway. Bihar sharif is connected to metropolitan areas of India, by the Delhi–Kolkata main line via Mughalsarai–Patna route.

Monument
Photo: Odantapuribs, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a monument.

Bihar Sharif

Latitude
25.1939° or 25° 11′ 38″ north
Longitude
85.5209° or 85° 31′ 15″ east
Population
297,000
Elevation
68 metres (223 feet)
Open location code
7MQ75GVC+G8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 245730395
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1275716
Wiki­data ID
Q2308343
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Bihar Sharif” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Bihar Sharif”
  • Albanian: “Bihar Sharif”
  • Angika: “बिहार शरीफ”
  • Arabic: “بيهار شريف”
  • Aragonese: “Bihar Sharif”
  • Basque: “Bihar Sharif”
  • Bengali: “বিহার শরীফ”
  • Bhojpuri: “बिहारशरीफ”
  • Breton: “Bihar Sharif”
  • Catalan: “Bihar”
  • Cebuano: “Bihār Sharīf”
  • Chinese: “比哈尔沙里夫”
  • Chinese: “比哈尔谢里夫”
  • Chinese: “比哈爾沙里夫”
  • Croatian: “Bihar Sharif”
  • Czech: “Bihar Sharif”
  • Danish: “Bihar Sharif”
  • Dutch: “Bihar Sharif”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بيهار شريف”
  • Esperanto: “Bihar Ŝarif”
  • Esperanto: “Bihar Sharif”
  • Estonian: “Bihar Sharif”
  • Finnish: “Bihar Sharif”
  • French: “Bihar Sharif”
  • Galician: “Bihar Sharif”
  • German: “Bihar Sharif”
  • Greek: “Μπιχάρ Σαρίφ”
  • Gujarati: “બિહાર શરિફ”
  • Gujarati: “બિહાર શરીફ”
  • Hausa: “Bihar Sharif”
  • Hebrew: “ביהאר שריף”
  • Hebrew: “ביהר שריף”
  • Hindi: “बिहार शरिफ”
  • Hindi: “बिहार शरीफ”
  • Hindi: “बिहार शरीफ़”
  • Hindi: “बिहारशरीफ”
  • Hindi: “बिहारशरीफ़”
  • Hungarian: “Bihar Sharif”
  • Icelandic: “Bihar Sharif”
  • Indonesian: “Bihar Sharif”
  • Irish: “Bihar Sharif”
  • Italian: “Bihar Sharif”
  • Japanese: “ビハール・シャリーフ”
  • Kannada: “ಬಿಹಾರ ಶರೀಫ್”
  • Kannada: “ಬಿಹಾರ್ ಶರೀಫ್”
  • Kannada: “ಬಿಹಾರ್ ಷೆರೀಫ್”
  • Korean: “비하 샤리프”
  • Korean: “비하르 샤리프”
  • Latvian: “Biharšarifa”
  • Lithuanian: “Bihar Sharif”
  • Lombard: “Bihar Sharif”
  • Low German: “Bihar Sharif”
  • Luxembourgish: “Bihar Sharif”
  • Malagasy: “Bihar Sharif”
  • Malay: “Bihar Sharif”
  • Marathi: “बिहार शरीफ”
  • Nepali: “बिहारशरीफ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bihar Sharif”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bihar Sharif”
  • Norwegian: “Bihar Sharif”
  • Pampanga: “Bihar Sharif”
  • Persian: “بیهار”
  • Piemontese: “Bihar Sharif”
  • Polish: “Bihar Sharif”
  • Portuguese: “Bihar Sharif”
  • Romanian: “Bihar Sharif”
  • Russian: “Бихар-Шариф”
  • Russian: “Бихаршариф”
  • Sanskrit: “बिहारशरीफ”
  • Santali: “ᱵᱤᱦᱟᱨ ᱥᱚᱨᱤᱯᱷ”
  • Serbian: “Bihar Šarif”
  • Serbian: “Bihar Sharif”
  • Serbian: “Бихар Шариф”
  • Sinhala: “බිහාර් ෂරිෆ්”
  • Slovak: “Bihar Sharif”
  • Slovenian: “Bihar Sharif”
  • Spanish: “Bihar Sharif”
  • Swedish: “Bihar Sharif”
  • Swedish: “Biharsharif”
  • Swiss German: “Bihar Sharif”
  • Tagalog: “Bihar Sharif”
  • Tamil: “பிகார் செரீப்”
  • Tamil: “பீகார் ஷரீப்”
  • Tamil: “பீகார் ஷாரிஃ”
  • Telugu: “బిహార్ షరీఫ్”
  • Telugu: “బీహార్ షరీఫ్”
  • Thai: “พิหารชะรีฟ”
  • Turkish: “Bihar Şerif”
  • Turkish: “Bihar Sharif”
  • Ukrainian: “Біхар-Шаріф”
  • Urdu: “بہار شریف”
  • Vietnamese: “Bihar Sharif”
  • Walloon: “Bihar Sharif”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bihar Sharif”
  • Western Panjabi: “بِہار شریف”
  • “बिहारशरीफ”

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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 Sharif”. Photo: Abhishek.chandan, Public domain.