Rajasthan
Bikaner Division
Bikaner

Bikaner

Bikaner is a city in the Indian state of . It is situated approximately 330 kilometres northwest of the state capital, , in the region of western Rajasthan.
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  • Type: City with 648,000 residents
  • Description: city in Bikaner district, Rajasthan, India
  • Also known as: “Bekaner” and “Bīkaner”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Junagarh Fort and Bikaner Junction railway station.

Photo: Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a fort in the city of Bikaner, , . The fort was originally called Chintamani and was renamed Junagarh or "Old Fort" in the early 20th century when the ruling family moved to outside the fort limits.

Railway station
Photo: Kishlay RF, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bikaner railway station is located in in the Indian state of . It serves Bikaner. Bikaner is headquarters of Bikaner railway division.

Jain temple
Photo: Yashkhajanchi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
or Bhanda Shah Jain temple, is a Śvetāmbara Jain temple located in Bikaner, . The temple is famous for wall painting and art work. This temple is protected by the Archaeological Survey of India.

Bikaner

Latitude
28.0159° or 28° 0′ 57″ north
Longitude
73.3171° or 73° 19′ 2″ east
Population
648,000
Elevation
229 metres (751 feet)
IATA airport code
BKB
United Nations Location Codes
IN BKB and IN BRI
Open location code
7JWM2888+9V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1405754324
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1275665
Wiki­data ID
Q200718
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“Bikaner” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بيكانر”
  • Arabic: “بيكانير”
  • Armenian: “Բիկաներ”
  • Asturian: “Bikaner”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bikaner”
  • Basque: “Bikaner”
  • Bengali: “বিকানীর”
  • Bhojpuri: “बीकानेर”
  • Bishnupriya: “বিকানের”
  • Catalan: “Bikaner (ciutat)”
  • Catalan: “Bikaner”
  • Cebuano: “Bīkāner”
  • Chinese: “Bikaner”
  • Chinese: “比卡內爾”
  • Chinese: “比卡内尔”
  • Czech: “Bikaner”
  • Czech: “Bikanér”
  • Czech: “Bíkáner”
  • Czech: “Bíkánér”
  • Danish: “Bikaner”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Bikaner”
  • Dutch: “Bikaner”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بيكانر”
  • Esperanto: “Bikaner”
  • Esperanto: “Bikanero”
  • Finnish: “Bikaner”
  • French: “Bikaner”
  • French: “Bikâner”
  • French: “Bîkâner”
  • Georgian: “ბიკანერი”
  • German: “Bikaner”
  • Greek: “Μπικάνερ”
  • Gujarati: “બિકાનેર”
  • Hebrew: “ביקאנר”
  • Hindi: “बीकानेर”
  • Hungarian: “Bíkánér”
  • Indonesian: “Bikaner”
  • Irish: “Bikaner”
  • Italian: “Bikaner”
  • Japanese: “ビーカーネール”
  • Kannada: “ಬಿಕಾನೆರ್‌”
  • Kannada: “ಬಿಕಾನೆರ್”
  • Kashmiri: “بیکانیر”
  • Korean: “비카네르”
  • Ladin: “Bikaner”
  • Latvian: “Bīkānera”
  • Lithuanian: “Bikaneras”
  • Maithili: “बीकानेर”
  • Malagasy: “Bikaner”
  • Malay: “Bikaner”
  • Marathi: “बिकानेर”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Bikaner”
  • Mingrelian: “ბიკანერი”
  • Nepali: “बिकानेर”
  • Nepali: “बीकानेर”
  • Newari: “बिकानेर”
  • Newari: “बीकानेर”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bikaner”
  • Norwegian: “Bikaner”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bikaner”
  • Oriya: “ବିକାନେର”
  • Pampanga: “Bikaner”
  • Panjabi: “ਬੀਕਾਨੇਰ”
  • Persian: “بیکانر”
  • Polish: “Bikaner”
  • Portuguese: “Bikaner”
  • Romanian: “Bikaner”
  • Russian: “Биканер”
  • Sanskrit: “बीकानेर”
  • Santali: “ᱵᱤᱠᱟᱱᱮᱨ”
  • Scots: “Bikaner”
  • Serbian: “Bikaner”
  • Serbian: “Биканер”
  • Silesian: “Bikaner”
  • Sindhi: “بڪانير”
  • Sindhi: “بيڪانير”
  • Sinhala: “බිකනර්”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بیکانر”
  • Spanish: “Bikaner”
  • Swedish: “Bikaner”
  • Talysh: “Bikaner”
  • Tamil: “பிகானேர்”
  • Tatar: “Биканер”
  • Telugu: “బికనీర్”
  • Telugu: “బికానెర్ జిల్లా”
  • Telugu: “బికానెర్‌ జిల్లా”
  • Telugu: “బికానెర్”
  • Thai: “พิกาเนร์”
  • Thai: “พิฆเนร์”
  • Turkish: “Bikaner”
  • Ukrainian: “Біканер”
  • Urdu: “بیکانیر”
  • Uzbek: “Bikaner”
  • Venetian: “Bikaner”
  • Vietnamese: “Bikaner”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Bikaner”
  • Western Panjabi: “بیکانیر”
  • Wu Chinese: “比卡内尔”
  • “बीकानेर”

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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 Wikipedia page “Bikaner”. Photo: Pablo Nicolás Taibi Cicaré, CC BY 2.0.