Chandigarh

Chandigarh is 's first planned city, quite distinct from the rest of the country and considerably better organised. It is the capital of both and states, but the city is not part of either state, being a union territory, i.e. administered directly by the central government.
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  • Type: City with 1,030,000 residents
  • Description: capital of Punjab and Haryana states, Union Territory of India
  • Also known as: “Čandigara”, “Čandīgara”, “Ćandigarh”, “Ĉandigarh”, “Čandigarha”, “Čandigarhas”, “Chandi garh”, “Chandi-garh”, “Chandígar”, “Chańḍīgaṙh”, “Chandighar”, “IN-CH”, “Teritorij Chandigarh”, “Teritorija Čandigar”, “Teritorija Chandigarh”, “The city beautiful”, “Прекрасне місто”, “Територија Чандигар”, “Чандіґарх”, “Чандыгарг”, “צ’אנדיגר”, “צ’נדיגאר”, “צ’נדיגר”, “چندی گر”, “چندینگر”, “ڈوب”, “منگالور”, “ناحیه هم‌پیوسته چندی‌گر”, “चंडिगढ”, “चण्डिगड”, “चंदिगड”, “चंदीगड”, “चंदीगढ”, “ਖ਼ੂਬਸੂਰਤ ਸ਼ਹਿਰ”, “ચંદીગઢ”, “ଚଣ୍ଡୀଗଢ଼”, “சண்டிகார்”, “சண்டீகட்”, “சண்டீகர்”, “சந்திகர்”, “చండీఘడ్”, “చండీఘర్‌”, “చండీఘర్”, “చంఢీఘడ్”, “ಚಂಡಿಗಡ್‌”, “ಚಂಡೀಘರ್”, “ಚಂದಿಗಡ”, “ಚಂದೀಘರ್”, “ಸುಂದರ ನಗರ”, “ചണ്ഡിഗഡ്”, “ചണ്ഡിഗഡ്‌”, “ചണ്ഢീഗഡ്‍”, “シャンティーガル”, “チャンディーガル連邦直轄地”, “チャンディーガル連邦直轄地域”, “チャンディーガル連邦直轄領”, “チャンディガル連邦直轄地”, “チャンディガル連邦直轄地域”, “力量之神碉堡”, “昌第加”, “昌迪加尔行政区划”, and “昌迪加爾聯邦屬地”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Government Museum and Art Gallery and Sector 16 Cricket Stadium.

Museum
Photo: Sanyambahga, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, Chandigarh, is a public museum of having collections of Gandharan sculptures, sculptures from ancient and medieval India, Pahari and Rajasthani miniature paintings.

Stadium
Photo: Arygup05, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Sector 16 Stadium is a cricket stadium in Chandigarh, . It hosted its first One Day International match in January 1985 and its only Test match in 1990.

Garden
Photo: Ijon, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The is a sculpture garden in Chandigarh, . It is also known as Nek Chand Saini's Rock Garden of Nathupur after its founder Nek Chand Saini, a government official who started building the garden secretly in his spare time in 1957.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Dhanas.

Village
Photo: Harvinder Chandigarh, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a village Panchayat located in Chandigarh district in Chandigarh, India. The total geographical area of the village is about 5 km2 making it the second biggest village by area in the sub district.

Chandigarh

Latitude
30.7334° or 30° 44′ 0″ north
Longitude
76.7797° or 76° 46′ 47″ east
Population
1,030,000
Elevation
351 metres (1,152 feet)
IATA airport code
IXC
UN/LOCODE
IN IXC
Open location code
8J2RPQMH+9V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 342117043
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1274746
Wiki­data ID
Q43433
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Chandigarh” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Chandigarh”
  • Angika: “चण्डीगढ़”
  • Arabic: “شانديغار”
  • Arabic: “شنديغار”
  • Arabic: “شَنديغار”
  • Aragonese: “Chandigarh”
  • Armenian: “Չանդիգարհ”
  • Assamese: “চণ্ডীগড়”
  • Asturian: “Chandigarh”
  • Awadhi: “चंडीगढ़”
  • Azerbaijani: “Çandiqarh”
  • Balinese: “Chandigarh”
  • Basque: “Chandigarh”
  • Belarusian: “Чандыгарх”
  • Bengali: “চণ্ডীগড়”
  • Bengali: “চন্ডীগড়”
  • Bhojpuri: “𑂒𑂁𑂙𑂲𑂏𑂛”
  • Bishnupriya: “চন্ডিগড়”
  • Breton: “Chandigarh”
  • Bulgarian: “Чандигарх”
  • Catalan: “Chandigar”
  • Cebuano: “Chandigarh”
  • Central Kurdish: “چەندیگەر”
  • Chechen: “Чандигарх”
  • Chinese: “昌迪加”
  • Chinese: “昌迪加尔”
  • Chinese: “昌迪加爾”
  • Croatian: “Chandigarh”
  • Czech: “Čandígarh”
  • Danish: “Chandigarh”
  • Dhivehi: “ޗަންދީގަޅު”
  • Dotyali: “चण्डीगढ”
  • Dutch: “Chandigarh”
  • Esperanto: “Ĉandigaro”
  • Estonian: “Chandigarh”
  • Estonian: “Chandīgarh”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Chandigarh”
  • Finnish: “Chandigarh”
  • French: “Chandigarh”
  • Galician: “Chandigarh”
  • Georgian: “ჩანდიგარჰი”
  • German: “Chandigarh”
  • Goan Konkani: “Chanddigaddh”
  • Goan Konkani: “चंडीगढ”
  • Greek: “Τσαντιγκάρ”
  • Greek: “Τσαντίγκαρ”
  • Gujarati: “ચંડીગઢ”
  • Hebrew: “צ’אנדיגאר”
  • Hindi: “चंडीगढ़”
  • Hindi: “चण्डीगढ़”
  • Hungarian: “Csandígarh”
  • Icelandic: “Chandigarh”
  • Ido: “Chandigarh”
  • Indonesian: “Chandigarh”
  • Irish: “Chandigarh”
  • Italian: “Chandigarh”
  • Japanese: “チャンディーガル”
  • Kannada: “ಚಂಡೀಗಡ”
  • Kashmiri: “چَنٛڈی گَڑھ”
  • Komering: “Chandigarh”
  • Korean: “찬디가르”
  • Kurdish: “Çandîgar”
  • Ladin: “Chandigarh”
  • Latin: “Caṇḍīgaṛha”
  • Latin: “Chandigarh”
  • Latvian: “Čandīgarha”
  • Lithuanian: “Čandigarchas”
  • Macedonian: “Чандигар”
  • Magahi: “चण्डीगढ़”
  • Maithili: “चण्डीगढ”
  • Malagasy: “Chandigarh”
  • Malay: “Chandigarh”
  • Malayalam: “ചണ്ഡീഗഢ്”
  • Malayalam: “ചണ്ഢീഗഡ്”
  • Marathi: “चंदिगढ”
  • Mazanderani: “چندی‌گر”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Chandigarh”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Chandigarh”
  • Mingrelian: “ჩანდიგარჰი”
  • Nepali: “चण्डिगढ”
  • Nepali: “चण्डीगढ”
  • Newari: “चण्डीगढ”
  • Northern Frisian: “Chandigarh”
  • Northern Luri: “چأندیگئر”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Chandigarh”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Chandigarh”
  • Norwegian: “Chandigarh”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Chandigarh”
  • Oriya: “ଚଣ୍ଡୀଗଡ଼”
  • Ossetian: “Чандигар”
  • Pampanga: “Chandigarh”
  • Panjabi: “ਚੰਡੀਗੜ੍ਹ”
  • Persian: “چندیگر”
  • Persian: “چندی‌گر”
  • Polish: “Czandigarh”
  • Portuguese: “Chandigar”
  • Portuguese: “Chandigarh”
  • Pushto: “چندي گړ”
  • Romanian: “Chandigarh”
  • Russian: “Чандигарх”
  • Sanskrit: “चण्डीगढ”
  • Sanskrit: “चण्डीगढ़”
  • Santali: “ᱪᱚᱱᱰᱤᱜᱚᱲ”
  • Scots: “Chandigarh”
  • Serbian: “Чандигар”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Čandigar”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Chandigarh”
  • Sindhi: “چندي ڳڙھ”
  • Sinhala: “චන්දිගාර්”
  • Slovak: “Čandígarh”
  • Slovenian: “Čandigar”
  • South Azerbaijani: “چندیقر”
  • South Azerbaijani: “چندی‌گر”
  • Spanish: “Chandigarh”
  • Swahili: “Chandigarh”
  • Swedish: “Chandigarh”
  • Tagalog: “Chandigarh”
  • Tajik: “Чандигар”
  • Talysh: “Candigarh”
  • Tamil: “சண்டிகர்”
  • Tatar: “Чандигарх”
  • Tatar: “Чәндигарһ”
  • Telugu: “చండీగఢ్”
  • Telugu: “ఛండీగఢ్”
  • Thai: “จัณฑีครห์”
  • Tulu: “ಚಂಡೀಗಢ”
  • Turkish: “Çandigarh”
  • Turkish: “Çhandigarh”
  • Twi: “Chandigarh”
  • Twi: “Kyandiga”
  • Ukrainian: “Чандіґарг”
  • Ukrainian: “Чандігарх”
  • Urdu: “چندی گڑھ”
  • Urdu: “چنڈی گڑھ”
  • Uzbek: “Chandigarh”
  • Venetian: “Chandigarh”
  • Vietnamese: “Chandigarh”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Chandigarh”
  • Welsh: “Chandigarh”
  • Western Frisian: “Chandigarh”
  • Western Panjabi: “چندی گڑھ”
  • Wu Chinese: “昌迪加尔”
  • Yiddish: “טשאנדיגאר”
  • Yoruba: “Chandigarh”
  • Yue Chinese: “昌迪加爾”
  • “चंडीगढ़”

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