Cherrapunji
Cherrapunji, is a town in East Khasi Hills district in the Indian state of Meghalaya. The town receives 11,777 mm of rain per year, but that is less than half as much rain as in the days a few decades ago when it was still known as the wettest place on Earth.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 11,700 residents
- Description: town of Meghalaya, India
- Also known as: “Cherra”, “Cherra Punji”, “Cherrapunjee”, “Cherripunji”, “Sohra”, and “Sohra (Cherrapunji)”
Cherrapunji
- Categories: capital city, tourism, tourist attraction, and locality
- Location: Shella Bholaganj, East Khasi Hills District, Meghalaya, North-Eastern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
25.2777° or 25° 16′ 40″ northLongitude
91.7292° or 91° 43′ 45″ eastPopulation
11,700Elevation
1,505 metres (4,938 feet)Open location code
7MQH7PHH+3MOpenStreetMap ID
node 245731299OpenStreetMap feature
place=townOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Cherrapunji” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تشيرابونجي”
- Armenian: “Չերապունջի”
- Asturian: “Cherrapunji”
- Azerbaijani: “Çerapunci”
- Azerbaijani: “Ceropunçi”
- Basque: “Cherrapunji”
- Bengali: “চেরাপুঞ্জি”
- Bhojpuri: “चेरापूँजी”
- Bishnupriya: “চেরাপুঞ্জি”
- Bosnian: “Cherrapunji”
- Catalan: “Cherrapunji”
- Cebuano: “Cherrapunji”
- Chinese: “Cherrapunji”
- Chinese: “乞拉朋吉”
- Chinese: “乞拉朋齊”
- Chinese: “乞拉朋齐”
- Chinese: “車剌潘治”
- Czech: “Čérápuňdží”
- Dutch: “Cherrapunji”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تشيرابونجى”
- Finnish: “Cherrapunji”
- French: “Cherrapungi”
- French: “Cherrapunjee”
- French: “Cherrapunji”
- French: “Tcherrapounji”
- Georgian: “ჩერაპუნჯი”
- German: “Cherrapunjee”
- German: “Cherrapunji”
- Gujarati: “ચેરાપુંજી”
- Hindi: “चेरापूंजी (सोहरा)”
- Hindi: “चेरापूंजी”
- Hungarian: “Cserápundzsi”
- Hungarian: “Sohra”
- Indonesian: “Cherrapunji”
- Italian: “Cerrapungi”
- Italian: “Cerrapunji”
- Italian: “Cherrapunjee”
- Japanese: “チェラプンジ”
- Kannada: “ಚಿರಾಪುಂಜಿ”
- Kannada: “ಚೇರಾಪುಂಜಿ”
- Kirghiz: “Черапунжи”
- Korean: “체라푼지”
- Ladin: “Cherrapunji”
- Lithuanian: “Čerapundžis”
- Malay: “Cherapunjee”
- Malayalam: “Cherrapunji”
- Malayalam: “ചിറാപുഞ്ചി”
- Marathi: “चेरापुंजी”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Cherrapunji”
- Nepali: “चेरापूँजी”
- Nepali: “चेरापूंजी”
- Newari: “चेरापुंजी”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cherrapunji”
- Oriya: “ଚେରାପୁଂଜି”
- Oriya: “ଚେରାପୁଞ୍ଜି”
- Oriya: “ଚେରାପୁଞ୍ଜୀ”
- Panjabi: “ਚੇਰਾਪੂੰਜੀ”
- Persian: “چراپونچی”
- Persian: “سهرا”
- Polish: “Czerapundżi”
- Polish: “Czerapuńdżi”
- Polish: “Czerrapundżi”
- Portuguese: “Cherapunjee”
- Portuguese: “Cherapunji”
- Romanian: “Cherrapunji”
- Russian: “Черапунджи”
- Russian: “Черрапунджи”
- Sanskrit: “चेरापूँजी”
- Sanskrit: “चेरापूञ्जी”
- Serbian: “Čerapundži”
- Serbian: “Черапунџи”
- Slovak: “Čérápuňdží”
- Slovak: “Cherrapunji”
- Spanish: “Cherrapunji”
- Swedish: “Cherrapunjee”
- Swedish: “Cherrapunji”
- Tamil: “சிரபுஞ்சி”
- Tamil: “சோரா”
- Telugu: “చిరపుంజీ”
- Turkish: “Çerapunçi”
- Ukrainian: “Черрапунджі”
- Vietnamese: “Cherapunjee”
- Welsh: “Cherrapunji”
- Yue Chinese: “車剌潘治”
- “चेरापूँजी”
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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 “Cherrapunji”. Photo: JakilDedhia, CC BY-SA 4.0.