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Chikmagalur

Chikmagalur district, officially Chikkamagaluru district is an administrative district in the Malnad subregion of Karnataka, India. It was called Kadur district till 1947.
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, officially Chikkamagaluru, is a city in , known for its coffee plantations and Bababudan Giri ranges.

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is a small town in , in Chikmagaluru district of Karnataka. The Town is famous for the Shree Sharada Peetam, a Temple of the Goddess of knowledge, Devi Sharadamba, an incarnation of Devi Adi Parasakthi, which was established by Shri Adi Sankaracharya in the 8th Century CE.

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is in Chikmagalur in . It offers the visitor 600 km² of undulating mountains and tropical wet evergreen forest. It is noted for its scenic beauty.

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is a town, a taluk and is one of the two Subdivisional headquarter in the Chikmagalur district of state, . It is popularly known as gateway of Malnad because the Malnad area starts from here.

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, or Hornadu, is a small village in Mudigere Taluk of Chikmagalur District. It has a Hindu Holy Temple of Sri Adishaktyatmaka Annapurneshwari.

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is a hill station in Chikmagalur district. Kemmanagundi is a scenic hill station in the Baba Budan Giri range of hills. Karnataka's tallest peak, Mullayanagiri, is also part of the same hill ranges.

is a village located in the Koppa Taluk, Chikmagalur district district in the state of Karnataka, . The place has a matha of goddess Sharadamba on the banks of the River Tunga.

Chikmagalur

Latitude of center
13.49° or 13° 29′ 24″ north
Longitude of center
75.73° or 75° 43′ 48″ east
Population
1,140,000
Elevation
1,235 metres (4,052 feet)
Abbreviation
“CKM”
Geo­Names ID
1274221
Wiki­data ID
Q743077
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Chikmagalur” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “منطقة شيكماجالور”
  • Asturian: “Chikkamagaluru (distritu)”
  • Asturian: “Chikkamagaluru”
  • Asturian: “distritu de Chikkamagaluru”
  • Basque: “Chikkamagaluru barrutia”
  • Bengali: “চিকমাগালুর জেলা”
  • Bhojpuri: “चिक्कामगलुरु जिला”
  • Bishnupriya: “চিকমাগালুর”
  • Catalan: “districte de Chikkamagaluru”
  • Cebuano: “Chikmagalur (distrito sa Indya)”
  • Cebuano: “Chikmagalur”
  • Chinese: “Chikmagalur”
  • Chinese: “奇克馬加盧爾縣”
  • Chinese: “奇克马加卢尔”
  • Dutch: “Chikmagalur”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “شيكماجالور”
  • French: “district de Chikmagalur”
  • French: “District de Chikmagalur”
  • German: “Chikkamagaluru”
  • German: “Chikmagalur”
  • Gujarati: “ચિકમંગલૂર જિલ્લો”
  • Hebrew: “נפת צ’יקמאגאלור”
  • Hindi: “चिकमगलूर जिला”
  • Indonesian: “Distrik Chikkamagaluru”
  • Italian: “distretto di Chickmagalur”
  • Italian: “Distretto di Chickmagalur”
  • Japanese: “チッカマガルール県”
  • Japanese: “チックマガルール県”
  • Kannada: “ಚಿಕ್ಕಮಗಳೂರು ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ”
  • Kannada: “ಚಿಕ್ಕಮಗಳೂರು”
  • Malayalam: “ചിക്കമഗളൂർ ജില്ല”
  • Malayalam: “ചിക്കമഗ്ലൂർ”
  • Marathi: “चिकमगळूर जिल्हा”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Chikmagalur”
  • Nepali: “चिकमगलूर जिल्ला”
  • Newari: “चिक्कमगलूरु जिल्ला”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Chikmagalur”
  • Norwegian: “Chikmagalur”
  • Oriya: “ଚିକମାଗାଲୁର ଜିଲ୍ଲା”
  • Panjabi: “ਜਿਲ਼੍ਹਾ ਚਿਕਮਗਲੋਰ”
  • Persian: “بخش چیکماگالور”
  • Russian: “Чикмагалур”
  • Sanskrit: “चिक्कमगळूरुमण्डलम्”
  • Santali: “ᱪᱤᱠᱢᱚᱜᱚᱞᱩᱨ ᱦᱚᱱᱚᱛ”
  • Spanish: “Chikmagalur”
  • Spanish: “Distrito de Chikmagalur”
  • Swedish: “Chikkamagaluru”
  • Swedish: “Chikmagalur”
  • Tamil: “சிக்மகளூரு மாவட்டம்”
  • Telugu: “చికమగలూరు జిల్లా”
  • Telugu: “చిక్కమగళూరు జిల్లా”
  • Tulu: “ಚಿಕ್ಕಮಗಳೂರು ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ”
  • Tulu: “ಚಿಕ್ಕಮಗಳೂರು”
  • Urdu: “چکمگلور ضلع”
  • Vietnamese: “Chikmagalur”
  • Western Panjabi: “ضلع چکماگالر”
  • “चिक्कामगलुरु जिला”

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