Purvanchal
Mirzapur
Chunar

Chunar

Chunar is a town in region of in . Located on the Banks of the Ganges it houses a mighty fort with over 2000 years of history.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Chunar Fort and Chunar Junction railway station.

Fort
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The is located in Mirzapur district of , in . The fort and Chunar town, near city, situated below the fort, are two historic places with common history and legends.

Railway station
is on the DDU–Kanpur section of the Howrah-New Delhi Main Line. A single electrified line goes for of the Sonbhadra district of .

Chunar

Latitude
25.1282° or 25° 7′ 42″ north
Longitude
82.8835° or 82° 53′ 1″ east
Population
37,200
Elevation
83 metres (272 feet)
Open location code
7MQ44VHM+7C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 245729538
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1273923
Wiki­data ID
Q1192683
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Chunar” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تشونار”
  • Asturian: “Chunar”
  • Bengali: “চুনার”
  • Bhojpuri: “चुनार”
  • Bishnupriya: “চুনার”
  • Catalan: “Chunar”
  • Cebuano: “Chunār”
  • Chinese: “Chunar”
  • Chinese: “丘納爾”
  • Chinese: “丘纳尔”
  • Dutch: “Chunar”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تشونار”
  • French: “Chunar”
  • German: “Chunar”
  • Gujarati: “ચુનાર”
  • Hindi: “चुनार”
  • Italian: “Chunar”
  • Japanese: “チュナール”
  • Kannada: “ಚುನಾರ್”
  • Kashmiri: “چنار، اتر پردیش”
  • Korean: “추나”
  • Malagasy: “Chunar”
  • Malay: “Chunar”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Chunar”
  • Nepali: “चुनार”
  • Newari: “चुनार”
  • Panjabi: “ਚੁਨਾਰ”
  • Polish: “Chunar”
  • Portuguese: “Chunar”
  • Russian: “Чунар”
  • Spanish: “Chunar”
  • Swedish: “Chunār”
  • Tamil: “சுனார்”
  • Telugu: “చునార్”
  • Urdu: “چنار، اتر پردیش”
  • Vietnamese: “Chunar”
  • Western Panjabi: “چنار”
  • “चुनार”

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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 “Chunar”. Photo: Paramanu Sarkar, CC BY-SA 4.0.