Deoghar

Deoghar, also called Baidyanath Dham, is a Hindu pilgrimage town in . It is famous for the Baidyanath temple.
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  • Type: City with 203,000 residents
  • Description: Headquarters of Deoghar district, Santhal Parganas, Jharkhand, India
  • Also known as: “बाबाधाम”, “बैद्यनाथधाम”, “டெஒகர்”, “ദിയോഗഢ്”, “ദേവ്ഗഢ്”, “데오가”, and “デオガール”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Baidyanath Temple and Baidyanathdham railway station.

Hindu temple
Photo: William Hodges, CC0.
is a dedicated to Shiva. It is located in Deoghar, in the Santhal Parganas division of the Indian state of . The temple complex comprises the central shrine of Baba Baidyanath along with 21 additional temples.

Railway station
is a railway station in , in the Indian state of . The station serves the Baidyanathdham area of Deoghar and is the closest station for pilgrims visiting the , one of the twelve Jyotirlingas of Lord Shiva.

College
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, Deoghar is a residential boys' senior secondary school in Deoghar, Jharkhand, India, established in 1922. It is the oldest institute of Ramakrishna Mission, and used to be visited by brother disciples of Swami Vivekananda.

Deoghar

Latitude
24.4898° or 24° 29′ 23″ north
Longitude
86.699° or 86° 41′ 57″ east
Population
203,000
Elevation
261 metres (856 feet)
IATA airport code
DGH
Open location code
7MP8FMQX+WJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 245723288
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1273241
Wiki­data ID
Q1192453
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In Other Languages

From Angika to Vietnamese—“Deoghar” goes by many names.
  • Angika: “देवघर”
  • Arabic: “دوغار”
  • Asturian: “Deoghar”
  • Basque: “Deoghar”
  • Bengali: “দেওঘর”
  • Bhojpuri: “देवघर”
  • Bishnupriya: “দেওঘর”
  • Bulgarian: “Деогхар”
  • Cebuano: “Deoghar”
  • Chinese: “德奥加尔”
  • Chinese: “德奧加爾”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Deogarh”
  • Danish: “Deoghar”
  • Dutch: “Deoghar”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “دوغار”
  • Esperanto: “Deogar”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Deoghar”
  • Finnish: “Deoghar”
  • French: “Deoghar”
  • German: “Deoghar”
  • Greek: “Ντεογκάρ”
  • Gujarati: “દેવધર”
  • Hindi: “देवघर”
  • Indonesian: “Deoghar”
  • Irish: “Deoghar”
  • Italian: “Deoghar”
  • Japanese: “デーオガル”
  • Kannada: “ದೇವಘರ್”
  • Kannada: “ದೇವ್ಘರ್”
  • Korean: “더허”
  • Ladin: “Deoghar”
  • Latvian: “Deogchara”
  • Lithuanian: “Deogcharas”
  • Magahi: “देओघर”
  • Magahi: “देवघर”
  • Maithili: “देवघर”
  • Malagasy: “Deoghar”
  • Malay: “Deoghar”
  • Malayalam: “ദേവ്ഘർ”
  • Marathi: “देवघर”
  • Mingrelian: “დეოგარჰი”
  • Nepali: “देवघर”
  • Newari: “देवघर”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Deoghar”
  • Norwegian: “Deoghar”
  • Oriya: “ଦେଓଗଡ଼”
  • Pampanga: “Deoghar”
  • Persian: “دیوگهار”
  • Polish: “Deoghar”
  • Portuguese: “Deoghar”
  • Russian: “Деогарх”
  • Russian: “Деогхар”
  • Sanskrit: “देवघर”
  • Santali: “ᱫᱮᱣᱜᱷᱟᱨ”
  • Serbian: “Deogar”
  • Serbian: “Деогар”
  • Sinhala: “දියෝගර්”
  • Spanish: “Deoghar”
  • Swedish: “Deoghar”
  • Tamil: “டீயோகார்”
  • Tamil: “தேவ்கர்”
  • Tatar: “Деогарх”
  • Telugu: “దేవ్ ఘర్”
  • Telugu: “దేవ్‌గఢ్”
  • Thai: “ดิโอฆาร”
  • Thai: “เทวฆร”
  • Turkish: “Deoghar”
  • Ukrainian: “Деогар”
  • Urdu: “دیو گھر”
  • Urdu: “دیوگھار”
  • Venetian: “Deoghar”
  • Vietnamese: “Deoghar”
  • “देवघर”

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