Jharkhand
Dhanbad District
Dhanbad Cum Kenduadih Cum Jagata

Dhanbad

Dhanbad is a city in ; it is considered the coal capital of India. The coalfields around Dhanbad are known as the Jharia coalfields. They cover an area of around 448 km2, the total reserve of coal is estimated at 5,000 million tonnes.
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  • Type: City with 1,160,000 residents
  • Description: City of Jharkhand, India
  • Also known as: “Coal capital”, “Dhanabad”, “Dhanbād”, and “Dhanbaid”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Dhanbad Junction railway station.

Railway station
Photo: Superfast1111, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, station code DHN, is a railway station of the Indian railway serving the city of Dhanbad, the headquarters of in the Indian state of .

Dhanbad

Latitude
23.7953° or 23° 47′ 43″ north
Longitude
86.431° or 86° 25′ 52″ east
Population
1,160,000
Elevation
247 metres (810 feet)
IATA airport code
DBD
United Nations Location Code
IN DBD
Open location code
7MM8QCWJ+49
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2516759396
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1272979
Wiki­data ID
Q244159
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Dhanbad” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Dhanbad”
  • Arabic: “دانباد”
  • Arabic: “دنباد”
  • Armenian: “Դհանբադ”
  • Asturian: “Dhanbad”
  • Belarusian: “Дханбад”
  • Bengali: “ধানবাদ”
  • Bhojpuri: “धनबाद”
  • Bishnupriya: “ধানাবাদ”
  • Cebuano: “Dhanbād”
  • Chechen: “Дханбад”
  • Chinese: “Dhanbad”
  • Chinese: “丹巴德”
  • Chinese: “达恩巴德”
  • Czech: “Dhanbad”
  • Czech: “Dhanbád”
  • Danish: “Dhanbad”
  • Dutch: “Dhanbad”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “دانباد”
  • Esperanto: “Dhanbad”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Dhanbad”
  • Finnish: “Dhanbad”
  • French: “Dhanbad”
  • Galician: “Dhanbad”
  • Georgian: “დჰანბადი”
  • German: “Dhanbad”
  • Greek: “Ντχανμπάντ”
  • Gujarati: “ધનબાદ”
  • Hebrew: “דנבאד”
  • Hindi: “कोयला पूंजी”
  • Hindi: “धनबाद”
  • Indonesian: “Dhanbad”
  • Italian: “Dhanbad”
  • Japanese: “ダーンバード”
  • Japanese: “ダンバード”
  • Kannada: “ಧನ್ಬಾದ್”
  • Kashmiri: “دھنباد”
  • Korean: “단바드”
  • Latvian: “Danbada”
  • Lithuanian: “Dhanbadas”
  • Maithili: “धनबाद”
  • Malagasy: “Dhanbad”
  • Malay: “Dhanbad”
  • Malayalam: “Dhanbad”
  • Malayalam: “ധൻബാദ്”
  • Marathi: “धनबाद”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Dhanbad”
  • Mingrelian: “დჰანბადი”
  • Nepali: “धनबाद”
  • Newari: “धनबाद”
  • Newari: “धन्बाद”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dhanbad”
  • Norwegian: “Dhanbad”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Dhanbad”
  • Oriya: “ଧାନବାଦ”
  • Ossetian: “Дханбад”
  • Pampanga: “Dhanbad”
  • Panjabi: “ਧਨਬਾਦ”
  • Persian: “دانباد”
  • Polish: “Dhanbad”
  • Portuguese: “Dhanbad”
  • Pushto: “دان اباد”
  • Russian: “Дханбад”
  • Sanskrit: “धनबाद”
  • Santali: “ᱠᱚᱭᱞᱟ ᱨᱟᱡᱽᱜᱟᱲ”
  • Santali: “ᱫᱷᱟᱱᱵᱟᱫᱽ”
  • Scots: “Dhanbad”
  • Serbian: “Danbad”
  • Serbian: “Dhanbad”
  • Serbian: “Данбад”
  • Sinhala: “ඩන්බාද්”
  • South Azerbaijani: “دانباد”
  • Spanish: “Dhanbad”
  • Spanish: “Dhanbād”
  • Swedish: “Dhanbad”
  • Talysh: “Dhanbad”
  • Tamil: “தன்பாத்”
  • Telugu: “ధన్‌బాద్”
  • Thai: “ดันแบด”
  • Thai: “ธนพาท”
  • Turkish: “Dhanbad”
  • Ukrainian: “Дханбад”
  • Urdu: “دھنباد”
  • Vietnamese: “Dhanbad”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Dhanbad”
  • Western Panjabi: “دھنباد”
  • “धनबाद”

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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 “Dhanbad”. Photo: 1984abhionwiki, CC BY-SA 4.0.