Gadag
Gadag is a city in the Gadag District of northern Karnataka, India. It is one of India's great overlooked temple towns: a cluster of 11th–12th century monuments built in the distinctive ornate "Gadag style" of the Western Chalukya empire, combined with a literary claim to fame as the place where the Kannada poet Kumara Vyasa is said to have composed his celebrated retelling of the Mahabharata.- Type: Town with 100,000 residents
- Description: Twin cities in Karnataka
- Also known as: “Betagiri”, “Gadag-Betageri”, “Gadaga”, “Γκαντάγκ”, “Μπεταγκέρι”, “बेटगेरि”, “ਗਦਗ”, “கடக்-பெட்டகேறி”, “గదగ్-బెటగేరి”, and “గదగ్-బెట్గేరీ”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Gadag Junction railway station.
Gadag Junction railway station
Railway station
Gadag Junction railway station is a NSG-4 Category railway station under South Western Railway in Gadag district, Karnataka. It serves Gadag-Betageri. The station consists of three platforms.
Gadag
- Categories: town in India and locality
- Location: Gadag, Northwestern Karnataka, Karnataka, Southern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
15.4222° or 15° 25′ 20″ north
Longitude
75.6377° or 75° 38′ 16″ east
Population
100,000
Elevation
665 metres (2,182 feet)
Open location code
7J7QCJCQ+V3
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Gadag” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جاداج بيتاجيري”
- Bavarian: “Gadag-Betageri”
- Bengali: “গদাগ-বেতিগেরি”
- Bhojpuri: “गडग-बैटागैरी”
- Bishnupriya: “গদাগ-বেতিগেরি”
- Catalan: “Gadag-Betigeri”
- Chinese: “加达格-贝蒂盖里”
- Chinese: “嘎达格贝塔基里”
- Chinese: “嘎達格貝塔基里”
- Dutch: “Gadag-Betageri”
- Esperanto: “Gadag-Betigeri”
- French: “Gadag-Betageri”
- German: “Gadag-Betageri”
- Greek: “Γκαντάγκ-Μπεταγκέρι”
- Gujarati: “ગડગ”
- Hindi: “गडग”
- Hindi: “गदग-बेटगेरी”
- Italian: “Gadag-Betageri”
- Japanese: “ガダッグ・ベタゲリ”
- Kannada: “ಗದಗ-ಬೆಟಗೇರಿ”
- Kannada: “ಗದಗ”
- Korean: “가닥-베타게리”
- Ladin: “Gadag-Betageri”
- Magahi: “गदग-बेटगेरि”
- Malagasy: “Gadag-Betageri”
- Malay: “Gadag-Betigeri”
- Marathi: “गदग”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Gadag-Betigeri”
- Newari: “गदग”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gadag-Betageri”
- Norwegian: “Gadag-Betageri”
- Panjabi: “ਗਦਾਗ-ਬੇਟਾਗੇਰੀ”
- Polish: “Gadag-Betigeri”
- Portuguese: “Gadag-Betigeri”
- Russian: “Гадаг-Бетигери”
- Sanskrit: “गदग”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Gadag”
- Spanish: “Gadag-Betageri”
- Swedish: “Gadag-Betageri”
- Swedish: “Gadag-Betigeri”
- Tamil: “கதக் - பெட்டகேரி”
- Telugu: “గదగ్”
- Tulu: “ಗದಗ ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ”
- Tulu: “ಗದಗ್”
- Urdu: “جاداج-بیتاجیری”
- Urdu: “گدگ-بیٹگیری”
- Vietnamese: “Gadag-Betigeri”
- Waray (Philippines): “Gadag-Betgeri”
- “गडग-बैटागैरी”
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