Govardhan
Govardhan or Giriraj is a key pilgrimage site in Uttar Pradesh, India. Each year, Hindus make pilgrimage to Govardhan from different parts of India and beyond.Photo: Vishwas008, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 5,000 residents
- Description: town in Mathura district, Uttar Pradesh, India
- Also known as: “Gobardhan”, “Govardhana”, and “Goverdhan”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Radha Kund.
Radha Kund
Village
Photo: Atarax42, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Radha Kund is a town and nagar panchayat in Mathura district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. It is also one of the pilgrimage sites dedicated to Hindu goddess Radha. Radha Kund is situated 4 km northeast of Govardhan.
Govardhan
- Category: locality
- Location: Govardhan, Mathura district, Braj, Uttar Pradesh, Plains, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
27.4973° or 27° 29′ 51″ northLongitude
77.4612° or 77° 27′ 40″ eastPopulation
5,000Elevation
189 metres (620 feet)Open location code
7JVVFFW6+WFOpenStreetMap ID
node 2275304393OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1270863Wikidata ID
Q1707255
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Assamese to Vietnamese—“Govardhan” goes by many names.
- Assamese: “গোবৰ্ধন”
- Asturian: “Govardhan”
- Bhojpuri: “गोवर्धन”
- Bulgarian: “Говардхан”
- Cebuano: “Govardhan”
- Chinese: “Govardhan”
- Chinese: “戈瓦尔丹”
- Chinese: “戈瓦爾丹”
- Dutch: “Govardhan”
- French: “Govardhan”
- Hindi: “गोवर्धन, मथुरा”
- Hindi: “गोवर्धन”
- Indonesian: “Govardhan”
- Italian: “Govardhan”
- Kashmiri: “گووردھن”
- Malagasy: “Govardhan”
- Malay: “Govardhan”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Govardhan”
- Panjabi: “ਗੋਵਰਧਨ”
- Polish: “Govardhan”
- Russian: “Гобардхан”
- Russian: “Говардхан”
- Spanish: “Govardhan (Uttar Pradesh)”
- Spanish: “Govardhan”
- Swedish: “Govardhan”
- Tamil: “கோவர்தன்”
- Urdu: “گووردھن”
- Vietnamese: “Govardhan”
- “गोवर्धन”
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