Gujarat

Gujarat is a state in the region of . Lothal, near to and Dholavira, near to are sites of a Harappan civilisation, which existed more than 4,000 years ago.
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is the seventh largest city in with a population of 8.5 million. Although it is the commercial hub of one of the most prosperous states of India, Gujarat, it's not the state capital, which is its twin city of , 30 km to the north.

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, a bustling commercial city in , is a major gemstone centre with over 92% of the world's diamonds being cut here. On the banks of the Tapi River, was a major port in medieval India as well as the early British colonial times till the formation of the city of Bombay.

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, also known as Baroda, is a city in , . It is named for the vaḍ trees that flourish in the area. It is known as the cultural capital of Gujarat.

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, a peninsular region in Gujarat, is the lower jaw of the lion-shaped state in western .

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is region which is geographically located in center of Gujarat in . It includes following districts: The population of this region is 21,221,431 people according to the 2011 Census of India.

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is part of the state of Gujarat in western . Much travel into the region comes via the state's largest city, , which is just to the south.

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covers the southern plains of Gujarat in western , bordering the to the east.

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is a district in the north-west of Gujarat, . It is the largest district in India, with an area of more than 45,000 km².

Gujarat

  • Type: State with 60,400,000 residents
  • Description: state of India
  • Also known as: “État du Goudjarat”, “Guĝaratlando”, “Guzerat”, “Guzeratte”, “IN-GJ”, “State of Gujarat”, “الكجرات”, “جوجورات”, “گجرات رياست”, “ગુજરાત રાજ્ય”, “குஜராத்”, “ᱜᱩᱡᱽᱨᱟᱛ”, “古加拉特邦”, “古茶拉底省”, “古茶拉底邦”, “瞿折羅”, and “胡茶辣”
  • Neighbors: , , , and
  • Categories: state of India and locality
  • Location: , , ,
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Latitude of center
23.2167° or 23° 13′ 0″ north
Longitude of center
72.6833° or 72° 40′ 60″ east
Population
60,400,000
Elevation
37 metres (121 feet)
Abbreviation
“GJ”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 7710055219
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
1270770
Wiki­data ID
Q1061
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Gujarat” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Gujarat”
  • Afrikaans: “Goedjarat”
  • Afrikaans: “Gujarat”
  • Albanian: “Guxharat”
  • Amharic: “ጉጀራት”
  • Amharic: “ጉጃራት”
  • Angika: “गुजरात”
  • Arabic: “غوجارات”
  • Arabic: “كجرات”
  • Aragonese: “Gucharat”
  • Armenian: “Գուջարաթ”
  • Assamese: “গুজৰাট”
  • Asturian: “Gujarat”
  • Awadhi: “गुजरात”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qucarat”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qücərat”
  • Balinese: “Gujarat”
  • Basque: “Gujarat”
  • Belarusian: “Гуджарат”
  • Bengali: “গুজরাত”
  • Bhojpuri: “गुजरात”
  • Bishnupriya: “গুজরাত”
  • Breton: “Gujarat”
  • Bulgarian: “Гуджарат”
  • Burmese: “ဂုဇရာတပြည်နယ်”
  • Burmese: “ဂုဇရာတ်”
  • Catalan: “Gujarat”
  • Cebuano: “State of Gujarāt”
  • Central Kurdish: “گوجەرات”
  • Chechen: “Гуджарат”
  • Chinese: “古吉拉特邦”
  • Corsican: “Gujarat”
  • Croatian: “Gudžarat”
  • Croatian: “Gudžerat”
  • Czech: “Gudžarát”
  • Danish: “Gujarat”
  • Dhivehi: “ގުޖުރާތު”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Gucerat”
  • Dotyali: “गुजरात”
  • Dutch: “Gujarat”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جوجرات”
  • Esperanto: “Guĝaratio”
  • Esperanto: “Guĝarato”
  • Estonian: “Gujarat”
  • Estonian: “Gujarāt”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Gujarat”
  • Finnish: “Gujarat”
  • French: “Gujarat”
  • Galician: “Gujarat”
  • Georgian: “გუჯარათი”
  • German: “Bundesstaat Gujarat”
  • German: “Gujarat”
  • Goan Konkani: “Gujrat”
  • Goan Konkani: “गुजरात”
  • Greek: “Γκουτζαράτ”
  • Gujarati: “ગુજરાત”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Gujarat”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Kú-kit-là-thi̍t-pâng”
  • Hausa: “Gujarat”
  • Hebrew: “גוג’ראט”
  • Hebrew: “גוגראט”
  • Hindi: “गुजरात”
  • Hungarian: “Gudzsarát”
  • Icelandic: “Gujarat”
  • Icelandic: “Gújarat”
  • Ido: “Gujarat”
  • Indonesian: “Gujarat”
  • Interlingua: “Gujarat”
  • Irish: “An Ghúisearáit”
  • Irish: “Gujarat”
  • Italian: “Gujarat”
  • Japanese: “グジャラート州”
  • Javanese: “Gujarat”
  • Kannada: “ಗುಜರಾತ್”
  • Kashmiri: “گُجرات”
  • Kazakh: “Гуджарат”
  • Kirghiz: “Гужарат”
  • Komering: “Gujarat”
  • Korean: “구자라트 주”
  • Korean: “구자라트”
  • Korean: “구자라트주”
  • Ladin: “Gujarat”
  • Latin: “Guzarata”
  • Latvian: “Gudžarāta”
  • Lezghian: “Гуджарат”
  • Lithuanian: “Gudžaratas”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Gudžarat”
  • Macedonian: “Гуџарат”
  • Magahi: “गुजरात”
  • Maithili: “गुजरात”
  • Malagasy: “Gujarat”
  • Malay: “Gujarat”
  • Malayalam: “ഗുജറാത്ത്”
  • Malayalam: “ഗുജറാത്ത്‌”
  • Manipuri: “ꯒꯨꯖꯔꯥꯠ”
  • Marathi: “गुजरात”
  • Mazanderani: “گجرات”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Gujarat”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Gujarat”
  • Mingrelian: “გუჯარათი”
  • Mongolian: “Гужарат”
  • Nepali: “गुजरात”
  • Newari: “गुजरात”
  • Northern Frisian: “Gujarat”
  • Northern Luri: “گوجأرات”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gujarat”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gujarat”
  • Norwegian: “Gujarat”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Gujarat”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Gucgerat”
  • Oriya: “ଗୁଜରାଟ”
  • Oromo: “Gujarat”
  • Ossetian: “Гуджарат”
  • Pampanga: “Gujarat”
  • Panjabi: “ਗੁਜਰਾਤ”
  • Persian: “گجرات”
  • Polish: “Gudźarat”
  • Portuguese: “Gujarate”
  • Portuguese: “Guzerate”
  • Pushto: “ګجرات”
  • Pushto: “گوجرات”
  • Romanian: “Gujarat”
  • Russian: “Гуджарат”
  • Sanskrit: “गुजरातराज्यम्”
  • Santali: “ᱜᱩᱡᱽᱨᱟᱴ”
  • Scots: “Gujarat”
  • Serbian: “Гуџарат”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Gudžarat”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Gujarat”
  • Sindhi: “گجرات”
  • Sinhala: “ගුජරාටය”
  • Slovak: “Gudžarát”
  • Slovenian: “Gudžarat”
  • Somali: “Gujarat”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قجرات”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قوجارات”
  • Spanish: “Gujarat”
  • Spanish: “Guyarat”
  • Swahili: “Gujarat”
  • Swedish: “Gujarat”
  • Tagalog: “Gujarat”
  • Tajik: “Гуҷарот”
  • Talysh: “Gučarat”
  • Tamil: “குசராத்”
  • Tamil: “குசராத்து”
  • Tatar: “Гөҗәрат”
  • Tatar: “Гуджарат”
  • Telugu: “గుజరాత్”
  • Thai: “รัฐคุชราต”
  • Tibetan: “གྷུ་ཇ་རཱཏ།”
  • Tulu: “ಗುಜರಾತ್”
  • Turkish: “Gucerat”
  • Turkish: “Gucerât”
  • Turkmen: “Güjerat”
  • Uighur: “گۇجارات”
  • Ukrainian: “Гуджарат”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґуджарат”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Gudźarat”
  • Urdu: “گجرات”
  • Uzbek: “Gujarat”
  • Uzbek: “Gujarot”
  • Venetian: “Gujarat”
  • Vietnamese: “Gujarat”
  • Walloon: “Goudjarat”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Gujarat”
  • Welsh: “Gujarat”
  • Western Frisian: “Gûdjarat”
  • Western Panjabi: “گجرات”
  • Wu Chinese: “古吉拉特邦”
  • Yiddish: “גודזשאראט”
  • Yiddish: “גודזשאַראַט”
  • Yoruba: “Gujarat”
  • Yue Chinese: “古吉拉特邦”
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