Lower Assam
Kamrup Metropolitan District
Guwahati

Guwahati

Guwahati, previously Gauhati, is the capital and the largest city in the state of . Guwahati is one of the fastest-growing cities in India.
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  • Type: City with 1,000,000 residents
  • Description: largest city in the Indian state of Assam and also the largest metropolis in Northeastern India
  • Also known as: “Gauhāti”, “Gowhatty”, “Guvāhāṭī”, “Guwāhāti”, and “Pragjyotisha”
  • Historically known as: “Gauhati”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Guwahati railway station and Assam State Museum.

Railway station
Photo: Suraj Kumar Das, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is located in the heart of the city of Guwahati, . It is the first fully solar-operated railway station in India. It has been rated as A1-category station.

Museum
Photo: Saumya.purkayastha, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The , previously Assam Provincial Museum, is located in the southern end of Dighalipukhuri tank which is in the heart of Guwahati city, .

Forest
is the smallest inhabited river islet in the middle of river Brahmaputra, flowing through the city of Guwahati in , a state in northeast .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include North Guwahati.

Suburb
Photo: Bhaskarbhagawati, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Guwahati is the largest city of the Indian state of , and also the largest metropolis in northeastern India. , the capital of Assam, is in the circuit city region located within Guwahati and is the seat of the Government of Assam.

Guwahati

Latitude
26.1806° or 26° 10′ 50″ north
Longitude
91.7539° or 91° 45′ 14″ east
Population
1,000,000
Elevation
59 metres (194 feet)
IATA airport code
GAU
United Nations Location Code
IN GAW
Open location code
7MRH5QJ3+6H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 566672802
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1271476
Wiki­data ID
Q199605
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Guwahati” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Guwahati”
  • Albanian: “Guvahati”
  • Angika: “गुवाहाटी”
  • Arabic: “جواهاتي”
  • Arabic: “غواهاتي”
  • Aragonese: “Guwahati”
  • Armenian: “Գաուհատի”
  • Armenian: “Գուվահաթի”
  • Assamese: “গুৱাহাটি”
  • Assamese: “গুৱাহাটী”
  • Assamese: “গৌহাটি”
  • Assamese: “গৌহাটী”
  • Asturian: “Guwahati”
  • Azerbaijani: “Quvahati”
  • Bagupi: “গুৱাহাটি”
  • Basque: “Guwahati”
  • Belarusian: “Гувахаці”
  • Bengali: “গুয়াহাটি”
  • Bengali: “গৌহাটি”
  • Bhojpuri: “गुवाहाटी”
  • Bhojpuri: “गौहाटी”
  • Bhojpuri: “प्रागज्योतिषपुर”
  • Bishnupriya: “গুৱাহাটি”
  • Breton: “Guwahati”
  • Bulgarian: “Гувахати”
  • Burmese: “ဂူဝါဟာတီမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Gauhati”
  • Catalan: “Gawhati”
  • Catalan: “Gowhati”
  • Catalan: “Gowhatty”
  • Catalan: “Guwahati”
  • Cebuano: “Guwahati”
  • Central Bikol: “Guwahati”
  • Chinese: “Guwahati”
  • Chinese: “古瓦哈提”
  • Chinese: “古瓦哈蒂”
  • Chinese: “高哈蒂”
  • Croatian: “Guwahati”
  • Czech: “Gauhati”
  • Czech: “Guváhátí”
  • Czech: “Guwahati”
  • Danish: “Guwahati”
  • Dotyali: “गुवाहाटी”
  • Dutch: “Gauhati”
  • Dutch: “Guwahati”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جواهاتى”
  • Esperanto: “Guvahati”
  • Finnish: “Gauhati”
  • Finnish: “Guwahati”
  • French: “Gauhati”
  • French: “Gauhatî”
  • French: “Guwahati”
  • French: “Pragjyotisha”
  • Georgian: “გუვაჰატი”
  • German: “Gauhati”
  • German: “Guwahati”
  • Greek: “Γκαουχάτι”
  • Greek: “Γουβαχάτι”
  • Gujarati: “ગુવાહટી”
  • Gujarati: “ગુવાહાટી”
  • Gujarati: “ગૌહત્તી”
  • Hebrew: “גוואהטי”
  • Hebrew: “גוואתי”
  • Hindi: “गुवाहाटी”
  • Hindi: “गौहाटी”
  • Hungarian: “Gauháti”
  • Indonesian: “Guwahati”
  • Irish: “Guwahati”
  • Italian: “Distretto di Kamrup”
  • Italian: “Gauhati”
  • Italian: “Guwahati”
  • Japanese: “グワーハーティー”
  • Japanese: “グワハティ”
  • Kannada: “ಗುವಾಹಟಿ”
  • Kannada: “ಗುವಾಹಾಟಿ”
  • Kannada: “ಗುಹಾವತಿ”
  • Kashmiri: “گوہاٹی”
  • Kirghiz: “Гаухати”
  • Korean: “가우하티”
  • Korean: “구와하티”
  • Ladin: “Guwahati”
  • Latvian: “Gauhātī”
  • Latvian: “Guvahati”
  • Lithuanian: “Guvahatis”
  • Macedonian: “Гувахати”
  • Magahi: “गुवाहाटी”
  • Maithili: “गुवाहाटी”
  • Malagasy: “Guwahati”
  • Malay: “Guwahati”
  • Malayalam: “Guwahati”
  • Malayalam: “ഗുവഹത്തി”
  • Malayalam: “ഗുവഹാത്തി”
  • Malayalam: “ഗുവാഹട്ടി”
  • Malayalam: “ഗുവാഹത്തി”
  • Malayalam: “ഗോഹാട്ടി”
  • Marathi: “गुवाहाटी”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Guwahati”
  • Mingrelian: “გუვაჰატი”
  • Nepali: “गुवाहाटी”
  • Nepali: “गौहाटी”
  • Newari: “गुवाहाटी”
  • Northern Frisian: “Guwahati”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gauhati”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Guwahati”
  • Norwegian: “Guwahati”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Guwahati”
  • Oriya: “ଗୁଆହାଟୀ”
  • Oriya: “ଗୌହାଟୀ”
  • Pampanga: “Guwahati”
  • Panjabi: “ਗੁਹਾਟੀ”
  • Persian: “گوآهاتی”
  • Persian: “گواتی”
  • Polish: “Gauhati”
  • Polish: “Guwahati”
  • Portuguese: “Guwahati”
  • Pushto: “گواهتي”
  • Romanian: “Guwahati”
  • Russian: “Гаухати”
  • Russian: “Гувахати”
  • Sanskrit: “गुवहाटि”
  • Sanskrit: “गुवहाटी”
  • Sanskrit: “गुवाहाटी”
  • Santali: “ᱜᱩᱣᱟᱦᱟᱴᱤ”
  • Scots: “Guwahati”
  • Serbian: “Guvahati”
  • Serbian: “Guwahati”
  • Serbian: “Гавахати”
  • Serbian: “Гувахати”
  • Silesian: “Guwahati”
  • Sinhala: “ගවහටි”
  • Slovenian: “Guvahati”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قواتی”
  • Spanish: “Gauhati”
  • Spanish: “Gauhāti”
  • Spanish: “Guwahati”
  • Swedish: “Dispur”
  • Swedish: “Gauhati”
  • Swedish: “Guwahati”
  • Sylheti: “ꠉꠥꠀ ꠀꠐꠤ”
  • Sylheti: “ꠉꠥꠀꠢꠣꠐꠤ ꠘꠉꠞ”
  • Sylheti: “ꠉꠥꠀꠢꠣꠐꠤ”
  • Talysh: “Guvahati”
  • Tamil: “கவுகாத்தி”
  • Tamil: “குவகாத்தி”
  • Tamil: “குவஹாட்டி”
  • Tamil: “குவஹாத்தி”
  • Tamil: “குவாஹாட்டி”
  • Telugu: “గువహాటి”
  • Telugu: “గౌహతి”
  • Telugu: “గౌహాతి”
  • Thai: “กูวาฮาติ”
  • Thai: “คุวาหาฏี”
  • Turkish: “Guwahati”
  • Ukrainian: “Гаухаті”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґаухаті”
  • Ukrainian: “Гувахаті”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґувахаті”
  • Urdu: “گوہاٹی”
  • Venetian: “Guwahati”
  • Vietnamese: “Guwahati”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Guwahati”
  • Welsh: “Gauhati”
  • Welsh: “Gawahati”
  • Welsh: “Guwahati”
  • Western Panjabi: “گوہاٹی”
  • Western Panjabi: “گوواہاتی”
  • Wu Chinese: “古瓦哈提”
  • Yue Chinese: “高哈蒂”
  • “गुवाहाटी”

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