Guwahati

Guwahati, the largest city in the state of , is the nerve centre of both the Assamese culture as well as the broader Northeast Indian culture.
  • City with 1,000,000 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 59 metres (194 feet)
  • …has the IATA airport code GAU
  • Description: largest city in the Indian state of Assam and also the largest metropolis in Northeastern India
  • Also known as
    “Gauhāti”
    “Gowhatty”
    “Guvāhāṭī”
    “Pragjyotisha”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Guwahati railway station and Assam State Museum.
is the smallest inhabited river islet…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include North Guwahati.
Guwahati, formerly known as Gauhati, is the largest…

Guwahati

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Latitude
26.1806° or 26° 10′ 50″ north
Longitude
91.7539° or 91° 45′ 14″ east
UN/LOCODE
IN GAW
Open location code
7MRH5QJ3+6H
Open­Street­Map ID
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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”
  • Bislama: “Guwahati”
  • Breton: “Guwahati”
  • Bulgarian: “Гувахати”
  • Burmese: “ဂူဝါဟာတီမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Gauhati”
  • Catalan: “Gawhati”
  • Catalan: “Gowhati”
  • Catalan: “Gowhatty”
  • Catalan: “Guwahati”
  • Cebuano: “Guwahati”
  • Central Bikol: “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”
  • Magahi: “गोहाटी”
  • 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: “گواہاٹی”
  • 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”

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