Northern Madhya Pradesh
Gwalior District
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Gwalior

Gwalior is a historic city in northern . Gwalior's history is reflected most famously in its fort, but also in the architecture of other buildings, and in addition, the city is known as a centre of Indian classical music.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Gwalior Fort and Captain Roop Singh Stadium.

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The Fort of Gwalior or the is a 6th-century defence hill fort in Gwalior, India. Mughal Emperor Babur called it the "pearl amongst the fortresses of Hind" because of its impregnability and magnificence and it has also been nicknamed the of India.

Stadium
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, is an international cricket stadium in Gwalior, . The stadium has hosted 12 ODI matches, the first one was played between India and West Indies on 22 January 1988.

Gwalior

Latitude
26.2037° or 26° 12′ 13″ north
Longitude
78.1574° or 78° 9′ 27″ east
Population
500,000
Elevation
220 metres (722 feet)
IATA airport code
GWL
United Nations Location Code
IN GWL
Open location code
7JRW6534+FW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 568412253
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1270583
Wiki­data ID
Q158467
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Gwalior” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Gwalior”
  • Arabic: “جواليور”
  • Arabic: “غواليور”
  • Arabic: “قاليور”
  • Arabic: “قواليور”
  • Arabic: “كواليا”
  • Armenian: “Գվալիոր”
  • Asturian: “Gwalior”
  • Basque: “Gwalior”
  • Belarusian: “Гваліёр”
  • Bengali: “গোয়ালিয়র”
  • Bhojpuri: “ग्वालियर”
  • Bishnupriya: “গৱালিয়র”
  • Breton: “Gwalior”
  • Catalan: “Gwalior”
  • Catalan: “Lashkar”
  • Cebuano: “Gwalior”
  • Chinese: “Gwalior”
  • Chinese: “瓜利尔”
  • Chinese: “瓜利爾”
  • Chinese: “瓜利雅”
  • Chinese: “瓜廖尔”
  • Chinese: “瓜廖爾”
  • Czech: “Gválijar”
  • Danish: “Gwalior”
  • Dutch: “Gwalior”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “قاليور”
  • Esperanto: “Gvalior”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Gwalior”
  • Finnish: “Gwalior”
  • French: “Gwalior”
  • French: “Gwâlior”
  • Georgian: “გვალიორი”
  • German: “Gwalior”
  • Greek: “Γκβαλιόρ”
  • Greek: “Γκβάλιορ”
  • Gujarati: “ગ્વાલિયર”
  • Gujarati: “ઢાંચો:Million-plus cities in India”
  • Hebrew: “גוואליור”
  • Hindi: “ग्वालियर”
  • Hungarian: “Gválijar”
  • Indonesian: “Gwalior”
  • Irish: “Gwalior”
  • Italian: “Gwalior”
  • Japanese: “グワーリヤル”
  • Japanese: “グワリオル”
  • Kannada: “ಗ್ವಾಲಿಯರ್”
  • Kannada: “ಗ್ವಾಲಿಯಾರ್”
  • Kashmiri: “گوالیار”
  • Korean: “괄리오르”
  • Korean: “그왈리오르”
  • Ladin: “Gwalior”
  • Latvian: “Gvālijara”
  • Latvian: “Gvaliora”
  • Lithuanian: “Gvalijaras”
  • Lithuanian: “Gvalioras”
  • Maithili: “ग्वालियर”
  • Malagasy: “Gwalior”
  • Malay: “Gwalior”
  • Malayalam: “Gwalior”
  • Malayalam: “ഗ്വാളിയർ”
  • Malayalam: “ഗ്വാളിയാർ”
  • Malayalam: “ഗ്വാളിയോർ”
  • Marathi: “ग्वालियर”
  • Marathi: “ग्वाल्हेर”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Gwalior”
  • Mingrelian: “გვალიორი”
  • Nepali: “ग्वालियर”
  • Newari: “ग्वालियर”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gwalior”
  • Norwegian: “Gwalior”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Gwalior”
  • Oriya: “Gwalior”
  • Oriya: “ଗ୍ୱାଲିଅର”
  • Ossetian: “Гвалиор”
  • Pampanga: “Gwalior”
  • Panjabi: “ਗਵਾਲੀਅਰ”
  • Persian: “گوالیور”
  • Polish: “Gwalijar”
  • Polish: “Gwalior”
  • Portuguese: “Gwalior”
  • Pushto: “گوالير”
  • Romanian: “Gwalior”
  • Russian: “Гвалиор”
  • Russian: “Гвалияр”
  • Sanskrit: “ग्वालियर”
  • Sanskrit: “ग्वालियर्”
  • Santali: “ᱜᱣᱟᱞᱤᱭᱚᱨ”
  • Scots: “Gwalior”
  • Serbian: “Gvalior”
  • Serbian: “Gwalior”
  • Serbian: “Гвалиор”
  • Silesian: “Gwalijar”
  • Sindhi: “گواليار”
  • Sinhala: “ග්වලියෝර්”
  • Slovenian: “Gwalior”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قوالیور”
  • Spanish: “Gwalior”
  • Swedish: “Gwalior”
  • Swedish: “Lashkar”
  • Talysh: “Gvalior”
  • Tamil: “குவாலியர்”
  • Telugu: “గ్వాలియర్ జిల్లా”
  • Telugu: “గ్వాలియర్”
  • Thai: “ควาลิยัร”
  • Turkish: “Gevaliyar”
  • Turkish: “Gwalior”
  • Ukrainian: “Гваліор”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґваліор”
  • Urdu: “گوالیار”
  • Uzbek: “Guvalyor”
  • Uzbek: “Gvaliyor”
  • Venetian: “Gwalior”
  • Vietnamese: “Gwalior”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Gwalior”
  • Western Panjabi: “گوالیار”
  • Wu Chinese: “瓜廖尔”
  • Yue Chinese: “瓜廖爾”
  • “ग्वालियर”

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