Haridwar
Haridwar, also spelt Hardwar, is a Hindu pilgrimage site at the Ganges River, in the Indian state of Uttarakhand.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 311,000 residents
- Description: city in India
- Also known as: “Hardwár” and “Hardwār”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Haridwar Junction railway station and Mansa Devi Temple.
Haridwar Junction railway station
Railway station
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Haridwar railway station, is one of the major railway stations in Haridwar district, Uttarakhand, India. It falls under the Moradabad division of the Northern Railway zone of the Indian Railways.
Mansa Devi Temple
Hindu temple
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Mansa Devi Temple, Haridwar is a Hindu temple dedicated to goddess Mansa Devi in the holy city of Haridwar in the Uttarakhand state of India. The temple is located atop the Bilwa Parvat on the Sivalik Hills, the southernmost mountain chain of the Himalayas.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kankhal and Har ki Pauri.
Kankhal
Hamlet
Kankhal is a small colony in Haridwar in the Haridwar district of Uttarakhand state in India. Mentioned in the Vayu Purana and the Mahabharata as Kanakhala, Kankhal is one of 'Panch Tirth' within Haridwar, with other spots being Gangadwara, Kushwart, Bilwa Teerth and Neel Parvat.
Har ki Pauri
Suburb
Photo: Dublinsantosh, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Har Ki Pauri is a sacred ghat on the banks of the Ganges River in the Hindu holy city of Haridwar, in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. It is believed to be the place where the Ganges leaves the mountains and enters the plains.
Haridwar
- Category: locality
- Location: Hardwar, Haridwar, Garhwal, Uttarakhand, Himalayan North, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
29.9384° or 29° 56′ 18″ northLongitude
78.1453° or 78° 8′ 43″ eastPopulation
311,000Elevation
295 metres (968 feet)Open location code
7JXWW4QW+94OpenStreetMap ID
node 1211180500OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1270351Wikidata ID
Q273030
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Haridwar” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Haridvari”
- Albanian: “Haridwari”
- Arabic: “هاريدوار”
- Armenian: “Խարդվար (քաղաք)”
- Armenian: “Խարդվար”
- Assamese: “হৰিদ্বাৰ”
- Asturian: “Haridwar”
- Basque: “Haridwar”
- Belarusian: “Хардвар”
- Bengali: “হরিদ্বার”
- Bhojpuri: “हरिद्वार”
- Bishnupriya: “হরদুৱার”
- Catalan: “Hardwar”
- Catalan: “Haridwar”
- Catalan: “Hariwar”
- Cebuano: “Haridwar”
- Chinese: “Haridwar”
- Chinese: “赫尔德瓦尔”
- Chinese: “赫爾德瓦爾”
- Chinese: “赫里德瓦尔”
- Chinese: “赫里德瓦爾”
- Czech: “Hardvár”
- Czech: “Haridvár”
- Czech: “Haridwar”
- Danish: “Haridwar”
- Dotyali: “हरिद्वार”
- Dutch: “Haridwar”
- Esperanto: “Haridvar”
- Esperanto: “Haridwar”
- Fiji Hindi: “Hardwar”
- Finnish: “Haridwar”
- French: “Haridwar”
- German: “Hardwar”
- German: “Haridwar”
- Gujarati: “હરદ્વાર”
- Gujarati: “હરિદ્વાર”
- Hebrew: “הארידוואר”
- Hebrew: “הרידוואר”
- Hindi: “Haridwar”
- Hindi: “हरिद्वार”
- Hungarian: “Haridvár”
- Indonesian: “Haridwar”
- Italian: “Haridwar”
- Japanese: “ハリドワール”
- Kannada: “ಹರಿದ್ವಾರ”
- Kashmiri: “ہری دوار”
- Korean: “하리드와르”
- Lithuanian: “Haridvaras”
- Maithili: “हरिद्वार”
- Malagasy: “Haridwar”
- Malay: “Haridwar”
- Malayalam: “Haridwar”
- Malayalam: “ഹരിദ്വാർ”
- Marathi: “हरिद्वार”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Haridwar”
- Mingrelian: “ჰარდვარი”
- Nepali: “हरिद्वार”
- Newari: “हरिद्वार”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Haridwar”
- Norwegian: “Haridwar”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Haridwar”
- Oriya: “Haridwar”
- Oriya: “ହରିଦ୍ଵାର”
- Oriya: “ହରିଦ୍ୱାର”
- Pampanga: “Haridwar”
- Panjabi: “ਹਰਦੁਆਰ”
- Panjabi: “ਹਰਿਦੁਆਰ”
- Persian: “هاریدوار”
- Polish: “Hardwar”
- Polish: “Haridvār”
- Polish: “Haridwar”
- Portuguese: “Haridwar”
- Romanian: “Haridwar”
- Russian: “Гангадвара”
- Russian: “Хардвар”
- Russian: “Харидвар”
- Sanskrit: “उत्तराखण्डः”
- Sanskrit: “गङ्गानदी”
- Sanskrit: “माया”
- Sanskrit: “हरिद्वार”
- Sanskrit: “हरिद्वारम्”
- Santali: “ᱦᱚᱨᱤᱫᱣᱟᱨ”
- Serbian: “Haridvar”
- Serbian: “Haridwar”
- Serbian: “Харидвар”
- Spanish: “Hardwar”
- Spanish: “Haridvar”
- Spanish: “Haridvara”
- Spanish: “Haridwar”
- Spanish: “Haridwār”
- Spanish: “Haridwara”
- Swedish: “Hardwar”
- Swedish: “Haridwar”
- Tamil: “அரித்துவார்”
- Tamil: “அரித்வார்”
- Tamil: “ஹரித்வார்”
- Tatar: “Хардвар”
- Telugu: “హరిద్వార్”
- Thai: “หริทวาร”
- Thai: “หริทวาระ”
- Turkish: “Haridwar”
- Ukrainian: “Гарідвар”
- Ukrainian: “Хардвар”
- Ukrainian: “Харідвар”
- Urdu: “ہری دوار”
- Urdu: “ہریدوار”
- Uzbek: “Haridwar”
- Vietnamese: “Haridwar”
- Waray (Philippines): “Haridwar”
- Western Panjabi: “ہریدوار”
- Wu Chinese: “赫尔德瓦尔”
- “हरिद्वार”
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