Hosur

Hosur is an industrial town in , on the bank of the River Ponnaiyar. It is considered the manufacturing twin of due to its presence of major manufacturing industries, compared to Bangalore's presence of major IT industries.
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  • Type: City with 117,000 residents
  • Description: Village in Krishnagiri District, Tamil Nadu, India
  • Also known as: “Oossoor”, “Ossoor”, and “Ossoore”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Hosur railway station.

Railway station
Photo: Gowtham Sampath, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a railway station serving Hosur. It is situated in the central part of the Hosur city.

Hosur

Latitude
12.7329° or 12° 43′ 58″ north
Longitude
77.8309° or 77° 49′ 51″ east
Population
117,000
Elevation
871 metres (2,858 feet)
United Nations Location Codes
IN HSR and IN HSU
Open location code
7J4VPRMJ+59
Open­Street­Map ID
node 983364958
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1269934
Wiki­data ID
Q297967
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Hosur” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “هسور”
  • Asturian: “Hosur”
  • Bengali: “হোশূর”
  • Bhojpuri: “होसुर”
  • Bishnupriya: “হোসুর”
  • Catalan: “Hosur”
  • Cebuano: “Hosūr”
  • Chinese: “賀蘇爾”
  • Chinese: “贺苏尔”
  • Chinese: “霍苏尔”
  • Dutch: “Hosur”
  • Esperanto: “Hosur”
  • French: “Hosur”
  • German: “Hosur”
  • Gujarati: “હોસુર”
  • Hindi: “होसूर”
  • Irish: “Hosur”
  • Italian: “Hosur”
  • Japanese: “ホスール”
  • Kannada: “ಹೊಸೂರು”
  • Kashmiri: “ہوسور”
  • Korean: “호수르”
  • Malagasy: “Hosur”
  • Malay: “Hosur”
  • Malayalam: “ഹൊസൂർ”
  • Marathi: “होसुर”
  • Marathi: “होसूर”
  • Newari: “होसुर”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hosur”
  • Norwegian: “Hosur”
  • Portuguese: “Hosur”
  • Russian: “Хосур”
  • Spanish: “Hosur”
  • Swedish: “Hosur”
  • Tamil: “ஒசூர்”
  • Tamil: “ஓசூர்”
  • Telugu: “హోసూర్”
  • Urdu: “ہوسور”
  • Uzbek: “Hosur”
  • Vietnamese: “Hosur”
  • “होसुर”

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