Hyderabad

Hyderabad, the "Pearl City", is the capital and largest city of in . Founded in the late 16th century on the hot and dry , Hyderabad is a city replete with history and traditions, as well as the wonderful palaces, mosques, bazaars, lakes and other heritage sites in the city.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include East Hyderabad and West Hyderabad.

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comprises the well-developed industrial suburbs at the east, with pharmaceutical factories and middle-class housing. Other than the occasional park and the odd restaurant, it is most visited for the resorts on the outskirts of the city, as well as Ramoji Film City.

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or Cyberabad is one of the newer areas of Greater Hyderabad, having developed along with the IT industry in the late 1990s.

is the modern city centre of Hyderabad, lying between the Musi River and Hussain Sagar Lake. It was developed after the Independence to house the government offices of the capital of Andhra Pradesh and later Telangana.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as South Hyderabad and North Hyderabad.

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is an area south of the of Hyderabad, . It is home to Rajiv Gandhi International Airport and Himayat Sagar.

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or Secunderabad is the twin city of Hyderabad, north and east of the Hussain Sagar. Despite being a part of Greater Hyderabad, Secunderabad has its own history and culture, separate from Hyderabad.

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is a fortified citadel on the opposite bank of the Musi River in present-day Hyderabad. It was built by Kakatiya ruler Prataparudra in the 11th century out of mud wall.

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The of Hyderabad is the historic centre of the city. Established by Mohammad Quli Qutb Shah in 1591, successive rulers of the Qutb Shahi dynasty and subsequently the Nizams ruled their domains from here.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Salar Jung Museum and Charminar.

Museum
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The is an art museum located at Dar-ul-Shifa, on the southern bank of the Musi River in the city of Hyderabad, , . It is one of the notable National Museums of India.

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The is a monument located in Hyderabad, , . Constructed in 1591, the landmark is a symbol of Hyderabad and officially incorporated in the emblem of Telangana.

Railway station
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is a non-suburban-2 category Indian railway station in Hyderabad railway division of South Central Railway zone. It is one of the four major railway stations in Hyderabad of the Indian state of .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Saidabad mandal and Nampally.

Suburb
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Saidabad is a mandal in Hyderabad District in , .

Suburb
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is one of the biggest and busiest neighbourhoods in Hyderabad, , . It is also a mandal in Hyderabad district. The biggest landmarks are Ibrahim House and , locally known as the Railway Station.

Suburb
is a suburb in Hyderabad, , . It is located close to the major commercial center, .

Hyderabad

Latitude
17.3814° or 17° 22′ 53″ north
Longitude
78.4994° or 78° 29′ 58″ east
Population
6,810,000
Elevation
515 metres (1,690 feet)
IATA airport code
HYD
United Nations Location Code
IN HYD
Open location code
7J9W9FJX+GP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 245640543
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1269843
Wiki­data ID
Q1361
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Hyderabad” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Hyderabad, Indië”
  • Albanian: “Hajderabad”
  • Albanian: “Hajderabadi”
  • Albanian: “Hiderabad”
  • Amharic: “ሃይደረባድ”
  • Arabic: “حيدر آباد”
  • Arabic: “حیدر آباد”
  • Aragonese: “Hyderabad”
  • Armenian: “Հայդարաբադ”
  • Assamese: “হাইদৰাবাদ”
  • Assamese: “হায়দৰাবাদ”
  • Asturian: “Hyderabad”
  • Azerbaijani: “Heydərabad”
  • Balinese: “Hyderabad”
  • Bashkir: “Хәйҙәрабад”
  • Basque: “Hyderabad”
  • Belarusian: “Гайдэрабад”
  • Belarusian: “Хайдарабад”
  • Belarusian: “Хайдэрабад”
  • Bengali: “হায়দরাবাদ”
  • Bengali: “হায়দ্রাবাদ”
  • Bhojpuri: “हैदराबाद”
  • Bishnupriya: “হায়দরাবাদ এম. কর্পোরেশন”
  • Bosnian: “Haidrābād”
  • Breton: “Hyderabad”
  • Bulgarian: “Хайдарабад”
  • Burmese: “ဟိုက်ဒရာဘတ်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Hyderabad”
  • Cebuano: “Haidrābād”
  • Cebuano: “Hyderabad”
  • Chechen: “Хайдарабад (Инди)”
  • Chechen: “Хьайдарабад”
  • Chinese: “Haiderabad”
  • Chinese: “海得拉巴”
  • Chinese: “海德拉巴”
  • Cornish: “Hyderabad”
  • Croatian: “Hyderabad”
  • Czech: “Haidarábád”
  • Czech: “Hajdarábád”
  • Danish: “Hyderabad”
  • Dotyali: “हैदराबाद”
  • Dutch: “Haiderabad”
  • Eastern Mari: “Хайдарабад (Индий)”
  • Eastern Mari: “Хайдарабад”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “حيدر اباد”
  • Esperanto: “Hajderabado”
  • Esperanto: “Hedrabado”
  • Estonian: “Hyderabad”
  • Estonian: “Hyderābād”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Hyderabad”
  • Fijian: “Hyderabad”
  • Finnish: “Hyderabad”
  • French: “Hyderabad”
  • Galician: “Hyderabad”
  • Georgian: “ჰაიდარაბადი”
  • German: “Hyderabad”
  • Gilaki: “حیدر آباد”
  • Greek: “Χαϊντεραμπάντ”
  • Gujarati: “હૈદરાબાદ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Hói-tet-là-pâ”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Hyderabad”
  • Hausa: “Hyderabad”
  • Hebrew: “היידראבאד”
  • Hindi: “मुत्याल नगर”
  • Hindi: “हैदराबाद”
  • Hindi: “हैदराबाद्”
  • Hungarian: “Haidarábád”
  • Hungarian: “Hyderabad”
  • Icelandic: “Hyderabad”
  • Indonesian: “Hyderabad”
  • Interlingue: “Hyderabad”
  • Irish: “Hyderabad”
  • Italian: “Haidrābād”
  • Italian: “Hyderabad”
  • Japanese: “ハイデラバード”
  • Kalaallisut: “Hyderabad”
  • Kannada: “ಹೈದರಾಬಾದ್‌, ಆಂಧ್ರ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
  • Kannada: “ಹೈದರಾಬಾದ್, ತೆಲಂಗಾಣ”
  • Kannada: “ಹೈದರಾಬಾದ್‌”
  • Kannada: “ಹೈದರಾಬಾದ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Haydarabad”
  • Kashmiri: “حیدر آباد”
  • Kashmiri: “حَیدَر آباد”
  • Kashmiri: “حیدرآباد”
  • Kazakh: “Хайдарабад”
  • Kirghiz: “Хайдарабад”
  • Komering: “Hyderabad”
  • Korean: “하이데라바드”
  • Ladin: “Hyderabad”
  • Latin: “Haidrābād”
  • Latin: “Hyderabadum”
  • Latvian: “Haidarābādu”
  • Lithuanian: “Haidarabadas”
  • Macedonian: “Хајдерабад”
  • Maithili: “हैदराबाद”
  • Malagasy: “Hyderabad, India”
  • Malay: “Hyderabad, India”
  • Malay: “Hyderabad”
  • Malayalam: “ഹൈദരാബാദ്”
  • Maori: “Hyderabad”
  • Marathi: “हैदराबाद”
  • Marathi: “हैद्राबाद”
  • Mazanderani: “حيدرآباد”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hyderabad”
  • Mingrelian: “ჰაიდარაბადი”
  • Moksha: “Гайдарабад (Индия)”
  • Moksha: “Гайдарабад”
  • Mongolian: “Хайдерабад”
  • Nepali: “हैदराबाद”
  • Newari: “हैदराबाद”
  • Northern Frisian: “Hyderabad”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hyderabad”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hyderabad”
  • Norwegian: “Hyderabad”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Haidarabad”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Hyderabad”
  • Oriya: “ହାଇଦ୍ରାବାଦ”
  • Ossetian: “Хайдарабад (сахар, Инди)”
  • Ossetian: “Хайдарабад”
  • Pampanga: “Hedrábad”
  • Pampanga: “Hyderabad, India”
  • Panjabi: “ਹੈਦਰਾਬਾਦ”
  • Persian: “حیدرآباد”
  • Polish: “Hajdarabad”
  • Polish: “Hyderabad”
  • Portuguese: “Haiderabade”
  • Portuguese: “Hyderabad”
  • Pushto: “حيدراباد، هند”
  • Romanian: “Hyderabad, India”
  • Romanian: “Hyderabad”
  • Russia Buriat: “Хайдарабад”
  • Russian: “Хайдарабад”
  • Russian: “Хайдерабад”
  • Russian: “Хайдрабад”
  • Sanskrit: “भाग्यनगरम्”
  • Sanskrit: “हैदराबाद् मण्डलम्”
  • Santali: “ᱢᱚᱛᱤ ᱥᱚᱦᱚᱨ”
  • Santali: “ᱦᱟᱭᱫᱨᱟᱵᱟᱫᱽ, ᱥᱤᱧᱚᱛ”
  • Santali: “ᱦᱟᱭᱫᱨᱟᱵᱟᱫᱽ”
  • Santali: “ᱵᱷᱟᱜᱽᱭᱚᱱᱚᱜᱚᱨ”
  • Scots: “Hyderabad”
  • Serbian: “Hajderabad”
  • Serbian: “Хајдерабад”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Hajderabad”
  • Silesian: “Hajdarabad (Indyje)”
  • Silesian: “Hajdarabad”
  • Sindhi: “حيدرآباد ھند”
  • Sindhi: “حيدرآباد، انڊيا”
  • Sindhi: “حيدرآباد، ڀارت”
  • Sindhi: “حيدرآباد”
  • Sindhi: “موتين جو شهر”
  • Sinhala: “හයිද්‍රාබාද්”
  • Slovak: “Hajdarábad”
  • Slovenian: “Haidarābād”
  • Slovenian: “Hajderabad”
  • Slovenian: “Hiderabad”
  • South Azerbaijani: “حئیدرآباد”
  • South Azerbaijani: “حیدرآباد”
  • Spanish: “Edrabad”
  • Spanish: “Haidrābād”
  • Spanish: “Hyderabad”
  • Swahili: “Hyderabad”
  • Swedish: “Hyderabad”
  • Tagalog: “Haidrābād”
  • Tagalog: “Hyderabad, India”
  • Tajik: “Ҳайдаробод”
  • Talysh: “Xajdarabad”
  • Tamil: “ஐதராபாத்து”
  • Tamil: “ஹைதராபாத்”
  • Tamil: “ஹைதெராபாத்”
  • Tatar: “Хәйдәрабад”
  • Telugu: “భాగ్యనగరం”
  • Telugu: “ముత్యాల నగరం”
  • Telugu: “హైదరాబాదు”
  • Telugu: “హైదరాబాద్”
  • Thai: “ไฮเดอราบาด”
  • Tulu: “ಹೈದರಾಬಾದ್, ಭಾರತ”
  • Turkish: “Haydarabad, Hindistan”
  • Turkish: “Haydarabad”
  • Turkmen: “Haýdarabat”
  • Twi: “Hyderabad”
  • Uighur: “ھەيدەرئاباد”
  • Ukrainian: “Гайдарабад”
  • Ukrainian: “Гайдерабад”
  • Urdu: “حیدر آباد دکن”
  • Urdu: “حیدر آباد”
  • Urdu: “حیدرآباد، دکن”
  • Urdu: “حیدرآباد”
  • Uzbek: “Haydarobod”
  • Venetian: “Hyderabad”
  • Veps: “Haidarabad”
  • Vietnamese: “Hyderabad, Ấn Độ”
  • Vietnamese: “Hyderabad”
  • Volapük: “Haidarabad”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hyderabad, India”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Hyderabad”
  • Welsh: “Hyderabad”
  • Western Panjabi: “حیدرآباد دکن”
  • Western Panjabi: “حیدرآباد، بھارت”
  • Western Panjabi: “حیدرآباد”
  • Wu Chinese: “海得拉巴 (印度)”
  • Wu Chinese: “海得拉巴（印度）”
  • Yiddish: “היידעראַבאַד”
  • Yue Chinese: “海得拉巴”
  • “हैदराबाद”

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