Janakpur
Janakpur is a major city of religious and historical importance in the Eastern Terai region of Nepal. It is a popular place of pilgrimage for Hindus from all around the world and a major tourist attraction in the region.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 95,000 residents
- Description: city in Dhanusha District, Nepal
- Also known as: “Janak Pur”, “Janakpur Dham”, “Janakpur Upmahanagarpalika”, “Janakpurdham”, “Janakpurdham Upmahanagarpalika”, and “Janakpurdham, Province No. 2, Nepal”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Janakpur Airport.
Janakpur Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Sicherlich, CC BY 3.0.
Janakpur Airport is an airport serving Janakpur, a city in Mithila region of Nepal and the administrative headquarters of the Dhanusa District in Madhesh Province in Nepal.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bindhi.
Bindhi
Suburb
Bindhi is a village development committee in Dhanusa District in the Janakpur Zone of south-eastern Nepal. At the 1991 Nepal census, it had a population of 4,409 persons living.
Janakpur
- Categories: sub-metropolitan municipality of Nepal and locality
- Location: Janakpur, Dhanusa, Madhesh Province, Eastern Tarai, Nepal, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
26.7285° or 26° 43′ 42″ northLongitude
85.9249° or 85° 55′ 30″ eastPopulation
95,000Elevation
83 metres (272 feet)IATA airport code
JKRUnited Nations Location Code
NP JKROpen location code
7MR7PWHF+9XOpenStreetMap ID
node 806482934OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1283318Wikidata ID
Q378649
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Janakpur” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جاناكبور”
- Aragonese: “Janakpur”
- Asturian: “Janakpurdham”
- Awadhi: “जनकपुर”
- Basque: “Janakpur”
- Belarusian: “Джанакпур”
- Bengali: “জনকপুর”
- Bhojpuri: “जनकपुर, नेपाल”
- Bhojpuri: “जनकपुर”
- Cebuano: “Janakpur”
- Chinese: “札納普爾”
- Chinese: “賈納克布爾”
- Chinese: “賈納克普爾”
- Chinese: “贾纳克布尔”
- Chinese: “贾纳克普尔”
- Dotyali: “जनकपुर”
- Dutch: “Janakpur”
- Esperanto: “Janakpur”
- Finnish: “Janakpur”
- Finnish: “Janakpurdham”
- French: “Janakpur”
- German: “Janakpur”
- German: “Janakpurdham”
- Greek: “Τζανακπούρ”
- Hebrew: “ג’נקפור”
- Hindi: “जनकपुर”
- Hindi: “जनकपुरधाम”
- Indonesian: “Janakpur”
- Italian: “Janakpur”
- Japanese: “ジャナクプル”
- Kannada: “ಜನಕಪುರ”
- Korean: “자낙푸르”
- Kurdish: “Janakpur”
- Lithuanian: “Džanakpuras”
- Magahi: “जनकपुर”
- Magahi: “जनकपुरधाम”
- Maithili: “जनकपुर उपमहानगरपालिका”
- Maithili: “जनकपुरधाम”
- Malay: “Janakpur”
- Malayalam: “ജനക്പൂർ”
- Marathi: “जनकपूर”
- Mingrelian: “ჯანაკპური”
- Nepali: “जनकपुर उपमहानगरपालिका”
- Nepali: “जनकपुरधाम उपमहानगरपालिका”
- Nepali: “जनकपुरधाम”
- Newari: “जनकपुर नगरपालिका”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Janakpur”
- Norwegian: “Janakpur”
- Persian: “جاناکپور”
- Persian: “جنکپور”
- Polish: “Dźanakpur”
- Polish: “Janakpur”
- Portuguese: “Janakpur”
- Russian: “Джанакпур”
- Santali: “ᱡᱚᱱᱚᱠᱯᱩᱨ”
- Slovenian: “Džanakpur”
- Slovenian: “Džanakpurdham”
- Spanish: “Janakpur”
- Swedish: “Janakpur”
- Tamil: “ஜனக்பூர்”
- Tatar: “Джанакпур”
- Thai: “ชนกปุรธาม”
- Thai: “ชนกปุระ”
- Ukrainian: “Джанакпур”
- Urdu: “جناکپردھم”
- Urdu: “جنک پور”
- Urdu: “جنکپور”
- “जनकपुर, नेपाल”
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