Jaunpur
Jaunpur is a city in the Purvanchal part of Eastern Uttar Pradesh. A historical town with Medieval era fort, bridges and mosques. The city was founded by Feroz Shah Tughlaq and named in memory of his cousin, Jaun.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Varun Shiv Kapur, CC BY 2.0.
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- Type: City with 180,000 residents
- Description: city in Uttar Pradesh, India
- Also known as: “Iionpoor”, “Jaunapura”, “Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh”, “Jionpoor”, and “Juanpore”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Jama Mosque, Jaunpur and Shahi Qila.
Jama Mosque, Jaunpur
Mosque
Photo: Varun Shiv Kapur, CC BY 2.0.
Jama Masjid, also known as Jama Mosque, Jami Masjid or Badi Masjid, one of the largest mosques in India, is a 15th-century mosque built by Hussain Shah Sharqi of the Jaunpur Sultanate in Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Shahi Qila
Park
Photo: Thomas Daniell, Public domain.
Shahi Qila, also known as Karar Fort or Jaunpur Fort, is a fort built during the 14th century in Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. The fort is located close to the Shahi Bridge on the Gomti River.
Jaunpur Junction railway station
Railway station
Jaunpur Junction, also known as Bhandariya railway station is a railway station in Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. The station is part of the Northern Railway zone's Lucknow NR Division and the Varanasi–Lucknow line via Jaunpur-Ayodhya.
Jaunpur
- Categories: big city, human settlement, and locality
- Location: Jaunpur, Jaunpur district, Purvanchal, Uttar Pradesh, Plains, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
25.7472° or 25° 44′ 50″ northLongitude
82.689° or 82° 41′ 20″ eastPopulation
180,000Elevation
85 metres (279 feet)United Nations Location Code
IN JPROpen location code
7MQ4PMWQ+VHOpenStreetMap ID
node 245738012OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Jaunpur” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جونبور”
- Arabic: “جونفور”
- Asturian: “Jaunpur”
- Azerbaijani: “Caunpur”
- Basque: “Jaunpur”
- Bengali: “জোউনপুর”
- Bengali: “জৌনপুর”
- Bhojpuri: “जौनपुर”
- Bhojpuri: “जौनापुर”
- Bishnupriya: “জৌয়ানপুর”
- Catalan: “Jaunpur (ciutat)”
- Catalan: “Jaunpur”
- Cebuano: “Jaunpur”
- Chinese: “Jaunpur”
- Chinese: “乔恩普尔”
- Chinese: “喬恩普爾”
- Chinese: “江布尔”
- Chinese: “江布爾”
- Czech: “Džaunpur”
- Dutch: “Jaunapura”
- Dutch: “Jaunpur”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جونبور”
- Esperanto: “Ĝaŭnpur”
- Finnish: “Jaunpur”
- French: “Jaunpur”
- French: “Jawnpur”
- French: “Sultanat de Jaunpur”
- German: “Jaunpur”
- Gujarati: “જૌનપુર”
- Hebrew: “ג’ואנפור”
- Hindi: “जौनपुर”
- Indonesian: “Jaunpur”
- Irish: “Jaunpur”
- Italian: “Jaunpur”
- Japanese: “ジャウンプル”
- Kannada: “ಜಾನ್ಪುರ್”
- Kannada: “ಜೌನಪುರ”
- Kashmiri: “جونپور، اترپردیش”
- Kashmiri: “جونپوٗر، اترپردیش”
- Korean: “자운푸르”
- Ladin: “Jaunpur”
- Maithili: “जौनपुर”
- Malay: “Jaunpur”
- Marathi: “जौनपुर”
- Marathi: “जौनपूर”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Jaunpur”
- Nepali: “जौनपुर”
- Newari: “जौनपुर”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Jaunpur”
- Norwegian: “Jaunpur”
- Oriya: “ଜୌନପୁର, ଉତ୍ତରପ୍ରଦେଶ”
- Persian: “جونپور”
- Polish: “Jaunpur”
- Portuguese: “Jaunpur”
- Russian: “Джаунпур”
- Sanskrit: “जौनपुरम्, उत्तरप्रदेशः”
- Sanskrit: “जौनपुरम्”
- Santali: “ᱡᱳᱣᱱᱯᱩᱨ, ᱩᱛᱛᱚᱨ ᱯᱨᱚᱫᱮᱥ”
- Santali: “ᱡᱳᱣᱱᱯᱩᱨ”
- Spanish: “Jaunpur”
- Swedish: “Jaunpur”
- Tamil: “ஜவுன்பூர்”
- Telugu: “జాన్పూర్”
- Telugu: “జౌన్పూర్”
- Ukrainian: “Джаунпур”
- Urdu: “جونپور، اترپردیش”
- Venetian: “Jaunpur”
- Vietnamese: “Jaunpur”
- Waray (Philippines): “Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh”
- Western Panjabi: “جون پور”
- Western Panjabi: “جونپور”
- “जौनपुर”
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