Kanpur

Kanpur is the largest city in the state of , . It was known as Cawnpore in colonial times and is a major industrial centre of the .
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  • Type: City with 2,770,000 residents
  • Description: city in Uttar Pradesh, India
  • Also known as: “Caunpore”, “Caunpour”, “Cawnpoor”, “Cawnpoore”, “Cawnpore”, “Cawnpour”, “Cawnpur”, “Kanhapur”, “Kanhiyapur”, “Kanhpour”, “Kannpur”, “Kanphur”, “Kānpwr”, “Karnapur”, “Katampur”, “Kawnpore”, “Khanpore”, “Leather City of India”, “Manchester of the East”, “कर्णपुर”, and “ઢાંચો:Million-plus cities in India”
  • Historically known as: “Cawnporne”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Kanpur Anwarganj railway station and Govindpuri railway station.

Railway station
Photo: Godric ki Kothri, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kanpur Anwarganj is the second-largest railway station…

Railway station
Govindpuri Junction or Kanpur South is a railway…

College
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Kanpur

Latitude
26.4609° or 26° 27′ 39″ north
Longitude
80.3218° or 80° 19′ 18″ east
Population
2,770,000
Elevation
137 metres (449 feet)
IATA airport code
KNU
UN/LOCODE
IN KNU
Open location code
7MR2F86C+9P
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1180652177
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1267995
Wiki­data ID
Q66568
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Kanpur” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kanpur”
  • Angika: “कानपुर”
  • Arabic: “كانبور”
  • Aragonese: “Kanpur”
  • Armenian: “Կանպուր”
  • Asturian: “Kanpur”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kanpur”
  • Balinese: “Kanpur”
  • Basque: “Kanpur”
  • Belarusian: “Канпур”
  • Bengali: “কানপুর”
  • Bhojpuri: “कानपुर”
  • Bishnupriya: “কানপুর”
  • Breton: “Kanpur”
  • Bulgarian: “Канпур”
  • Catalan: “Kanpur”
  • Cebuano: “Kānpur”
  • Chechen: “Канпур”
  • Chinese: “坎普尔”
  • Chinese: “坎普爾”
  • Cornish: “Kanpur”
  • Croatian: “Kanpur”
  • Czech: “Kánpur”
  • Danish: “Kanpur”
  • Dotyali: “कानपुर”
  • Dutch: “Kanpur”
  • Eastern Mari: “Канпур”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كانبور”
  • Esperanto: “Kanpur”
  • Esperanto: “Kanpuro”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Kanpur”
  • Finnish: “Kanpur”
  • French: “Kanpur”
  • Galician: “Kanpur”
  • Georgian: “კანპური”
  • German: “Kanpur”
  • Greek: “Κανπούρ”
  • Gujarati: “કાનપુર”
  • Hausa: “Kanpur”
  • Hebrew: “קאנפור”
  • Hindi: “कानपुर”
  • Hungarian: “Kánpur”
  • Icelandic: “Kanpur”
  • Indonesian: “Kanpur”
  • Irish: “Kanpur”
  • Italian: “Kanpur”
  • Japanese: “カーンプル”
  • Kalaallisut: “Kanpur”
  • Kannada: “ಕಾನ್ಪುರ”
  • Kashmiri: “کانپوٗر”
  • Kinaray-A: “Kampurë”
  • Kirghiz: “Канпер”
  • Korean: “칸푸르”
  • Ladin: “Kanpur”
  • Latvian: “Kānpura”
  • Lithuanian: “Kanpuras”
  • Magahi: “कानपुर”
  • Maithili: “कानपुर”
  • Malagasy: “Kanpur”
  • Malay: “Kanpur, Kanpur Nagar”
  • Malay: “Kanpur”
  • Malayalam: “കാൺപൂർ”
  • Maori: “Kanpur”
  • Marathi: “कानपूर”
  • Mazanderani: “کانپور”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kanpur”
  • Mingrelian: “კანპური”
  • Mongolian: “Канпур”
  • Nepali: “कानपुर”
  • Newari: “कानपुर”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kanpur”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kanpur”
  • Norwegian: “Kanpur”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kanpur”
  • Oriya: “କାନପୁର”
  • Ossetian: “Канпур”
  • Pampanga: “Kampura”
  • Pampanga: “Kanpur”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਾਨਪੁਰ”
  • Persian: “کان‌پور”
  • Polish: “Kanpur”
  • Portuguese: “Kanpur”
  • Pushto: “کانپور”
  • Romanian: “Kanpur”
  • Russia Buriat: “Канпур”
  • Russian: “Канпур”
  • Sanskrit: “कानपुरम्”
  • Santali: “ᱠᱟᱱᱯᱩᱨ”
  • Scots: “Kanpur”
  • Serbian: “Канпур”
  • Sinhala: “කාන්පුර්”
  • Slovenian: “Kanpur”
  • Spanish: “Kanpur”
  • Swahili: “Kanpur”
  • Swedish: “Kanpur”
  • Tagalog: “Kanpur”
  • Talysh: “Kanpur”
  • Tamil: “கான்பூர்”
  • Tatar: “Канпур”
  • Telugu: “కాన్పూరు”
  • Thai: “กานปุระ”
  • Turkish: “Kanpur”
  • Twi: “Kanpur”
  • Ukrainian: “Канпур”
  • Urdu: “کان پور”
  • Urdu: “کانپور”
  • Uzbek: “Kanpur”
  • Venetian: “Kanpur”
  • Vietnamese: “Kanpur”
  • Volapük: “Kanpur”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kanpur”
  • Welsh: “Kanpur”
  • Western Panjabi: “کانپور”
  • Wu Chinese: “坎普尔”
  • Yue Chinese: “坎浦”
  • “Kānpur”
  • “कानपुर”

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