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Karkala

Karkala is a small town about 60 km from . It was a major center for Jainism during the Maurya and Vijaynagar empire and still holds remains of the architecture of that period in the form of Chaturmukha Baskadi and Bahubali statue.
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  • Type: Town with 10,000 residents
  • Description: town in Udupi district, Mysore division, Karnataka, India
  • Also known as: “Karaka” and “Kārkala”

Karkala

Latitude
13.2145° or 13° 12′ 52″ north
Longitude
74.9952° or 74° 59′ 43″ east
Population
10,000
Elevation
93 metres (305 feet)
Open location code
7J5P6X7W+R3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 245619070
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1267739
Wiki­data ID
Q2284508
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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Vietnamese—“Karkala” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Karkala”
  • Bengali: “করকাল”
  • Bengali: “ಕರಿಕಲ್ಲು”
  • Bengali: “ಕಾರ್ಕಲ್”
  • Bengali: “ಕಾರ್ಕಳ”
  • Bengali: “ಪಾಂಡ್ಯ ನಗರಿ”
  • Bishnupriya: “করকাল”
  • Cebuano: “Kārkāl”
  • Chinese: “Karkal”
  • Chinese: “卡尔卡拉”
  • Chinese: “卡爾卡拉”
  • Dutch: “Karkal”
  • French: “Karkal”
  • German: “Karkala”
  • Gujarati: “કર્કાલા”
  • Hindi: “करकला”
  • Hindi: “कर्कला”
  • Hindi: “कार्कल”
  • Indonesian: “Karkala”
  • Italian: “Karkal”
  • Japanese: “カーカラ”
  • Kannada: “ಕಾರ್ಕಳ”
  • Kashmiri: “کرکالا”
  • Korean: “카르칼라”
  • Malay: “Karkal”
  • Malayalam: “കർക്കല”
  • Malayalam: “കാർക്കല”
  • Malayalam: “കാർക്കള”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Karkal”
  • Newari: “कर्काल”
  • Portuguese: “Karkala”
  • Russian: “Каркала”
  • Spanish: “Karkal”
  • Swedish: “Karkal”
  • Swedish: “Karkala”
  • Tamil: “கர்கலா”
  • Tamil: “கார்கால”
  • Telugu: “కర్కల”
  • Tulu: “ಕಾರ್ಕಳ”
  • Urdu: “کارکل”
  • Urdu: “کرکالا”
  • Vietnamese: “Karkal”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Karkala”. Photo: Shravan Nayak k, CC BY-SA 4.0.