Karnal
Karnal is a city of 287,000 people in the National Capital Region in Haryana. The city associates itself with Karna, the great donor and warrior and of one of the major characters of the Hindu epic Mahābhārata. The city has built a large statue in his honour.
- Type: City with 287,000 residents
- Description: city and the headquarters of Karnal District in the Indian state of Haryana
- Also known as: “مدينة كرنال”, “कर्णालय”, and “கர்னல்”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Kalpana Chawla Government Medical College and Karnal railway station.
Karnal railway station
Karnal railway station, at an altitude of 253 metres…Karnal
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Karnal, Karnāl District, North Haryana, Haryana, Plains, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
29.6803° or 29° 40′ 49″ north
Longitude
76.9896° or 76° 59′ 23″ east
Population
287,000
Elevation
255 metres (837 feet)
UN/LOCODE
IN KRL
Open location code
7JXRMXJQ+4R
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Karnal” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كرنال”
- Asturian: “Karnal”
- Belarusian: “Карнал”
- Bengali: “কার্নাল”
- Bhojpuri: “करनाल”
- Bishnupriya: “কার্নাল”
- Catalan: “Karnal”
- Cebuano: “Karnāl”
- Chinese: “卡尔纳尔”
- Chinese: “卡爾納爾”
- Czech: “Karnal”
- Danish: “Karnal”
- Dutch: “Karnal”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كارنال”
- Esperanto: “Karnal”
- Finnish: “Karnal”
- French: “Karnal”
- Galician: “Karnal”
- German: “Karnal”
- Greek: “Καρνάλ”
- Gujarati: “કરનાલ”
- Hebrew: “קארנל”
- Hebrew: “קרנל”
- Hindi: “करनाल”
- Indonesian: “Karnal”
- Irish: “Karnal”
- Italian: “Karnal”
- Japanese: “カルナール”
- Kannada: “ಕರ್ನಾಲ್”
- Korean: “카날”
- Korean: “카르날”
- Latvian: “Karnala”
- Lithuanian: “Karnalas”
- Lithuanian: “Karnalis”
- Magahi: “करनाल”
- Maithili: “करनाल”
- Malagasy: “Karnal”
- Malay: “Karnal”
- Marathi: “करनाल”
- Marathi: “कर्नाल”
- Nepali: “करनाल”
- Newari: “कर्नाल”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Karnal”
- Norwegian: “Karnal”
- Oriya: “Karnal”
- Oriya: “କର୍ନଲ୍”
- Pampanga: “Karnal”
- Panjabi: “ਕਰਨਾਲ”
- Persian: “کرنال”
- Polish: “Karnal”
- Portuguese: “Karnal”
- Russian: “Карнал”
- Sanskrit: “करनाल”
- Sanskrit: “कर्नाल”
- Serbian: “Karnal”
- Serbian: “Карнал”
- Sinhala: “කමාල්”
- Slovak: “Karnal”
- Slovenian: “Karnal”
- South Azerbaijani: “کرنال”
- Spanish: “Karnal”
- Swedish: “Karnal”
- Tamil: “கர்னால்”
- Telugu: “కర్నాల్”
- Thai: “กรนาล”
- Turkish: “Karnal”
- Ukrainian: “Карнал”
- Urdu: “کرنال”
- Vietnamese: “Karnal”
- Waray (Philippines): “Karnal”
- Welsh: “Karnal”
- Western Panjabi: “کرنال”
- “करनाल”
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