Karnataka
A state in Southern India, Karnataka stretches from Belgaum in the north to Mangalore in the south. It has a coastal region with numerous coconut trees and beautiful beaches and an interior with mountains, valleys and farmlands.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Bangalore and Mysore.
Bangalore
Bangalore, also known as Bengaluru, is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. It is a large, cosmopolitan city with a large working population. Bangalore is the major centre of India's information technology industry and is known worldwide as the "Silicon Valley of India".
Mysore
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Mysore, officially Mysuru, is the second-most populous city of the state of Karnataka after Bangalore. It was the capital of the Wodeyar dynasty and is considered to be the cultural capital of Karnataka.
Mangalore
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Mangalore, in the Coastal Karnataka region, is a blend of new and old. With the increasing influx of students from various states of India and different parts of the world, Mangalore has virtually become a 'melting pot' of cultures, given the various…
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Cauvery Basin and Karavali.
Cauvery Basin
The Mysore region is a region that is part of Karnataka state in southern India. It forms approximately the southern half of the non-coastal areas of that state.
Karavali
Karavali is Karnataka's coastal region. It is the transitional zone between Konkan and Malabar coasts.
Southeastern Karnataka
Kolar district is a district in the state of Karnataka, India. Kolar is the district headquarters. Located in southern Karnataka, it is the state's easternmost district.
Northern Karnataka
Northern Karnataka is a region in Karnataka. It is home to the stunning religious and archeological site of Hampi, capital of the Vijayanagara Empire. One part of Hyderabad State, Northern Karnataka is full of other-worldly geology and nature.
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Karnataka
- Type: State with 61,100,000 residents
- Description: Indian state
- Also known as: “State of Karnataka”
- Historically known as: “Mysore” and “State of Mysore”
- Neighbors: Andhra Pradesh, Goa, Kerala, Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, and Telangana
- Categories: state of India and locality
- Location: Southern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude of center
14.5935° or 14° 35′ 37″ northLongitude of center
75.7178° or 75° 43′ 4″ eastPopulation
61,100,000Elevation
554 metres (1,818 feet)Abbreviation
“KA”OpenStreetMap ID
node 13395044030OpenStreetMap feature
place=stateGeoNames ID
1267701Wikidata ID
Q1185
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Karnataka” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Karnataka”
- Afrikaans: “Karnataka”
- Albanian: “Karnataka”
- Amharic: “ካርናተከ”
- Angika: “कर्नाटक”
- Arabic: “كارناتاكا”
- Arabic: “كرناتك”
- Arabic: “كَرْنَاتَكُ”
- Aragonese: “Karnataka”
- Armenian: “Կառնատակա”
- Assamese: “কৰ্ণাটক”
- Asturian: “Karnataka”
- Awadhi: “कर्नाटक”
- Azerbaijani: “Karnataka”
- Balinese: “Karnataka”
- Basque: “Karnataka”
- Bavarian: “Karnataka”
- Belarusian: “Карнатака”
- Bengali: “কর্ণাটক”
- Bhojpuri: “कर्नाटक”
- Bishnupriya: “কর্ণাটক”
- Breton: “Karnataka”
- Bulgarian: “Карнатака”
- Burmese: “ကရဏာဋကပြည်နယ်”
- Burmese: “ကာနာတာကာပြည်နယ်”
- Catalan: “Estat de Karnataka”
- Catalan: “Karnataka”
- Cebuano: “State of Karnātaka”
- Central Bikol: “Karnataka”
- Central Kurdish: “کارناتاکا”
- Chechen: “Карнатака”
- Chinese: “Karnataka”
- Chinese: “卡納塔克邦”
- Chinese: “卡纳塔克邦”
- Croatian: “Karnataka”
- Czech: “Karnátaka”
- Danish: “Karnataka”
- Dhivehi: “ކަރްނާޓަކާ”
- Dotyali: “कर्नाटक”
- Dutch: “Karnataka”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كارناتاكا”
- Esperanto: “Karnatako”
- Estonian: “Karnataka”
- Fiji Hindi: “Karnataka”
- Finnish: “Karnataka”
- French: “Karnataka”
- Galician: “Karnataka”
- Georgian: “კარნატაკა”
- German: “Karnataka”
- Goan Konkani: “Kornattok”
- Goan Konkani: “कर्नाटक”
- Greek: “Καρνάτακα”
- Gujarati: “કર્ણાટક”
- Hakka Chinese: “Karnataka”
- Hakka Chinese: “Khà-na̍p-thap-khiet-pâng”
- Hausa: “Karnataka”
- Hebrew: “קרנאטקה”
- Hebrew: “קרנטקה”
- Hindi: “कर्नाटक”
- Hungarian: “Karnátaka”
- Icelandic: “Karnataka”
- Ido: “Karnataka”
- Indonesian: “Karnataka”
- Irish: “Karnataka”
- Italian: “Karnataka”
- Japanese: “カルナータカ”
- Japanese: “カルナータカ州”
- Kannada: “ಕರುನಾಡು”
- Kannada: “ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ”
- Kashmiri: “کرناٹک”
- Kashmiri: “کَرناٹَک”
- Komering: “Karnataka”
- Korean: “카르나타카 주”
- Korean: “카르나타카”
- Korean: “카르나타카주”
- Ladin: “Karnataka”
- Latin: “Carnatica”
- Latvian: “Karnātaka”
- Lithuanian: “Karnataka”
- Lower Sorbian: “Karnataka”
- Macedonian: “Карнатака”
- Maithili: “कर्नाटक”
- Maithili: “कर्नाटका”
- Malagasy: “Karnataka”
- Malay: “Karnataka”
- Malayalam: “കന്നടനാട്”
- Malayalam: “കർണാടക”
- Marathi: “कर्नाटक”
- Mazanderani: “کارناتاکا”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Karnataka”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Karnataka”
- Mingrelian: “კარნატაკა”
- Mongolian: “Карнатака”
- Nepali: “कर्नाटक”
- Newari: “कर्नाटक”
- Northern Frisian: “Karnataka”
- Northern Luri: “کارناتاکا”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Karnataka”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Karnataka”
- Norwegian: “Karnataka”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Karnataka”
- Oriya: “କର୍ଣ୍ଣାଟକ”
- Ossetian: “Карнатакæ”
- Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928): “كرناتك”
- Pampanga: “Karnataka”
- Panjabi: “ਕਰਨਾਟਕ”
- Persian: “کارناتاکا”
- Persian: “کرناتک”
- Persian: “کرناتکه”
- Polish: “Karnataka”
- Portuguese: “Carnataca”
- Portuguese: “Karnataka”
- Pushto: “کرناټک”
- Romanian: “Karnataka”
- Russian: “Карнатака”
- Sanskrit: “कर्णाटकराज्यम्”
- Santali: “ᱠᱚᱨᱱᱟᱴᱚᱠ”
- Scots: “Karnataka”
- Serbian: “Карнатака”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Karnataka”
- Sindhi: “ڪرناٽڪا”
- Sinhala: “කමටකා”
- Slovak: “Karnátaka”
- Slovenian: “Karnataka”
- South Azerbaijani: “کارناتاکا”
- Spanish: “Karnataka”
- Swahili: “Karnataka”
- Swedish: “Karnataka”
- Sylheti: “ꠇꠘꠠ ꠞꠣꠁꠎ꠆ꠎꠅ”
- Sylheti: “ꠇꠞꠘꠣꠐꠇ ꠞꠣꠁꠎ꠆ꠎ”
- Tagalog: “Karnataka”
- Tajik: “Карнатака”
- Tajik: “Карнотако”
- Tamil: “கருநாடகம்”
- Tamil: “கர்நாடகா”
- Tatar: “Карнатака”
- Telugu: “కర్ణాటక”
- Telugu: “కర్నాటక”
- Thai: “รัฐกรณาฏกะ”
- Tibetan: “ཁར་ན་ཀྲ་ཁཱ།”
- Tulu: “ಕರ್ನಾಟಕ”
- Turkish: “Karnataka”
- Ukrainian: “Карнатака”
- Upper Sorbian: “Karnataka”
- Urdu: “کرناٹک”
- Uzbek: “Karnataka”
- Venetian: “Karnataka”
- Vietnamese: “Karnataka”
- Volapük: “Karnataka”
- Waray (Philippines): “Karnataka”
- Welsh: “Karnataka”
- Western Panjabi: “کرناٹک”
- Wu Chinese: “卡纳塔克邦”
- Yiddish: “קארנאטאקא”
- Yiddish: “קאַרנאַטאַקאַ”
- Yoruba: “Karnataka”
- Yue Chinese: “卡納塔克邦”
- “ma kipisi Kanataka”
- “ma lili Kanataka”
- “कर्नाटक”
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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 “Karnataka”. Photo: Pri2pais, CC BY-SA 3.0.