Lonar
Lonar is a small town in Buldhana district of Maharashtra close to Aurangabad. Its claim to fame is a lake in a crater that formed when a meteorite hit some 50,000 years ago.Places of Interest
Highlights: Lonar Wildlife Sanctuary.
Lonar
- Type: Town with 23,400 residents
- Description: human settlement
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Lonar, Buldhana, Vidarbha, Maharashtra, Western India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
19.9851° or 19° 59′ 6″ north
Longitude
76.5227° or 76° 31′ 22″ east
Population
23,400
Elevation
604 metres (1,982 feet)
Open location code
7JFRXGPF+23
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Vietnamese—“Lonar” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “লোনার”
- Bishnupriya: “লোনার”
- Cebuano: “Lonār”
- Chinese: “朗納爾”
- Chinese: “朗纳尔”
- Chinese: “洛纳尔”
- Dutch: “Lonar”
- French: “Lonar”
- German: “Lonar”
- Gujarati: “લોનાર”
- Irish: “Lonar”
- Italian: “Lonar”
- Japanese: “ロナール”
- Kannada: “ಲೋನಾರ್”
- Korean: “로나르”
- Malagasy: “Lonar”
- Malay: “Lonar”
- Marathi: “लोणार”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lonar”
- Newari: “लोनार”
- Oriya: “Lonar”
- Oriya: “ଲୋନାର୍”
- Persian: “لونار”
- Portuguese: “Lonar”
- Russian: “Лонар”
- Spanish: “Lonar”
- Swedish: “Lonār”
- Talysh: “Lonar”
- Tamil: “லோனார்”
- Telugu: “లోనార్”
- Urdu: “لونار”
- Vietnamese: “Lonar”
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