Machhiwara
Machhiwara is a city in the Indian state of Punjab. A small town that grew to importance when Sikh Guru Gobind Singh Ji visited this place and slept in the jungles of Machhiwara while fighting the Mughal forces in December 1705.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Machhiwara
- Type: Town with 24,900 residents
- Description: small town in Punjab, India
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Samrala, Ludhiana district, Malwa, Punjab, Plains, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
30.9155° or 30° 54′ 56″ northLongitude
76.1993° or 76° 11′ 57″ eastPopulation
24,900Elevation
261 metres (856 feet)United Nations Location Code
IN MCCOpen location code
8J2RW58X+5POpenStreetMap ID
node 1836755173OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Western Panjabi—“Machhiwara” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “মাছিওয়ারা”
- Bishnupriya: “মাছিৱারা”
- Cebuano: “Māchhīwāra”
- Chinese: “Machhiwara”
- Chinese: “馬奇瓦拉”
- Chinese: “马奇瓦拉”
- Dutch: “Machhiwara”
- French: “Machhiwara”
- German: “Machhiwara”
- Hebrew: “מצ’יברה”
- Hindi: “माछीवाड़ा”
- Irish: “Machhiwara”
- Italian: “Machhiwara”
- Japanese: “マーチヒワーラー”
- Kashmiri: “ماچھیوارا”
- Malay: “Machhiwara”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Machhiwara”
- Newari: “माछीवारा”
- Panjabi: “ਮਾਛੀਵਾੜਾ”
- Portuguese: “Machhiwara”
- Spanish: “Machhiwara”
- Swedish: “Māchhīwāra”
- Tamil: “மாச்சீவாடா”
- Urdu: “ماچھیوارا”
- Vietnamese: “Machhiwara”
- Western Panjabi: “ماچھی واڑا”
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