Western Madhya Pradesh
Dhar
Pithampur

Mandu

Mandu or Mandav literally meaning the City of Joy is a small town in the state of in , now best known for a fort built by Baaz Bahadur in the memory of his queen Rani Roopmati.
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  • Type: Town with 10,700 residents
  • Description: uninhabited ancient city in the present-day Mandav area of the Dhar district, Madhya Pradesh, India
  • Also known as: “Mandav” and “Mandu, Madhya Pradesh”

Mandu

Latitude
22.3473° or 22° 20′ 50″ north
Longitude
75.3973° or 75° 23′ 50″ east
Population
10,700
Elevation
576 metres (1,890 feet)
Open location code
7JJQ89WW+WW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3029443257
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1263833
Wiki­data ID
Q147886
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In Other Languages

From Bengali to Western Panjabi—“Mandu” goes by many names.
  • Bengali: “মান্ডু”
  • Catalan: “Mandu”
  • Cebuano: “Māndu”
  • Dutch: “Mandu, Madhya Pradesh”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ماندو”
  • French: “Mandu”
  • French: “Mândû”
  • German: “Mandu”
  • Hindi: “मांडु”
  • Hindi: “मांडू”
  • Hindi: “माण्डव”
  • Hindi: “माण्डू, मध्यप्रदेश”
  • Hindi: “माण्डू”
  • Hungarian: “Mándú”
  • Italian: “Mandu”
  • Japanese: “マーンドゥー”
  • Kannada: “ಮಾಂಡು”
  • Malayalam: “മാണ്ഡു, മദ്ധ്യപ്രദേശ്”
  • Marathi: “मांडू (मध्य प्रदेश)”
  • Marathi: “मांडू”
  • Russian: “Манду”
  • Sanskrit: “मण्डु”
  • Sanskrit: “माण्डु”
  • Swedish: “Māndu”
  • Tamil: “மாண்டு, மத்தியப் பிரதேசம்”
  • Tamil: “மாண்டு”
  • Telugu: “మాందు”
  • Thai: “มาณฑู”
  • Turkish: “Mandu, Madhya Pradeş”
  • Urdu: “شادی آباد”
  • Urdu: “مانڈو، مدھیہ پردیش”
  • Western Panjabi: “مانڈو شادی آباد”

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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 “Mandu”. Photo: Rangan Datta Wiki, CC BY-SA 4.0.