Mandu
Mandu or Mandav, literally meaning the "City of Joy", is a small town in the state of Madhya Pradesh in India, now best known for a fort built by Baaz Bahadur in the memory of his queen Rani Roopmati.- 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
- Categories: ancient city, archaeological site, and locality
- Location: Pithampur, Dhar, Malwa, Madhya Pradesh, Central India, India, South Asia, Asia
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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
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Western Panjabi—“Mandu” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “মাণ্ডু, মধ্যপ্রদেশ”
- 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: “మాండు, మధ్య ప్రదేశ్”
- Thai: “มาณฑู”
- Turkish: “Mandu, Madhya Pradeş”
- Urdu: “شادی آباد”
- Urdu: “مانڈو، مدھیہ پردیش”
- Western Panjabi: “مانڈو شادی آباد”
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