Mathura
Mathura is a Hindu holy city at the banks of the Yamuna River, in the Braj region of Uttar Pradesh, India. It is a famous pilgrimage city as Krishna was believed to born here as an avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu.
- Type: City with 100,000 residents
- Description: City in Uttar Pradesh, India
- Also known as: “Kerajaan Mandura”, “Kerajaan Mathura”, “Krishnajanmabhumi”, “Mathra”, “Mathurá”, “Mathurâ”, “Methora”, “Multura”, “Muttra”, “Mutura”, “Кришна-джанма-бхуми”, “Кришна-джанмабхуми”, “Матхур”, “మథుర జిల్లా”, “マトゥーラ”, “マトゥラ”, “摩吐罗城”, and “马土腊”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Kesava Deo Temple and Dwarkadhish Temple, Mathura.
Kesava Deo Temple
Hindu temple
Dwarkadhish Temple, Mathura
Hindu temple
Shri Dwarkadhish Temple is a Hindu temple in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Vishram Ghat
Vishram Ghat is a ghat, a bath and worship place, on the banks of river Yamuna in Mathura, India.Mathura
- Categories: town in India, human settlement, and locality
- Location: Mathura, Mathura district, Braj, Uttar Pradesh, Plains, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
27.4956° or 27° 29′ 44″ north
Longitude
77.6856° or 77° 41′ 8″ east
Population
100,000
Elevation
181 metres (594 feet)
UN/LOCODE
IN MAT
Open location code
7JVVFMWP+66
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Mathura” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Mathura”
- Arabic: “ماثورا”
- Armenian: “Մաթհուրա”
- Assamese: “মথুৰা”
- Asturian: “Mathura”
- Basque: “Mathura”
- Belarusian: “Матхура”
- Bengali: “মথুরা”
- Bhojpuri: “मथुरा”
- Bishnupriya: “মথুরা”
- Bulgarian: “Матхура”
- Catalan: “Mathura”
- Cebuano: “Mathura”
- Chinese: “馬圖拉”
- Chinese: “马图拉”
- Crimean Tatar: “Mathura”
- Croatian: “Mathura”
- Czech: “Mathura”
- Danish: “Mathura”
- Dutch: “Mathura”
- Esperanto: “Mathura”
- Esperanto: “Mathurā”
- Estonian: “Mathura”
- Fiji Hindi: “Madhura”
- Finnish: “Mathura”
- French: “Mathura”
- German: “Mathura”
- Greek: “Ματουρά”
- Gujarati: “મથુરા”
- Hebrew: “מטורה”
- Hebrew: “מתורה”
- Hindi: “मथुरा”
- Hungarian: “Mathura”
- Indonesian: “Mathura”
- Irish: “Mathura”
- Italian: “Mathura”
- Japanese: “マトゥラー”
- Javanese: “Mandura”
- Kannada: “ಮಥುರಾ”
- Kannada: “ಮಥುರೆ”
- Kazakh: “Матхура”
- Korean: “마투라”
- Latvian: “Mathura”
- Lithuanian: “Mathura”
- Lithuanian: “Matura”
- Magahi: “मथुरा”
- Maithili: “मथुरा”
- Malay: “Mathura, Mathura”
- Malayalam: “മഥുര”
- Marathi: “मथुरा”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Mathura”
- Nepali: “मथुरा”
- Newari: “मथुरा”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mathura”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mathura”
- Norwegian: “Mathura”
- Oriya: “ମଥୁରା”
- Pampanga: “Mathura”
- Panjabi: “ਮਥੁਰਾ”
- Persian: “ماتورا”
- Polish: “Mathura”
- Portuguese: “Mathura”
- Portuguese: “Matura”
- Russian: “Матхура”
- Sanskrit: “मथुरा”
- Santali: “ᱢᱚᱛᱷᱩᱨᱟ”
- Scots: “Mathura”
- Serbian: “Matura”
- Serbian: “Матура”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Mathura”
- Sindhi: “مٿورا”
- Sinhala: “මථුරා”
- Slovenian: “Mathura”
- Spanish: “Mathura”
- Swedish: “Mathura”
- Tagalog: “Mathura”
- Tamil: “மதுரா, உத்தரப் பிரதேசம்”
- Tamil: “மதுரா”
- Tatar: “Матхура”
- Telugu: “మథుర”
- Thai: “มถุรา”
- Thai: “มธุระ”
- Turkish: “Mathura”
- Ukrainian: “Матхура”
- Urdu: “متھرا”
- Venetian: “Mathura”
- Vietnamese: “Mathura”
- Waray (Philippines): “Mathura, Uttar Pradesh”
- Waray (Philippines): “Mathura”
- Western Panjabi: “متھرا”
- Wu Chinese: “马图拉”
- “मथुरा”
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