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Pondicherry

Pondicherry, now officially named Puducherry, is a union territory in . It consists of a number of enclaves in three different states: All of these enclaves were under occupation before they were peacefully handed over to India.
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Pondicherry

Population
1,390,000
Wiki­data ID
Q66743
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yue Chinese—“Pondicherry” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Puducherry (territori i bashkimit)”
  • Albanian: “Puducherry”
  • Angika: “पाण्डिचेरी”
  • Arabic: “بُدُجيري”
  • Arabic: “بودوتشيري”
  • Armenian: “Պոնդիչերրի”
  • Assamese: “পুডুছেৰী”
  • Asturian: “Puducherry”
  • Awadhi: “पुदुचेरी कय जिले”
  • Balinese: “Puducherry”
  • Basque: “Puducherry”
  • Belarusian: “Пандышэры”
  • Bengali: “পুদুচেরি”
  • Bhojpuri: “पदुचेरी”
  • Bishnupriya: “পণ্ডিচেরী”
  • Breton: “Puducherry”
  • Bulgarian: “Пондичери”
  • Catalan: “Pondicherry”
  • Cebuano: “Puducherry”
  • Cebuano: “Union Territory of Puducherry”
  • Chechen: “Пудучерри”
  • Chinese: “Puducherry”
  • Chinese: “本地治里”
  • Croatian: “Pondicherry”
  • Croatian: “Puducherry”
  • Czech: “Puduččéri”
  • Czech: “Puducherry (Union Territory)”
  • Danish: “Pondicherry”
  • Danish: “Puducherry”
  • Dhivehi: “ޕޮންޑިޗެރީ”
  • Dutch: “Pondicherry”
  • Dutch: “Puducherry”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مقاطعة بونديشيرى”
  • Esperanto: “Pondiĉero”
  • Estonian: “Puducherry liiduterritoorium”
  • Finnish: “Puducherry”
  • French: “Pondichéry”
  • French: “Pondy”
  • French: “Puducherry”
  • French: “Puduvai”
  • French: “territoire de Pondichéry”
  • French: “Territoire de Pondichéry”
  • French: “territoire de Puducherry”
  • Georgian: “პონდიშერი”
  • German: “IN-PY”
  • German: “Pondicherry”
  • German: “Puducherry (Union Territory)”
  • German: “Puducherry”
  • Greek: “Ποντιτσερί”
  • Greek: “Πουντουτσέρι”
  • Gujarati: “પુડુચેરી”
  • Gujarati: “પુદુચેરી”
  • Gujarati: “પૉંડિચેરી”
  • Hausa: “Puducherry (yanki)”
  • Hausa: “Puducherry”
  • Hebrew: “פודוכרי”
  • Hebrew: “פודוצ’רי”
  • Hebrew: “פונדיצ’רי”
  • Hindi: “पुदुचेरी”
  • Hindi: “पुदुच्चेरी”
  • Hindi: “पोंडीचेरी”
  • Hungarian: “Pondichéry”
  • Hungarian: “Puduccseri”
  • Icelandic: “Puducherry”
  • Indonesian: “Puducherry”
  • Italian: “Pondicherry”
  • Italian: “Puducherry”
  • Japanese: “プデュシェリ”
  • Japanese: “ポンディシェリ連邦直轄領”
  • Kannada: “ಪುದುಚೆರಿ”
  • Kannada: “ಪುದುಚೇರಿ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Puducherry”
  • Kashmiri: “پڈوچیری”
  • Korean: “푸두체리”
  • Latin: “Pondicherium”
  • Latvian: “Pudučerri”
  • Lithuanian: “Pudučeris”
  • Macedonian: “Пондишери”
  • Maithili: “पुदुचेरी”
  • Maithili: “पुदुच्चेरी”
  • Malay: “Puducherry”
  • Malayalam: “പുതുച്ചേരി”
  • Marathi: “पुडुचेरी”
  • Marathi: “पुदुचेरी”
  • Mazanderani: “پودوچری”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Puducherry”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Puducherry”
  • Mingrelian: “პუდუჩერი”
  • Nepali: “पुदुचेरी”
  • Nepali: “पुदुच्चेरी”
  • Newari: “पुदुचेरी”
  • Newari: “पुदुच्चेरी”
  • Northern Frisian: “Puducherry (Teritoorium)”
  • Northern Frisian: “Puducherry”
  • Northern Luri: “پوٙدوٙچئری”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Puducherry”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Puducherry”
  • Norwegian: “Puducherry”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Pondicherry”
  • Oriya: “ପୁଡୁଚେରୀ”
  • Ossetian: “Пондичерри”
  • Pampanga: “Puducherry”
  • Panjabi: “ਪਾਂਡੀਚਰੀ”
  • Panjabi: “ਪੁਡੂਚੇਰੀ”
  • Persian: “پودوچری”
  • Polish: “Puducherry”
  • Portuguese: “Pondicheri”
  • Portuguese: “Puducherry”
  • Pushto: “پودوچېري”
  • Romanian: “Pondichéry”
  • Romanian: “Puducherry”
  • Russian: “Пондичерри”
  • Russian: “Пудуччери”
  • Sanskrit: “पुदुचेरी”
  • Sanskrit: “पुदुच्चेरी”
  • Sanskrit: “पोण्डिचेरी”
  • Santali: “ᱯᱚᱱᱰᱤᱪᱮᱨᱤ”
  • Santali: “ᱯᱩᱰᱩᱪᱮᱨᱤ”
  • Serbian: “Пондишери”
  • Serbian: “Пудушери”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pondicherry”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pudučeri”
  • Sinhala: “පුදුචේරි”
  • Slovak: “Puttučéri”
  • Slovenian: “IN-PY”
  • Slovenian: “Puducherry”
  • Somali: “Puducherry”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پودوچری”
  • Spanish: “Pondicherry”
  • Spanish: “Puducherry”
  • Swahili: “Puducherry”
  • Swedish: “Pondicherry”
  • Swedish: “Puducherry”
  • Tajik: “Пудучерӣ”
  • Tamil: “புதுச்சேரி”
  • Telugu: “పుదుచ్చేరి”
  • Thai: “ปุฑุเจรี”
  • Thai: “พอนดิเชอร์รี”
  • Thai: “พอนดี”
  • Turkish: “Puduçeri”
  • Turkmen: “Puducherry”
  • Ukrainian: “Пудучеррі”
  • Urdu: “پدوچیری”
  • Urdu: “پونڈیچری”
  • Uzbek: “Pondisheri”
  • Vietnamese: “Puducherry”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Puducherry”
  • Welsh: “Puducherry”
  • Western Panjabi: “پونڈیچری”
  • Wu Chinese: “本地治里”
  • Yoruba: “Puducherry”
  • Yue Chinese: “本地治里”
  • “पदुच्चेरी”

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