Jammu & Kashmir
Poonch District
Haveli

Poonch

Poonch, is a town and the administrative headquarters of the , of the Indian-administered union territory of , which is part of the larger disputed territory of .
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  • Type: Town with 22,500 residents
  • Description: town in Poonch district, Jammu and Kashmir, India
  • Also known as: “Prunts” and “Punch”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Poonch Airport.

Aerodrome
is an airport located in the of , India. Though no scheduled flights operate from Poonch, in 2005, then Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Ghulam Nabi Azad made a suggestion to Air Deccan that they start flying small aircraft to Poonch.

Poonch

Latitude
33.767° or 33° 46′ 1″ north
Longitude
74.0957° or 74° 5′ 45″ east
Population
22,500
Elevation
999 metres (3,278 feet)
Open location code
8J5PQ38W+Q7
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5330058222
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1167718
Wiki­data ID
Q2575156
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Poonch” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بونتش”
  • Arabic: “بونش”
  • Asturian: “Poonch”
  • Bengali: “পঞ্চ”
  • Bishnupriya: “পুঞ্চ”
  • Catalan: “Punch”
  • Cebuano: “Pūnch”
  • Chinese: “Poonch”
  • Chinese: “普恩楚”
  • Chinese: “本傑”
  • Chinese: “本杰”
  • Chinese: “潘慈”
  • Dutch: “Poonch”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بونش”
  • French: “Poonch”
  • Galician: “Poonch”
  • German: “Punch”
  • Greek: “Πουντς”
  • Gujarati: “પૂંચ”
  • Hindi: “पुंछ”
  • Italian: “Poonch”
  • Japanese: “プ―ンチ”
  • Kannada: “ಪೂಂಚ್”
  • Kashmiri: “پُنٛژھ”
  • Kashmiri: “پونچھ، بھارت”
  • Korean: “포온치”
  • Korean: “푼치”
  • Malagasy: “Poonch”
  • Malay: “Punch, India”
  • Malay: “Punch”
  • Marathi: “पूंच”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Poonch”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Poonch”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Poonch”
  • Panjabi: “ਪੁੰਛ”
  • Persian: “پونچ”
  • Portuguese: “Poonch”
  • Russian: “Пунч”
  • Sanskrit: “पूञ्छ”
  • Santali: “ᱯᱩᱧᱪ”
  • Spanish: “Punch”
  • Swedish: “Poonch”
  • Swedish: “Pūnch”
  • Tamil: “பூஞ்ச்”
  • Tamil: “பூன்ச்”
  • Telugu: “పూంచ్”
  • Urdu: “پونچھ، بھارت”
  • Urdu: “پونچھ”
  • Western Panjabi: “پنچھ”
  • Western Panjabi: “پُنچھ”
  • Western Panjabi: “پونچھ”

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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 Wikipedia page “Poonch”. Photo: Ajazkh, CC BY-SA 4.0.