Porbandar

Porbandar is a city in the region of , . It is the historical birthplace of Mahatma Gandhi, and the mythical birthplace of Sudama, the childhood friend of the Hindu god Krishna.
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  • Type: City with 152,000 residents
  • Description: city in Gujarat
  • Also known as: “Poorbunder”, “Port Porbandar”, and “Purbandar”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kirti Mandir and Porbandar railway station.

Museum
Photo: Jaydip3212, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a small museum at the birthplace of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in the city of Porbandar, , India, memorializing him and his wife, Kasturba Gandhi.

Railway station
is a railway station in city of Porbandar in the Indian state of . It belongs to the Bhavnagar Division of Western Railways.

Pond
is a bird sanctuary in the Porbandar District of state, , which was dedicated in 1988. It is the only bird sanctuary in Gujarat that provides legal protection to the birds which nest there.

Porbandar

Latitude
21.6409° or 21° 38′ 27″ north
Longitude
69.611° or 69° 36′ 40″ east
Population
152,000
Elevation
7 metres (23 feet)
IATA airport code
PBD
United Nations Location Code
IN PBD
Open location code
7JHFJJR6+99
Open­Street­Map ID
node 245696813
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1259395
Wiki­data ID
Q6419912
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Porbandar” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بوربندر”
  • Asturian: “Porbandar”
  • Azerbaijani: “Porbandar”
  • Basque: “Porbandar”
  • Belarusian: “Парбандар”
  • Bengali: “পোরবন্দর”
  • Bhojpuri: “पोरबंदर”
  • Bishnupriya: “পোরবন্দর”
  • Bulgarian: “Порбандар”
  • Catalan: “Porbandar”
  • Chinese: “Porbandar”
  • Chinese: “博尔本德尔”
  • Chinese: “坡尔班达尔”
  • Chinese: “坡爾班達爾”
  • Czech: “Pórbandar”
  • Danish: “Porbandar”
  • Dutch: “Porbandar”
  • Esperanto: “Porbandar”
  • Finnish: “Porbandar”
  • French: “Porbandar”
  • Galician: “Porbandar”
  • German: “Porbandar”
  • Greek: “Πορμπαντάρ”
  • Gujarati: “પોરબંદર”
  • Hebrew: “פורבאנדר”
  • Hebrew: “פורבנדר”
  • Hindi: “पोरबन्दर”
  • Hungarian: “Porbandar”
  • Indonesian: “Porbandar”
  • Irish: “Porbandar”
  • Italian: “Porbandar”
  • Japanese: “ポールバンダル”
  • Japanese: “ポルバンダル”
  • Kannada: “ಪೋರಬಂದರ್”
  • Kannada: “ಪೋರ್ಬಂದರ್”
  • Kashmiri: “پورباندار”
  • Korean: “포르반다르”
  • Latvian: “Porbandara”
  • Lithuanian: “Porbandaras”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Porbandar”
  • Malagasy: “Porbandar”
  • Malay: “Porbandar”
  • Malayalam: “പോർബന്തർ”
  • Marathi: “पोरबंदर”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Porbandar”
  • Mingrelian: “პორბანდარი”
  • Nepali: “पोरबन्दर”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Porbandar”
  • Norwegian: “Porbandar”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Porbandar”
  • Oriya: “ପୋରବନ୍ଦର”
  • Ossetian: “Порбандар”
  • Pampanga: “Porbandar”
  • Panjabi: “ਪੋਰਬੰਦਰ”
  • Persian: “بندر پور”
  • Polish: “Porbandar”
  • Portuguese: “Porbandar”
  • Russian: “Порбандар”
  • Russian: “Порбандаром”
  • Sanskrit: “पोरबन्दर”
  • Sanskrit: “पोरबन्दर्”
  • Santali: “ᱯᱳᱨᱵᱚᱱᱫᱚᱨ”
  • Sindhi: “پور بندر”
  • Sinhala: “පොර්බන්දර්”
  • Slovak: “Porbandar”
  • Slovak: “Pórbandar”
  • Slovenian: “Porbandar”
  • Spanish: “Porbandar”
  • Swahili: “Porbandar”
  • Swedish: “Porbandar”
  • Tamil: “போர்பந்தர்”
  • Telugu: “పోర్‌బందర్”
  • Thai: “โปพันทระ”
  • Turkish: “Porbandar”
  • Ukrainian: “Порбандар”
  • Urdu: “پور بندر”
  • Urdu: “پوربندر”
  • Vietnamese: “Porbandar”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Porbandar”
  • Western Panjabi: “پوربندر”
  • “पोरबंदर”

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