Pakistan
Balochistan
Quetta District

Quetta

Quetta is the capital of province in . If you are taking the overland route from Istanbul, Turkey to New Delhi, India without going through you will have to pass through Quetta.
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  • Type: City with 1,000,000 residents
  • Description: capital of Balochistan Province, Pakistan
  • Also known as: “Kotah”, “Kwatah”, “Kwettah”, “Shāl”, “Shālkot”, and “شالکوٹ”
Photo: Beluchistan, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ayub National Stadium and Quetta.

Stadium
, formerly known as the Baluchistan Cricket Association Ground, is a multi-purpose stadium in Quetta, . It is currently used mostly for hosting football matches.

Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Railway Station is the main railway station of , Balochistan, Pakistan. It serves as a major station on the Rohri-Chaman Railway Line and as the eastern terminus of the Quetta-Taftan Railway Line.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Quetta Cantonment.

Suburb
Photo: Mohsshahid, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a military cantonment area adjacent to the city of Quetta in the of .

Quetta

Latitude
30.2106° or 30° 12′ 38″ north
Longitude
67.0189° or 67° 1′ 8″ east
Population
1,000,000
Elevation
1,683 metres (5,522 feet)
IATA airport code
UET
United Nations Location Code
PK UET
Open location code
8J296269+6H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 81458885
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1167528
Wiki­data ID
Q185458
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Satellite Map

Discover Quetta from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Quetta” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Quetta”
  • Arabic: “كويتا”
  • Arabic: “كويتة”
  • Arabic: “كويته”
  • Armenian: “Կվետտա”
  • Awadhi: “क्वेटा”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kvetta”
  • Basque: “Quetta”
  • Belarusian: “Квета”
  • Bengali: “কোয়েটা”
  • Brahui: “Koŧá”
  • Bulgarian: “Куета”
  • Catalan: “Quetta”
  • Cebuano: “Quetta (kapital sa lalawigan)”
  • Cebuano: “Quetta”
  • Central Kurdish: “کوێتە”
  • Chinese: “奎塔”
  • Chinese: “奎达”
  • Chinese: “奎達”
  • Czech: “Kvéta”
  • Czech: “Quetta”
  • Danish: “Quetta”
  • Dutch: “Quetta”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كويته”
  • Esperanto: “Kveta”
  • Esperanto: “Kveto”
  • Finnish: “Quetta”
  • French: “Quetta”
  • Georgian: “კვეტა”
  • German: “Quetta”
  • Greek: “Κέτα”
  • Greek: “Κουέτα”
  • Gujarati: “ક્વેટા”
  • Hausa: “Quetta”
  • Hebrew: “כוויתה”
  • Hebrew: “כוותה”
  • Hindi: “क्वेटा”
  • Hindi: “क्वेट्टा”
  • Hungarian: “Kvetta”
  • Ido: “Quetta”
  • Indonesian: “Quetta”
  • Irish: “Quetta”
  • Italian: “Quetta”
  • Japanese: “クエッタ”
  • Kalaallisut: “Quetta”
  • Kannada: “ಕ್ವೆಟ್ಟ”
  • Kashmiri: “کۄیِٹہ”
  • Korean: “퀘타”
  • Latvian: “Koeta”
  • Latvian: “Kueta”
  • Latvian: “Kveta”
  • Latvian: “Kvēta”
  • Lithuanian: “Kveta”
  • Lithuanian: “Kveto”
  • Low German: “Quetta”
  • Magahi: “कोयटा”
  • Magahi: “क्वेटा”
  • Maithili: “क्वेटा”
  • Malay: “Quetta”
  • Malayalam: “ക്വെറ്റ”
  • Maori: “Quetta”
  • Marathi: “क्वेटा”
  • Marathi: “क्वेट्टा”
  • Mazanderani: “کويته”
  • Mazanderani: “کویته”
  • Mesopotamian Arabic: “كويته”
  • Mingrelian: “კვეტა”
  • Nepali: “केट्टा”
  • Nepali: “क्वेटा”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Quetta”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Quetta”
  • Norwegian: “Quetta”
  • Ossetian: “Кветтæ”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੋਇਟਾ”
  • Persian: “کویته”
  • Polish: “Kweta”
  • Portuguese: “Queta”
  • Portuguese: “Quetta”
  • Pushto: “کوټه”
  • Russian: “Кветта”
  • Santali: “ᱠᱣᱮᱴᱟ”
  • Scots: “Quetta”
  • Serbian: “Квета”
  • Sindhi: “ڪوئيٽا”
  • Sinhala: “ක්වෙටා”
  • Sinhala: “ක්වේටා‍”
  • Slovak: “Kvéta”
  • Slovenian: “Quetta”
  • Spanish: “Queta”
  • Spanish: “Qüeta”
  • Spanish: “Quetta”
  • Spanish: “Qüetta”
  • Swedish: “Quetta”
  • Tajik: “Кувета”
  • Tamil: “குவெட்டா”
  • Tatar: “Квиттә”
  • Telugu: “క్వెట్టా”
  • Thai: “Quetta”
  • Thai: “เควตตา”
  • Turkish: “Ketta”
  • Turkish: “Kuetta”
  • Turkish: “Quetta”
  • Ukrainian: “Кветта”
  • Urdu: “کوئٹا”
  • Urdu: “کوئٹه”
  • Urdu: “کوئٹہ”
  • Uzbek: “Kvetta”
  • Vietnamese: “Quetta”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Quetta”
  • Welsh: “Quetta”
  • Western Panjabi: “کوئٹا”
  • Western Panjabi: “کوئٹہ”
  • Wu Chinese: “奎达”

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