Chhattisgarh
Raipur district
Raipur

Raipur

Raipur is the largest city in . It had been the seat of government of the state until the formation of . There is not a great deal for visitors to see with most tourists visiting the surrounding region.
Tap on a place
to explore it
raipur.nic.in
Wikivoyage
Wikipedia
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • Type: City with 1,010,000 residents
  • Description: capital of Chhattisgarh, India
  • Also known as: “Raipoor” and “Ryepoor”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Raipur Junction railway station and Rājkumār College.

Railway station
Photo: DesiBoy101, CC BY 4.0.
Raipur Junction is the main railway station serving the city of Raipur. It is only few of the railway stations in India which has been given the grade 'A-1' by the Indian Railways and is one of the highest-revenue-earning railway stations in India.

School
Rajkumar College in Raipur, , is one of the oldest K-12 foundations of . It was founded by Sir Andrew Henderson Leith Fraser in the year 1882 at Jabalpur.

Raipur

Latitude
21.2381° or 21° 14′ 17″ north
Longitude
81.6337° or 81° 38′ 1″ east
Population
1,010,000
Elevation
296 metres (971 feet)
IATA airport code
RPR
United Nations Location Code
IN RPR
Open location code
7MH36JQM+6F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5308437250
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1258980
Wiki­data ID
Q372773
This page is based on OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikivoyage.
We’d love your help improving our open data sources. Thank you for contributing.

Satellite Map

Discover Raipur from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
© Stadia Maps, Airbus DS, CNES, PlanetObserver, and Copernicus

In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Raipur” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Raipur”
  • Arabic: “رائ بور”
  • Arabic: “راي بور”
  • Arabic: “رايبور”
  • Aragonese: “Raipur”
  • Armenian: “Ռայպուր”
  • Asturian: “Raipur”
  • Azerbaijani: “Raypur”
  • Basque: “Raipur”
  • Belarusian: “Райпур”
  • Bengali: “রায়পুর, ভারত”
  • Bengali: “রায়পুর”
  • Bhojpuri: “रायपुर”
  • Bishnupriya: “রাইপুর”
  • Catalan: “Raipur”
  • Cebuano: “Raipur”
  • Chechen: “Райпур”
  • Chinese: “Raipur”
  • Chinese: “賴布爾”
  • Chinese: “赖布尔”
  • Croatian: “Raipur”
  • Czech: “Rájpur”
  • Danish: “Raipur”
  • Dotyali: “रायपुर”
  • Dutch: “Raipur”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “رايبور”
  • Esperanto: “Rajpuro”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Raipur”
  • Finnish: “Raipur”
  • French: “Raipur”
  • Georgian: “რაიპური”
  • German: “Raipur”
  • Greek: “Ράιπουρ”
  • Gujarati: “રાયપુર”
  • Hebrew: “ראיפור”
  • Hebrew: “רייפור”
  • Hindi: “रायपुर, छत्तीसगढ़”
  • Hindi: “रायपुर”
  • Hungarian: “Rájpur”
  • Ido: “Raipur”
  • Indonesian: “Raipur”
  • Interlingue: “Raipur”
  • Irish: “Raipur”
  • Italian: “Raipur”
  • Japanese: “ラーイプル”
  • Japanese: “ライプル”
  • Kannada: “ರಾಯಪುರ”
  • Kannada: “ರಾಯ್ಪುರ್”
  • Kashmiri: “رایے پور”
  • Kashmiri: “رایے پوٗر”
  • Kashmiri: “راے پوٗر”
  • Kirghiz: “Райпур”
  • Korean: “라이푸르”
  • Ladin: “Raipur”
  • Latin: “Raipur”
  • Latin: “Rayapura”
  • Latvian: “Raipura”
  • Lithuanian: “Raipuras”
  • Maithili: “रायपुर”
  • Malagasy: “Raipur, Chhattisgarh”
  • Malay: “Raipur, Raipur”
  • Malay: “Raipur”
  • Malayalam: “Raipur”
  • Malayalam: “റായ് പൂർ”
  • Malayalam: “റായ്‌പൂർ”
  • Marathi: “रायपुर”
  • Marathi: “रायपूर”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Raipur”
  • Mingrelian: “რაიპური”
  • Nepali: “रायपुर”
  • Newari: “रायपुर”
  • Northern Frisian: “Raipur”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Raipur”
  • Norwegian: “Raipur”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Raipur”
  • Oriya: “ରାୟପୁର, ଛତିଶଗଡ଼”
  • Oriya: “ରାୟପୁର”
  • Ossetian: “Райпур”
  • Pampanga: “Raipur”
  • Panjabi: “ਰਾਇਪੁਰ”
  • Persian: “رای پور”
  • Persian: “رای‌پور”
  • Persian: “رایپور”
  • Polish: “Raipur”
  • Portuguese: “Raipur”
  • Pushto: “رای پور”
  • Romanian: “Raipur”
  • Russian: “Райпур”
  • Sanskrit: “रायपुर”
  • Sanskrit: “रायपुरम्”
  • Santali: “ᱨᱟᱭᱯᱩᱨ”
  • Scots: “Raipur”
  • Serbian: “Рајпур”
  • Sinhala: “රායිපුර්”
  • Slovenian: “Raipur”
  • South Azerbaijani: “رای‌پور”
  • Spanish: “Raipur”
  • Swedish: “Raipur”
  • Tagalog: “Raipur”
  • Tajik: “Райпур”
  • Talysh: “Raipur”
  • Tamil: “ராய்ப்பூர், சத்தீஸ்கர்”
  • Tamil: “ராய்ப்பூர்”
  • Tatar: “Райпур”
  • Telugu: “రాయ్‌పుర్”
  • Telugu: “రాయ్‌పూర్”
  • Thai: “รายปุระ”
  • Turkish: “Raipur”
  • Ukrainian: “Райпур”
  • Urdu: “رائے پور”
  • Uzbek: “Raypur”
  • Venetian: “Raipur”
  • Veps: “Raipur”
  • Vietnamese: “Raipur”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Raipur”
  • Western Panjabi: “راۓپور”
  • Wu Chinese: “赖布尔”
  • Yue Chinese: “賴布爾”
  • “रायपुर”

Places with the Same Name

Discover other places named “Raipur”.

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as shyam nagar and Green Orchid.

Chhattisgarh: Must-Visit Destinations

Delve into Bhilai, Bilaspur, Durg, and Ambikapur.

Explore These Curated Destinations

Discover places selected for their distinct character and enduring appeal.
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 Wikivoyage page “Raipur”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.