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Gujarat
Saurashtra

Rajkot

Rajkot is a city in the state of in Western . Rajkot rather appeals to spiritual tastes. As in , many ashrams, that offers the teachings of yoga and meditative retreat, are located in the city and its surroundings, amidst forested hills and beautiful lakes.
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  • Type: City with 1,290,000 residents
  • Description: city in Gujarat, India
  • Also known as: “Rajcote”, “Rajcote, India”, and “Rajkot, India”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Rajkot Airport and Watson Museum.

Aerodrome
Photo: Trinidade, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a public airport serving the city of Rajkot, , . It is operated by the Airports Authority of India. It was the 4th busiest airport in after Ahmedabad, and until all scheduled commercial operations were shifted to on 10 September 2023.

Museum
Photo: Snshetty, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The , considered to be one of the best among the seven such museums located across and managed by the Gujarat state Government, it has collections of precious objects from the princely State of Rajkot founded by the Jadeja Rajputs.

Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Mahatma Gandhi Museum was formerly Alfred High School in Rajkot was one of the oldest educational institutions in India which was active for 164 years where Mahatma Gandhi studied for a few years.

Rajkot

Latitude
22.2957° or 22° 17′ 45″ north
Longitude
70.7993° or 70° 47′ 58″ east
Population
1,290,000
Elevation
140 metres (459 feet)
IATA airport code
RAJ
United Nations Location Code
IN RAJ
Open location code
7JJG7QWX+7P
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1393852189
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1258847
Wiki­data ID
Q11854
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Rajkot” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Rajkot”
  • Arabic: “راجكوت”
  • Armenian: “Ռաջկոտ”
  • Asturian: “Rajkot”
  • Basque: “Rajkot”
  • Belarusian: “Раджкот”
  • Bengali: “রাজকোট”
  • Bhojpuri: “राजकोट”
  • Bishnupriya: “রাজকোট”
  • Catalan: “Rajkot”
  • Cebuano: “Rājkot (distrito)”
  • Cebuano: “Rājkot”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڕاجکۆت”
  • Chechen: “Раджкот”
  • Chinese: “Rajkot”
  • Chinese: “拉傑果德”
  • Chinese: “拉杰果德”
  • Czech: “Rádžkot”
  • Czech: “Rádžkót”
  • Czech: “Rajkot”
  • Danish: “Rajkot”
  • Dutch: “Rajkot”
  • Esperanto: “Raĝkot”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Rajkot”
  • Finnish: “Rajkot”
  • French: “Rajkot”
  • Georgian: “რაჯკოტი”
  • German: “Rajkot”
  • Greek: “Ραζκότ”
  • Greek: “Ράτζκοτ”
  • Gujarati: “રાજકોટ”
  • Hebrew: “ראג’קוט”
  • Hindi: “राजकोट”
  • Hungarian: “Rádzskot”
  • Indonesian: “Rajkot”
  • Irish: “Rajkot”
  • Italian: “Rajkot”
  • Japanese: “ラージコート”
  • Japanese: “ラージコット”
  • Kannada: “ರಾಜಕೋಟ”
  • Kannada: “ರಾಜಕೋಟ್”
  • Kashmiri: “راج کوٹ”
  • Kashmiri: “راجکوٹ”
  • Kirghiz: “Ражкот”
  • Korean: “라지코트”
  • Ladin: “Rajkot”
  • Latvian: “Rādžkota”
  • Lithuanian: “Radžkotas”
  • Maithili: “राजकोट”
  • Malagasy: “Rajkot”
  • Malay: “Rajkot”
  • Malayalam: “രാജ്‌കോട്”
  • Marathi: “राजकोट”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Rajkot”
  • Mingrelian: “რაჯკოტი”
  • Nepali: “राजकोट”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Rajkot”
  • Norwegian: “Rajkot”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Rajkot”
  • Oriya: “ରାଜକୋଟ”
  • Ossetian: “Раджкот”
  • Pampanga: “Rajkot”
  • Panjabi: “ਰਾਜਕੋਟ”
  • Persian: “راجکوت”
  • Polish: “Radźkot”
  • Polish: “Rajkot”
  • Portuguese: “Rajkot”
  • Pushto: “راج کوټ”
  • Romanian: “Rajkot”
  • Russian: “Раджкот”
  • Sanskrit: “राजकोट”
  • Santali: “ᱨᱟᱡᱽᱠᱚᱴ”
  • Scots: “Rajkot”
  • Serbian: “Раџкот”
  • Sinhala: “රාජ්කොට්”
  • Slovenian: “Radžkot”
  • Slovenian: “Rajkot”
  • South Azerbaijani: “راجکوت”
  • Spanish: “Rajkot”
  • Swahili: “Rajkot”
  • Swedish: “Rajkot”
  • Talysh: “Račkot”
  • Tamil: “ராஜ்கோட்”
  • Tatar: “Раҗкот”
  • Telugu: “రాజ్ కోట్”
  • Telugu: “రాజ్‌కోట్”
  • Thai: “ราชโกฏ”
  • Turkish: “Rajkot”
  • Ukrainian: “Раджкот”
  • Urdu: “راجکاوٹ”
  • Urdu: “راجکوٹ”
  • Venetian: “Rajkot”
  • Vietnamese: “Rajkot”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Rajkot”
  • Western Panjabi: “راجکوٹ”
  • Wu Chinese: “拉杰果德”
  • “राजकोट”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Rajkot”. Photo: Trinidade, CC BY-SA 4.0.