Rameswaram

Rameswaram is a town on Pamban Island, in state of . It's known for Ramanathaswamy Temple, a Hindu pilgrimage site with ornate corridors, huge sculpted pillars and sacred water tanks.
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  • Town with 44,900 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 10 metres (33 feet)
  • …is also known as “Ramesvaram”
  • Description: Town in Ramanathapuram District

Places of Interest

Highlights include Rameshwaram Ramanathaswamy Temple and Rameswaram railway station.

Hindu temple
Photo: Ssriram mt, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ramanathaswamy Temple is a dedicated…

Station
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Rameswaram railway terminus is an NSG–3 category…

Tower
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The is a free-standing tower that was built in 1995.

Rameswaram

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Latitude
9.2845° or 9° 17′ 4″ north
Longitude
79.3126° or 79° 18′ 45″ east
Open location code
6JXX78M7+Q2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 339884241
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1258698
Wiki­data ID
Q1435144

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Rameswaram” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Rameswaram”
  • Arabic: “رامسوارام”
  • Arabic: “راميشورم”
  • Assamese: “ৰামেশ্বৰম”
  • Asturian: “Rameswaram”
  • Bengali: “রামেশ্বরম”
  • Bhojpuri: “रामेश्वरम नगर”
  • Bishnupriya: “রামেশ্বরম”
  • Catalan: “Rameswaram”
  • Cebuano: “Rameswaram”
  • Chinese: “拉梅斯沃勒姆”
  • Chinese: “拉梅斯瓦拉姆”
  • Chinese: “拉美斯瓦兰”
  • Chinese: “拉美斯瓦蘭”
  • Danish: “Rameswaram”
  • Dutch: “Rameswaram”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “راميشورم”
  • Estonian: “Rameswaram”
  • Estonian: “Rāmeswaram”
  • Finnish: “Rameswaram”
  • French: “Rameshvaram”
  • French: “Rameshwaram”
  • French: “Rameswaram”
  • German: “Rameswaram”
  • Greek: “Ραμεσβάραμ”
  • Gujarati: “રામેશ્વરમ”
  • Hebrew: “ראמסוואראם”
  • Hebrew: “רמשווארם”
  • Hindi: “रामेश्वरम तीर्थ”
  • Hindi: “रामेश्वरम मंदिर”
  • Hindi: “रामेश्वरम शहर”
  • Hindi: “रामेश्वरम”
  • Hungarian: “Rámesvaram”
  • Italian: “Rameswaram”
  • Japanese: “ラーメーシュワラム”
  • Japanese: “ラーメシュワラム”
  • Kannada: “ರಾಮೇಚುವರಂ”
  • Kannada: “ರಾಮೇಶ್ವರಮ್”
  • Kashmiri: “رامیشورم”
  • Korean: “라메스와람”
  • Ladin: “Rameswaram”
  • Lithuanian: “Ramešvaramas”
  • Malagasy: “Rameswaram”
  • Malay: “Rameswaram, Ramanathapuram”
  • Malay: “Rameswaram”
  • Malayalam: “രാമേശ്വരം രാമനാഥസ്വാമി ക്ഷേത്രം”
  • Malayalam: “രാമേശ്വരം”
  • Manipuri: “ꯔꯥꯃꯦꯁ꯭ꯋꯔꯝ”
  • Marathi: “रामेश्वर”
  • Marathi: “रामेश्वरम”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Rameswaram”
  • Nepali: “रामेश्वरम तीर्थ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Rameshwaram”
  • Norwegian: “Rameshwaram”
  • Oriya: “Ramanathaswamy Temple”
  • Oriya: “ରାମେଶ୍ଵର”
  • Oriya: “ରାମେଶ୍ୱରମ”
  • Pampanga: “Rameswaram”
  • Panjabi: “ਰਾਮੇਸ਼ਵਰਮ”
  • Panjabi: “ਰਾਮੇਸ਼੍ਵਰਮ”
  • Persian: “رامشوارام”
  • Polish: “Rameswaram”
  • Portuguese: “Rameswaram”
  • Russian: “Рамешварам”
  • Sinhala: “රාමේෂ්වරම්”
  • Spanish: “Ramanatha Swami”
  • Spanish: “Rameswaram”
  • Swedish: “Rameswaram”
  • Tamil: “இராமேசுவரம்”
  • Tamil: “இராமேஸ்வரம் இராமநாதசுவாமி கோயில்”
  • Tamil: “இராமேஸ்வரம்”
  • Tamil: “ராமேஸ்வரம்”
  • Telugu: “రామేశ్వరం”
  • Telugu: “రామేశ్వరము”
  • Thai: “ราเมศวรัม”
  • Ukrainian: “Рамешварам”
  • Urdu: “رامیشورم”
  • Vietnamese: “Rameswaram”
  • Western Panjabi: “رامیشورم”

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