Hyderabad
Hyderabad, also known as the Pearl City, is the capital of Telangana in Southern India. Secunderabad, 8 km away, is its twin city. Though at one point the twins were two different cities, relentless urbanisation has meant that they are now conjoined into one metropolis, called Greater Hyderabad.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Central Hyderabad and North Hyderabad.
Central Hyderabad
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Central Hyderabad is the modern city centre of Hyderabad, lying between the Musi River and Hussain Sagar Lake. This article covers the entire Central Zone of Hyderabad.
North Hyderabad
West Hyderabad
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West Hyderabad, also known as Cyberabad or HITEC City, covers the areas of Gachibowli, Serilingampally, Patancheruvu, Moosapet and Kukatpally. This is one of the newer areas of Hyderabad, having developed along with the IT Industry in the late 1990s.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Old City and East Hyderabad.
Old City
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The Old City of Hyderabad is the historic centre of the city. Established by Mohammad Quli Qutb Shah in 1591, successive rulers of the Qutb Shahi dynasty and subsequently the Nizams ruled their domains from here.
East Hyderabad
East Hyderabad consists of the eastern suburbs of Hyderabad. According to the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, it consists of Kapra, Uppal, Hayatnagar, L.B.Nagar and Saroornagar circles.South Hyderabad
South Hyderabad is a district of Hyderabad, India. It, and the Old City, combine to form the South Zone of Hyderabad.Photo: McKay Savage, CC BY 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Salar Jung Museum and Charminar.
Salar Jung Museum
Museum
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The Salar Jung Museum is an art museum located at Dar-ul-Shifa, on the southern bank of the Musi River in the city of Hyderabad, Telangana, India. It is one of the notable National Museums of India.
Charminar
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The Charminar is a monument located in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Constructed in 1591, the landmark is a symbol of Hyderabad and officially incorporated in the emblem of Telangana.
Kacheguda railway station
Railway station
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Kacheguda railway station is a non-suburban-2 category Indian railway station in Hyderabad railway division of South Central Railway zone. It is one of the four major railway stations in Hyderabad of the Indian state of Telangana.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Saidabad mandal and Gaddiannaram.
Saidabad mandal
Suburb
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Saidabad is a mandal in Hyderabad District in Telangana, India.
Gaddiannaram
Suburb
Gaddiannaram is a suburb in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. It is located close to the major commercial center, Dilsukhnagar.
Saroornagar
Suburb
Saroornagar is a neighbourhood in Hyderabad. It is located in the Rangareddy district of Indian state of Telangana. It is located in Saroornagar mandal of Kandukur revenue division.
Hyderabad
- Type: City with 6,810,000 residents
- Description: capital of Telangana, India
- Also known as: “City of Pearls”, “Haidrābād”, “Hyderabad AP”, and “Hyderabad, India”
- Historically known as: “Bhaganagar”
- Categories: megacity, largest city, provincial capital, State capitals of India, and locality
- Location: Telangana, Southern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
17.3814° or 17° 22′ 53″ northLongitude
78.4994° or 78° 29′ 58″ eastPopulation
6,810,000Elevation
515 metres (1,690 feet)IATA airport code
HYDUnited Nations Location Code
IN HYDOpen location code
7J9W9FJX+GPOpenStreetMap ID
node 245640543OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1269843Wikidata ID
Q1361
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Hyderabad” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Hyderabad, Indië”
- Albanian: “Hajderabad”
- Albanian: “Hajderabadi”
- Albanian: “Hiderabad”
- Amharic: “ሃይደረባድ”
- Arabic: “حيدر آباد”
- Arabic: “حیدر آباد”
- Aragonese: “Hyderabad”
- Armenian: “Հայդարաբադ”
- Assamese: “হাইদৰাবাদ”
- Assamese: “হায়দৰাবাদ”
- Asturian: “Hyderabad”
- Azerbaijani: “Heydərabad”
- Balinese: “Hyderabad”
- Bashkir: “Хәйҙәрабад”
- Basque: “Hyderabad”
- Belarusian: “Гайдэрабад”
- Belarusian: “Хайдарабад”
- Belarusian: “Хайдэрабад”
- Bengali: “হায়দ্রাবাদ”
- Bhojpuri: “हैदराबाद”
- Bishnupriya: “হায়দরাবাদ এম. কর্পোরেশন”
- Bosnian: “Haidrābād”
- Breton: “Hyderabad”
- Bulgarian: “Хайдарабад”
- Burmese: “ဟိုက်ဒရာဘတ်မြို့”
- Catalan: “Hyderabad”
- Cebuano: “Haidrābād”
- Cebuano: “Hyderabad”
- Chechen: “Хайдарабад (Инди)”
- Chechen: “Хьайдарабад”
- Chinese: “Haiderabad”
- Chinese: “海得拉巴”
- Chinese: “海德拉巴”
- Cornish: “Hyderabad”
- Croatian: “Hyderabad”
- Czech: “Haidarábád”
- Czech: “Hajdarábád”
- Danish: “Hyderabad”
- Dotyali: “हैदराबाद”
- Dutch: “Haiderabad”
- Eastern Mari: “Хайдарабад (Индий)”
- Eastern Mari: “Хайдарабад”
- Egyptian Arabic: “حيدر اباد”
- Esperanto: “Hajderabado”
- Esperanto: “Hedrabado”
- Estonian: “Hyderabad”
- Estonian: “Hyderābād”
- Fiji Hindi: “Hyderabad”
- Finnish: “Hyderabad”
- French: “Hyderabad”
- Galician: “Hyderabad”
- Georgian: “ჰაიდარაბადი”
- German: “Hyderabad”
- Gilaki: “حیدر آباد”
- Greek: “Χαϊντεραμπάντ”
- Gujarati: “હૈદરાબાદ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Hói-tet-là-pâ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Hyderabad”
- Hausa: “Hyderabad”
- Hebrew: “היידראבאד”
- Hindi: “मुत्याल नगर”
- Hindi: “हैदराबाद”
- Hindi: “हैदराबाद्”
- Hungarian: “Haidarábád”
- Hungarian: “Hyderabad”
- Icelandic: “Hyderabad”
- Indonesian: “Hyderabad”
- Interlingue: “Hyderabad”
- Irish: “Hyderabad”
- Italian: “Haidrābād”
- Italian: “Hyderabad”
- Japanese: “ハイデラバード”
- Kalaallisut: “Hyderabad”
- Kannada: “ಹೈದರಾಬಾದ್, ಆಂಧ್ರ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
- Kannada: “ಹೈದರಾಬಾದ್, ತೆಲಂಗಾಣ”
- Kannada: “ಹೈದರಾಬಾದ್”
- Kannada: “ಹೈದರಾಬಾದ್”
- Kara-Kalpak: “Haydarabad”
- Kashmiri: “حیدر آباد”
- Kashmiri: “حَیدَر آباد”
- Kashmiri: “حیدرآباد”
- Kazakh: “Хайдарабад”
- Kirghiz: “Хайдарабад”
- Komering: “Hyderabad”
- Korean: “하이데라바드”
- Ladin: “Hyderabad”
- Latin: “Haidrābād”
- Latin: “Hyderabadum”
- Latvian: “Haidarābādu”
- Lithuanian: “Haidarabadas”
- Macedonian: “Хајдерабад”
- Maithili: “हैदराबाद”
- Malagasy: “Hyderabad, India”
- Malay: “Hyderabad, India”
- Malay: “Hyderabad”
- Malayalam: “ഹൈദരാബാദ്”
- Maori: “Hyderabad”
- Marathi: “हैदराबाद”
- Marathi: “हैद्राबाद”
- Mazanderani: “حيدرآباد”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hyderabad”
- Mingrelian: “ჰაიდარაბადი”
- Moksha: “Гайдарабад (Индия)”
- Moksha: “Гайдарабад”
- Mongolian: “Хайдерабад”
- Nepali: “हैदराबाद”
- Newari: “हैदराबाद”
- Northern Frisian: “Hyderabad”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hyderabad”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hyderabad”
- Norwegian: “Hyderabad”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Haidarabad”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Hyderabad”
- Oriya: “ହାଇଦ୍ରାବାଦ”
- Ossetian: “Хайдарабад (сахар, Инди)”
- Ossetian: “Хайдарабад”
- Pampanga: “Hyderabad, India”
- Panjabi: “ਹੈਦਰਾਬਾਦ”
- Persian: “حیدرآباد”
- Polish: “Hajdarabad”
- Polish: “Hyderabad”
- Portuguese: “Haiderabade”
- Portuguese: “Hyderabad”
- Pushto: “حيدراباد، هند”
- Romanian: “Hyderabad, India”
- Romanian: “Hyderabad”
- Russia Buriat: “Хайдарабад”
- Russian: “Хайдарабад”
- Russian: “Хайдерабад”
- Russian: “Хайдрабад”
- Sanskrit: “भाग्यनगरम्”
- Sanskrit: “हैदराबाद् मण्डलम्”
- Santali: “ᱢᱚᱛᱤ ᱥᱚᱦᱚᱨ”
- Santali: “ᱦᱟᱭᱫᱨᱟᱵᱟᱫᱽ, ᱥᱤᱧᱚᱛ”
- Santali: “ᱦᱟᱭᱫᱨᱟᱵᱟᱫᱽ”
- Santali: “ᱵᱷᱟᱜᱽᱭᱚᱱᱚᱜᱚᱨ”
- Scots: “Hyderabad”
- Serbian: “Hajderabad”
- Serbian: “Хајдерабад”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hajderabad”
- Silesian: “Hajdarabad (Indyje)”
- Silesian: “Hajdarabad”
- Sindhi: “حيدرآباد ھند”
- Sindhi: “حيدرآباد، انڊيا”
- Sindhi: “حيدرآباد، ڀارت”
- Sindhi: “حيدرآباد”
- Sindhi: “موتين جو شهر”
- Sinhala: “හයිද්රාබාද්”
- Slovak: “Hajdarábad”
- Slovenian: “Haidarābād”
- Slovenian: “Hajderabad”
- Slovenian: “Hiderabad”
- South Azerbaijani: “حئیدرآباد”
- South Azerbaijani: “حیدرآباد”
- Spanish: “Edrabad”
- Spanish: “Haidrābād”
- Spanish: “Hyderabad”
- Swahili: “Hyderabad”
- Swedish: “Hyderabad”
- Tagalog: “Haidrābād”
- Tagalog: “Hyderabad, India”
- Tajik: “Ҳайдаробод”
- Talysh: “Xajdarabad”
- Tamil: “ஐதராபாத்து”
- Tamil: “ஹைதராபாத்”
- Tamil: “ஹைதெராபாத்”
- Tatar: “Хәйдәрабад”
- Telugu: “భాగ్యనగరం”
- Telugu: “ముత్యాల నగరం”
- Telugu: “హైదరాబాదు”
- Telugu: “హైదరాబాద్”
- Thai: “ไฮเดอราบาด”
- Tulu: “ಹೈದರಾಬಾದ್, ಭಾರತ”
- Turkish: “Haydarabad, Hindistan”
- Turkish: “Haydarabad”
- Turkmen: “Haýdarabat”
- Twi: “Hyderabad”
- Uighur: “ھەيدەرئاباد”
- Ukrainian: “Гайдарабад”
- Ukrainian: “Гайдерабад”
- Urdu: “حیدر آباد دکن”
- Urdu: “حیدر آباد”
- Urdu: “حیدرآباد، دکن”
- Urdu: “حیدرآباد”
- Uzbek: “Haydarobod”
- Venetian: “Hyderabad”
- Veps: “Haidarabad”
- Vietnamese: “Hyderabad, Ấn Độ”
- Vietnamese: “Hyderabad”
- Volapük: “Haidarabad”
- Waray (Philippines): “Hyderabad, India”
- Waray (Philippines): “Hyderabad”
- Welsh: “Hyderabad”
- Western Panjabi: “حیدرآباد دکن”
- Western Panjabi: “حیدرآباد، بھارت”
- Western Panjabi: “حیدرآباد”
- Wu Chinese: “海得拉巴 (印度)”
- Wu Chinese: “海得拉巴(印度)”
- Yiddish: “היידעראַבאַד”
- Yue Chinese: “海得拉巴”
- “हैदराबाद”
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