Roorkee

Roorkee is a small town in the northern state of . It is approximately 170 km from the capital of India, .
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  • Type: City with 274,000 residents
  • Description: city in Haridwar district, Uttarakhand, India
  • Also known as: “Rurki”, “रूडकी”, “রুর্কি”, “ரூர்கீ”, and “로르키”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Roorkee.

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Roorkee

Latitude
29.8694° or 29° 52′ 10″ north
Longitude
77.8902° or 77° 53′ 25″ east
Population
274,000
Elevation
268 metres (879 feet)
UN/LOCODE
IN ROO
Open location code
7JXVVV9R+P3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4373395280
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1258044
Wiki­data ID
Q1020718
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Roorkee” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “روركي”
  • Armenian: “Ռուրկի”
  • Asturian: “Roorkee”
  • Bengali: “রূড়কী”
  • Bhojpuri: “रुडकी”
  • Bishnupriya: “রোরকি”
  • Bulgarian: “Рорке”
  • Catalan: “Roorkee”
  • Cebuano: “Roorkee”
  • Chinese: “罗奥尔凯埃”
  • Chinese: “羅奧爾凱埃”
  • Danish: “Roorkee”
  • Dutch: “Roorkee”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “روركى”
  • Finnish: “Roorkee”
  • French: “Roorkee”
  • German: “Roorkee”
  • Greek: “Ρούρκι”
  • Gujarati: “રૂડકી”
  • Hebrew: “רורקי”
  • Hindi: “रुड़की”
  • Indonesian: “Roorkee”
  • Italian: “Roorkee”
  • Japanese: “ルールキー”
  • Kannada: “ರೂರ್ಕಿ”
  • Korean: “루르키”
  • Korean: “룩키”
  • Latvian: “Rurke”
  • Lithuanian: “Rurkė”
  • Malagasy: “Roorkee”
  • Malay: “Roorkee, Hardwar”
  • Malay: “Roorkee”
  • Marathi: “रूरकी”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Roorkee”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Roorkee”
  • Norwegian: “Roorkee”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Roorkee”
  • Oriya: “ଋଡ଼କୀ”
  • Pampanga: “Roorkee”
  • Panjabi: “ਰੁੜਕੀ”
  • Polish: “Roorkee”
  • Portuguese: “Roorkee”
  • Russian: “Рурки”
  • Sinhala: “රූර්කි”
  • Spanish: “Roorkee”
  • Swedish: “Roorkee”
  • Tamil: “ரூர்க்கி”
  • Telugu: “రూర్కీ”
  • Thai: “รูร์คี”
  • Turkish: “Roorkee”
  • Ukrainian: “Руркі”
  • Urdu: “روڑکی”
  • Vietnamese: “Roorkee”
  • “रुड़की”

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