Sanchi

Sanchi is a village in central in , about 9 km southwest of and 46 km from . It is the site of a great Buddhist stupas listed on UNESCO World Heritage List.
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  • Type: Village
  • Description: Buddhist complex, famous for its Great Stupa, in Madhya Pradesh, India
  • Also known as: “Buddhist monuments at Sanchi”, “Buddistmonumenten i Sanchi”, “Estupa de Sanchi”, “Gran Estupa de Sanchi”, “Great Sanchi Stupa”, “Kiến-chí”, “Mahástúpa”, “Sanchi Stupa”, “Sanchi Tope”, “Sanci”, “Sančí”, “Sánčí”, “Sāñcī”, “Ступа №1 в Санчи”, “הסטופה הגדולה בסאנצ’י”, “הסטופה הגדולה של סאנצ’י”, “सांची”, “सांची का स्तूप”, “साञ्ची स्तूपः”, “මහා සාංචි ස්තූපය”, “සාංචි”, “සාංචි ස්තූපය”, “มหาสถูปสาญจี”, “サーンチーの仏教建造物群”, “サンチの塔”, “桑奇”, and “桑奇大塔”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Sanchi Stupa No.1 and Sanchi railway station.

Buddhist temple
Photo: Photo Dharma, CC BY 2.0.
is a Buddhist temple.

Railway station
Photo: Nikhilb239, CC BY 3.0.
is a small railway station in Raisen district, .

Sanchi

Latitude
23.487° or 23° 29′ 13″ north
Longitude
77.7406° or 77° 44′ 26″ east
Elevation
495 metres (1,624 feet)
Open location code
7JMVFPPR+R6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1124758411
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
9855411
Wiki­data ID
Q181123
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Sanchi” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سانشي”
  • Assamese: “সাঁচী”
  • Avaric: “Санчи Ступа”
  • Balinese: “Sanchi”
  • Basque: “Sanchi”
  • Bengali: “সাঁচী”
  • Bishnupriya: “সঞ্চি”
  • Burmese: “ဆန်ချီ”
  • Catalan: “Sanchi”
  • Cebuano: “Sanchi”
  • Cebuano: “Sānchi”
  • Chechen: “Санчи”
  • Chinese: “桑吉”
  • Croatian: “Sanchi”
  • Czech: “Sáňčí”
  • Dutch: “Boeddhistisch complex van Sanchi”
  • Dutch: “Sanchi”
  • Esperanto: “Sanĉi”
  • Esperanto: “Sanĉio”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Sanchi”
  • Finnish: “Sanchi”
  • French: “Sânchî”
  • Georgian: “სანჩი”
  • German: “Buddhistische Monumente bei Sanchi”
  • German: “Sanchi”
  • Gujarati: “સાંચીનો સ્તુપ”
  • Gujarati: “સાંચીનો સ્તૂપ”
  • Hausa: “Sanchi Stupa”
  • Hebrew: “המונומנטים הבודהיסטיים בסאנצ’י”
  • Hebrew: “המונומנטים הבודהיסטיים בסאנצי”
  • Hindi: “साँची का स्तूप”
  • Hindi: “साँची”
  • Hungarian: “Száncsi buddhista emlékek”
  • Hungarian: “Száncsi Buddhista emlékek”
  • Indonesian: “Sanchi”
  • Italian: “Monumenti buddisti presso Sanchi”
  • Japanese: “サーンチー”
  • Japanese: “サンチ”
  • Kannada: “ಸಾಂಚಿ”
  • Kannada: “ಸಾಂಚಿಯ ಬೌದ್ಧ ಸ್ಮಾರಕಗಳು”
  • Korean: “산치 스투파”
  • Korean: “산치”
  • Lithuanian: “Sančis”
  • Maithili: “साँचीक स्तुप”
  • Malagasy: “Sanchi”
  • Malay: “Sanchi”
  • Malayalam: “സാഞ്ചി”
  • Maltese: “Sanchi”
  • Marathi: “सांची स्तूप”
  • Marathi: “सांचीचा स्तूप”
  • Nepali: “साँचीको स्तूप”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sanchi”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਾਂਚੀ”
  • Persian: “سانچی”
  • Polish: “Sańći”
  • Portuguese: “Monumentos budistas de Sanchi”
  • Portuguese: “Sanchi”
  • Russian: “Санчи”
  • Sanskrit: “साँचीस्तूपः”
  • Sanskrit: “साञ्चीस्तूप”
  • Sanskrit: “साञ्चीस्तूपः”
  • Scots: “Sanchi”
  • Serbian: “Санчи”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sanchi”
  • Sinhala: “සාංචිය”
  • Spanish: “Gran estupa de Sanchi”
  • Spanish: “Sanchi”
  • Swedish: “Sanchi”
  • Tagalog: “Sanchi”
  • Tamil: “சாஞ்சி”
  • Tatar: “Санчи”
  • Telugu: “సాంచి స్థూపం”
  • Telugu: “సాంచి”
  • Thai: “สถูปสาญจี”
  • Turkish: “Sanchi”
  • Ukrainian: “Санчі”
  • Urdu: “سانچی”
  • Vietnamese: “Sanchi”
  • Western Panjabi: “سانچی سٹوپا”

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