Magadha
Rohtas District
Sasaram

Sasaram

Sasaram is a city in the region of , India. The town contains three tombs of Sur kings and a couple of related monuments. Sasaram lies on the Grand Trunk Road, which was refurbished by Sher Shah Suri.
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  • Type: City with 147,000 residents
  • Description: city in Rohtas district, Bihar, India
  • Also known as: “Sahasram” and “Sasseram”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sasaram Junction railway station and Tomb of Sher Shah Suri.

Railway station
Photo: Anup Sadi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is on the Gaya–Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Junction section of the Grand Chord line in India. It serves Sasaram and the surrounding areas in in the Indian state of .

Memorial
Photo: Nandanupadhyay, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a mausoleum located in Sasaram, in the Indian state of . Sher Shah Suri, who was the founder of the Sur Empire, commissioned the tomb for himself.

Sasaram

Latitude
24.951° or 24° 57′ 4″ north
Longitude
84.0149° or 84° 0′ 54″ east
Population
147,000
Elevation
114 metres (374 feet)
Open location code
7MP6X227+9W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 245727752
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1257086
Wiki­data ID
Q1949410
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In Other Languages

From Angika to Vietnamese—“Sasaram” goes by many names.
  • Angika: “सासाराम”
  • Arabic: “ساسارام”
  • Arabic: “سيسارام”
  • Asturian: “Sasaram”
  • Bengali: “সাসারাম”
  • Bhojpuri: “सासाराम”
  • Bishnupriya: “সাসারাম”
  • Catalan: “Sahsaram”
  • Catalan: “Sasaram”
  • Cebuano: “Sasarām”
  • Chinese: “瑟瑟拉姆”
  • Czech: “Sasaram”
  • Danish: “Sasaram”
  • Dutch: “Sasaram”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سيسارام”
  • Esperanto: “Sasaram”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Sasaram”
  • Finnish: “Sasaram”
  • French: “Sasaram”
  • German: “Sasaram”
  • Greek: “Σασαράμ”
  • Gujarati: “સાસારામ”
  • Hausa: “Sasaram”
  • Hebrew: “סאסארם”
  • Hindi: “सासाराम”
  • Hungarian: “Szaszaram”
  • Indonesian: “Sasaram”
  • Italian: “Sasaram”
  • Japanese: “サーサーラーム”
  • Kannada: “ಸಸರಾಂ”
  • Kannada: “ಸಸಾರಾಮ್”
  • Kannada: “ಸಸ್ಸರಾಮ್”
  • Kashmiri: “سسرام”
  • Korean: “사람”
  • Korean: “사사람”
  • Latvian: “Sasarama”
  • Lithuanian: “Sasaramas”
  • Malagasy: “Sasaram”
  • Malay: “Sasaram”
  • Marathi: “सासाराम”
  • Nepali: “सासाराम”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sasaram”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sasaram”
  • Norwegian: “Sasaram”
  • Oriya: “ସାସାରାମ”
  • Panjabi: “ਸਾਸਾਰਾਮ”
  • Persian: “ساسارام”
  • Polish: “Sasaram”
  • Portuguese: “Sasaram”
  • Russian: “Сасарам”
  • Sanskrit: “सासाराम”
  • Santali: “ᱥᱟᱥᱟᱨᱟᱢ”
  • Sinhala: “සසරම්”
  • Spanish: “Sasaram”
  • Swedish: “Sasaram”
  • Swedish: “Sasarām”
  • Tamil: “சசாரம்”
  • Tamil: “சசாராம்”
  • Tamil: “சாசாராம்”
  • Telugu: “ససరాం”
  • Telugu: “సాసరం”
  • Telugu: “సాసారామ్”
  • Thai: “ซาซาราม”
  • Turkish: “Sasaram”
  • Ukrainian: “Сасарам”
  • Urdu: “سسرام”
  • Vietnamese: “Sasaram”
  • “सासाराम”

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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 “Sasaram”. Photo: Rangan Datta Wiki, CC BY-SA 4.0.