Skardu
Skardu is a city located in Pakistan-administered Gilgit-Baltistan in the disputed Kashmir region. Skardu serves as the capital of Skardu District and the Baltistan Division.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Hannan Balti, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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- Type: City with 260,000 residents
- Description: city in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
- Also known as: “Iskardu”
Photo: Nazarhussain, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Imtiaz balti, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Skardu Fort.
Skardu Fort
Photo: Hannan Balti, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Skardu Fort or Kharpocho, meaning The king of Forts, is a fort in Skardu in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan. The fort mainly served as a military stronghold and strategic lookout.
Skardu
- Category: locality
- Location: Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
35.2864° or 35° 17′ 11″ northLongitude
75.6401° or 75° 38′ 24″ eastPopulation
260,000Elevation
2,241 metres (7,352 feet)IATA airport code
KDUOpen location code
8J7Q7JPR+G2OpenStreetMap ID
node 4029819717OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Skardu” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سكردو”
- Asturian: “Skardu”
- Bengali: “স্কার্দু”
- Catalan: “Skardo”
- Cebuano: “Skārdu (kapital sa distrito sa Pakistan)”
- Cebuano: “Skārdu”
- Chinese: “斯卡杜”
- Chinese: “斯卡都”
- Chinese: “錫卡都”
- Croatian: “Skardu”
- Czech: “Skardu”
- Danish: “Skardu”
- Dutch: “Skardu”
- Esperanto: “Skardu”
- Estonian: “Skardū”
- Finnish: “Skardu”
- French: “Skardu”
- Georgian: “სკარდუ”
- German: “Skardu”
- Greek: “Σκαρντού”
- Gujarati: “સ્કર્ડુ”
- Hindi: “स्कर्दू”
- Indonesian: “Skardu”
- Italian: “Skardu”
- Japanese: “スカルドゥ”
- Kannada: “ಸ್ಕರ್ಡ್”
- Korean: “스카르두”
- Latvian: “Skardu”
- Lithuanian: “Skardu”
- Magahi: “स्कर्दू”
- Malay: “Skardu”
- Malayalam: “സ്കാർഡു”
- Marathi: “स्कर्दू”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Skardu”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Skardu”
- Persian: “سکردو”
- Polish: “Skardu”
- Portuguese: “Skardu”
- Russian: “Скарду”
- Serbian: “Скарду”
- Sindhi: “اسڪردو”
- Sinhala: “ස්කර්දු”
- Slovak: “Skardu”
- Slovenian: “Skardu”
- Spanish: “Skardu”
- Swedish: “Skardu”
- Tamil: “ஸ்கர்டு”
- Tamil: “ஸ்கற்டு”
- Telugu: “స్కార్డ్యూ”
- Thai: “สการ์ดู”
- Turkish: “Skardu”
- Ukrainian: “Скарду”
- Urdu: “اسکردو”
- Urdu: “سکردو”
- Vietnamese: “Skardu”
- Welsh: “Scyrdw”
- Western Panjabi: “سکردو”
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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 Wikipedia page “Skardu”. Photo: Optographer.optographer, CC BY-SA 3.0.