South Gujarat
Surat District
Majura

Surat

Surat is a city in , . It is a bustling, successful commercial city with extremely limited western influence. This makes it an example of both the boom in Gujarat's development and a continuation of the state's historical role as a center for the mass production of high quality textiles.
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  • Type: City with 6,940,000 residents
  • Description: city in Gujarat, India
  • Also known as: “Navi surat”, “Sūrat”, and “Western Presidency”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Surat railway station and Surat Castle.

Railway station
Photo: Superfast1111, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a major railway station serving Surat, beside Gothangam, Kosad, , , , and . It is under the administrative control of the Western Railway zone of the Indian Railways.

Public building
, or Surat Fort, is a 16th-century structure in the city of Surat. The Ahmedabad king Sultan Mahmood-III ordered its construction to defend the city from the frequent attacks that had devastated it.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Amroli.

Town
is a suburb in around Surat state of in . The nearest airport is .

Surat

Latitude
21.2095° or 21° 12′ 34″ north
Longitude
72.8317° or 72° 49′ 54″ east
Population
6,940,000
Elevation
20 metres (66 feet)
IATA airport code
STV
United Nations Location Codes
IN STV and IN KAP
Open location code
7JHJ6R5J+QM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 10029899747
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1255364
Wiki­data ID
Q4629
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Surat” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Surat”
  • Arabic: “سورت”
  • Armenian: “Սուրաթ”
  • Armenian: “Սուրհաթ”
  • Asturian: “Surat”
  • Azerbaijani: “Surat”
  • Bashkir: “Сәскәләр ҡалаһы”
  • Bashkir: “Сурат”
  • Basque: “Surat”
  • Belarusian: “Сурат”
  • Bengali: “সুরত”
  • Bengali: “সুরাট”
  • Bhojpuri: “सूरत”
  • Bishnupriya: “সুরাত”
  • Bulgarian: “Сурат”
  • Catalan: “Surat”
  • Cebuano: “Sūrat”
  • Chechen: “Сурат”
  • Chinese: “Surat”
  • Chinese: “苏拉特”
  • Chinese: “蘇拉特”
  • Cornish: “Surat”
  • Croatian: “Surat”
  • Czech: “Súrat”
  • Danish: “Surat”
  • Dotyali: “सुरत”
  • Dutch: “Surat”
  • Eastern Mari: “Сурат”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سورت”
  • Esperanto: “Surat”
  • Esperanto: “Surato”
  • Estonian: “Surat”
  • Finnish: “Surat”
  • French: “Surat”
  • French: “Sûrat”
  • French: “Surate”
  • Galician: “Surat”
  • Georgian: “სურატი”
  • Georgian: “სურიაპური”
  • German: “Surat”
  • Greek: “Σουράτ”
  • Gujarati: “સુરત”
  • Hausa: “Surat”
  • Hebrew: “סוראט”
  • Hebrew: “סורט”
  • Hindi: “सुरत”
  • Hindi: “सूरत”
  • Hungarian: “Szúrat”
  • Icelandic: “Surat”
  • Ido: “Surat”
  • Indonesian: “Surat, Gujarat”
  • Indonesian: “Surat”
  • Interlingue: “Surat”
  • Irish: “Surat”
  • Italian: “Surat”
  • Italian: “Surāt”
  • Japanese: “スーラト”
  • Japanese: “スラト”
  • Kalaallisut: “Surat”
  • Kannada: “ಸೂರತ್”
  • Kashmiri: “سورت (شہر)”
  • Korean: “수라트”
  • Korean: “수랏트”
  • Ladin: “Surat”
  • Latin: “Surat”
  • Latin: “Surata”
  • Latvian: “Sūrata”
  • Lithuanian: “Suratas”
  • Macedonian: “Сурат”
  • Maithili: “सूरत”
  • Malay: “Surat, India”
  • Malay: “Surat”
  • Malayalam: “Surat”
  • Malayalam: “സൂരത്”
  • Malayalam: “സൂറത്ത്”
  • Malayalam: “സൂററ്റ്”
  • Maori: “Hurata”
  • Maori: “Surat”
  • Marathi: “सुरत”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Surat (Ìn-tō͘)”
  • Mingrelian: “სურატი”
  • Nepali: “सुरत”
  • Nepali: “सूरत”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Surat”
  • Norwegian: “Surat”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Surat”
  • Oriya: “ସୁରତ”
  • Ossetian: “Сурат”
  • Pampanga: “Surat”
  • Panjabi: “ਸੂਰਤ”
  • Persian: “سورات”
  • Persian: “سورت”
  • Persian: “صورت”
  • Piemontese: “Surat”
  • Polish: “Surat”
  • Portuguese: “Surate”
  • Portuguese: “Surrate”
  • Romanian: “Surat”
  • Russia Buriat: “Сурат”
  • Russian: “Сурат”
  • Sanskrit: “सुरत”
  • Sanskrit: “सूरत”
  • Santali: “ᱥᱩᱨᱚᱛ”
  • Serbian: “Сурат”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Surat”
  • Sinhala: “සුරට්”
  • Slovenian: “Surat”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سورات”
  • Spanish: “Surat”
  • Swahili: “Surat”
  • Swedish: “Surat”
  • Swedish: “Sūrat”
  • Tagalog: “Surat”
  • Talysh: “Surat”
  • Tamil: “சூரத்”
  • Tamil: “சூரத்து”
  • Tatar: “Сурат”
  • Telugu: “సూరత్ జిల్లా”
  • Telugu: “సూరత్”
  • Thai: “สุรัต”
  • Turkish: “Surat, Hindistan”
  • Turkish: “Surat”
  • Twi: “Surat”
  • Uighur: “Surat”
  • Uighur: “سۇرات”
  • Ukrainian: “Сурат”
  • Urdu: “سورت (شہر)”
  • Urdu: “سورت، گجرات”
  • Urdu: “سورت”
  • Uzbek: “Surat”
  • Venetian: “Surat”
  • Veps: “Surat”
  • Vietnamese: “Surat”
  • Volapük: “Surat”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Surat, Gujarat”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Surat”
  • Welsh: “Surat”
  • Western Armenian: “Սուրհաթ”
  • Western Panjabi: “سورت، گجرات”
  • Western Panjabi: “سورت”
  • Wu Chinese: “苏拉特”
  • Yue Chinese: “蘇拉特”
  • “सूरत”

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