Ujjain
Ujjain is a city in the Malwa region of Madhya Pradesh in India. It is home to the Mahakaleshwar Temple, one of the 12 Jyotirlingas of India, and famous for the Hindu pilgrimage Kumbh Mela, gathering hundreds of millions of pilgrims every 12 years.
- Type: City with 100,000 residents
- Description: ancient city beside the Kshipra River in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh
- Also known as: “Avanti”, “Avantika”, “Avantikapuri”, “Avantipur”, “Oojein, Malwa”, “Udždžainí”, “Ujain”, “Ujjayini”, “Ujjayinī”, “Uyyain”, “אוג’ן”, “अवंतिका”, “अवन्तिका”, “उज्जैनी”, “অবন্তিনগর”, “অবন্তিপুর”, “ઉજજૈન”, “ଅବନ୍ତି”, “உஜ்ஜைனி”, “உஜ்ஜைனிப்பட்டணம்”, “ಉಜ್ಜೆಯನ”, “ಉಜ್ಜೈನ್”, “ഉജ്ജയനി”, “优禅尼”, and “邬阇衍那”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Mahakaleshwar Jyotirlinga and Ujjain Junction railway station.
Ujjain Junction railway station
Railway station
Ujjain
- Categories: big city, ancient city, human settlement, and locality
- Location: Kothi Mahal, Ujjain district, Malwa, Madhya Pradesh, Central India, India, South Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
23.1885° or 23° 11′ 19″ north
Longitude
75.7717° or 75° 46′ 18″ east
Population
100,000
Elevation
494 metres (1,621 feet)
UN/LOCODE
IN UJJ
Open location code
7JMQ5QQC+CM
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Ujjain” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Ujjaini”
- Albanian: “Uxhaini”
- Arabic: “أوجاين”
- Aragonese: “Ujjain”
- Assamese: “উজ্জয়িন”
- Asturian: “Ujjain”
- Basque: “Ujjain”
- Belarusian: “Уджайн”
- Bengali: “উজ্জয়িনী”
- Bhojpuri: “उज्जैन”
- Bishnupriya: “উজ্জৈন”
- Catalan: “Ujjain”
- Cebuano: “Ujjain”
- Chinese: “乌贾因”
- Chinese: “烏賈因”
- Czech: “Udždžain”
- Danish: “Ujjain”
- Dutch: “Ujjain”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اوجاين”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مدينه اوجاين”
- Esperanto: “Uĝĝen”
- Esperanto: “Ujjain”
- Estonian: “Ujjain”
- Fiji Hindi: “Ujjain”
- Finnish: “Ujjain”
- French: “Ujjain”
- Georgian: “უჯაინი”
- German: “Ujjain”
- Goan Konkani: “Ujjain”
- Goan Konkani: “उज्जैन”
- Greek: “Ουτζέν”
- Gujarati: “ઉજ્જૈન”
- Hebrew: “אוג’יין”
- Hindi: “उज्जैन”
- Hungarian: “Uddzsaín”
- Indonesian: “Ujjain”
- Irish: “Ujjain”
- Italian: “Ujjain”
- Japanese: “ウッジャイン”
- Kannada: “ಉಜ್ಜಯಿನಿ”
- Kannada: “ಉಜ್ಜೆಯನ್”
- Kannada: “ಉಜ್ಜೆಯಿನಿ”
- Komering: “Ujjain”
- Korean: “우자인”
- Ladin: “Ujjain”
- Latvian: “Udžaina”
- Literary Chinese: “鄔闍衍那”
- Lithuanian: “Udžainas”
- Magahi: “उज्जैन”
- Maithili: “उज्जैन”
- Malagasy: “Ujjain”
- Malay: “Ujjain”
- Malayalam: “ഉജ്ജയിൻ”
- Marathi: “उज्जैन”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ujjain”
- Nepali: “उज्जैन”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ujjain”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ujjain”
- Norwegian: “Ujjain”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Ujjain”
- Oriya: “ଉଜ୍ଜୟିନୀ”
- Oriya: “ଉଜ୍ଜୈନ”
- Pampanga: “Ujjain”
- Panjabi: “ਉੱਜੈਨ”
- Persian: “اوجائین”
- Polish: “Ujjain”
- Portuguese: “Ujaim”
- Portuguese: “Ujjain”
- Pushto: “اوجېن”
- Russian: “Удджайн”
- Russian: “Уджайи”
- Sanskrit: “उज्जयिनी”
- Santali: “ᱩᱡᱡᱮᱱ”
- Santali: “ᱩᱡᱽᱡᱮᱱ”
- Scots: “Ujjain”
- Serbian: “Udžajin”
- Serbian: “Уџајин”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ujjain”
- Sindhi: “اجين”
- Sinhala: “උජ්ජයින්”
- South Azerbaijani: “اوجائین”
- Spanish: “Ujjain”
- Swedish: “Ujjain”
- Tamil: “உஜ்ஜைன்”
- Tatar: “Уджджайн”
- Telugu: “ఉజ్జయిని”
- Telugu: “ఉజ్జయిన్”
- Thai: “อุชเชน”
- Turkish: “Ujjain”
- Ukrainian: “Удджайн”
- Urdu: “اجین”
- Urdu: “اوجین”
- Uzbek: “Ujjayn”
- Venetian: “Ujjain”
- Vietnamese: “Ujjain”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ujjain”
- Western Panjabi: “اجین”
- Wu Chinese: “乌贾因”
- “उज्जैन”
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