Western Madhya Pradesh
Ujjain
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Ujjain

Ujjain is a city in the state of in . It is home to the Mahakaleshwar Temple, one of the 12 Jyotirlingas of India.
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  • Type: City with 100,000 residents
  • Description: ancient city beside the Kshipra River in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh
  • Also known as: “Oojein, Malwa”, “Ujjayini”, and “Ujjayinī”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mahakaleshwar Jyotirlinga and Ujjain Junction railway station.

Hindu temple
Photo: LRBurdak, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a dedicated to Shiva and is one of the twelve Jyotirlingas, shrines which are said to be the most sacred abodes of Shiva.

Railway station
Photo: Superfast1111, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is the main railway station of Ujjain city in the western part of . Its code is UJN. Ujjain Junction falls under the administrative control of Western Railway Zone of Indian Railways.

Ujjain

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)
United Nations Location Code
IN UJJ
Open location code
7JMQ5QQC+CM
Open­Street­Map ID
node 245712057
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1253914
Wiki­data ID
Q200119
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“Ujjain” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Avanti”
  • Albanian: “Avantika”
  • Albanian: “Avantikapuri”
  • Albanian: “Ujain”
  • Albanian: “Ujjaini”
  • Albanian: “Ujjayini”
  • Albanian: “Uxhaini”
  • Arabic: “أوجاين”
  • Aragonese: “Ujjain”
  • Assamese: “উজ্জয়িন”
  • Asturian: “Ujjain”
  • Basque: “Ujjain”
  • Bengali: “অবন্তিনগর”
  • Bengali: “অবন্তিপুর”
  • Bengali: “উজ্জয়িনী”
  • Bengali: “উজ্জৈন”
  • Bhojpuri: “उज्जैन”
  • Bishnupriya: “উজ্জৈন”
  • Catalan: “Ujjain”
  • Cebuano: “Ujjain”
  • Chinese: “Ujjain”
  • Chinese: “乌贾因”
  • Chinese: “优禅尼”
  • Chinese: “烏賈因”
  • Chinese: “邬阇衍那”
  • Chinese: “鄔闍衍那”
  • Czech: “Udždžain”
  • Czech: “Udždžainí”
  • Danish: “Ujjain”
  • Dutch: “Ujjain”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اوجاين”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مدينه اوجاين”
  • Esperanto: “Uĝĝen”
  • Esperanto: “Ujjain”
  • Estonian: “Ujjain”
  • Finnish: “Ujjain”
  • French: “Ujjain”
  • Georgian: “უჯაინი”
  • German: “Ujjain”
  • Goan Konkani: “Ujjain”
  • Goan Konkani: “उज्जैन”
  • Greek: “Ουτζέν”
  • Gujarati: “ઉજજૈન”
  • Gujarati: “ઉજ્જૈન”
  • Hebrew: “אוג’יין”
  • Hebrew: “אוג’ן”
  • Hindi: “अवंतिका”
  • Hindi: “उज्जैन”
  • Hungarian: “Uddzsaín”
  • Indonesian: “Ujjain”
  • Irish: “Ujjain”
  • Italian: “Ujjain”
  • Japanese: “ウッジャイン”
  • Kannada: “ಉಜ್ಜಯಿನಿ”
  • Kannada: “ಉಜ್ಜೆಯನ”
  • Kannada: “ಉಜ್ಜೆಯನ್”
  • Kannada: “ಉಜ್ಜೆಯಿನಿ”
  • Kannada: “ಉಜ್ಜೈನ್”
  • Kashmiri: “اوجین”
  • Komering: “Ujjain”
  • Korean: “우자인”
  • Ladin: “Ujjain”
  • Latvian: “Udžaina”
  • Literary Chinese: “鄔闍衍那”
  • Lithuanian: “Udžainas”
  • Maithili: “उज्जैन”
  • Malagasy: “Ujjain”
  • Malay: “Ujjain”
  • Malayalam: “Ujjain”
  • Malayalam: “ഉജ്ജയനി”
  • Malayalam: “ഉജ്ജയിൻ”
  • Marathi: “अवंतिका”
  • Marathi: “उज्जयिनी”
  • Marathi: “उज्जैन”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Ujjain”
  • Nepali: “उज्जैन”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ujjain”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ujjain”
  • Norwegian: “Ujjain”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ujjain”
  • Oriya: “Ujjain”
  • Oriya: “ଅବନ୍ତି”
  • Oriya: “ଉଜ୍ଜୟିନୀ”
  • Oriya: “ଉଜ୍ଜୈନ”
  • Pampanga: “Ujjain”
  • Panjabi: “ਉੱਜੈਨ”
  • Persian: “اوجائین”
  • Polish: “Ujjain”
  • Portuguese: “Ujaim”
  • Portuguese: “Ujjain”
  • Pushto: “اوجېن”
  • Russian: “Удджайн”
  • Russian: “Уджайи”
  • Russian: “Уджайн”
  • Sanskrit: “अवन्तिका”
  • Sanskrit: “उज्जयिनी”
  • Sanskrit: “उज्जैनी”
  • Santali: “ᱩᱡᱡᱮᱱ”
  • Santali: “ᱩᱡᱽᱡᱮᱱ”
  • Scots: “Ujjain”
  • Serbian: “Udžajin”
  • Serbian: “Ujjain”
  • Serbian: “Уџајин”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ujjain”
  • Sinhala: “උජ්ජයින්”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اوجائین”
  • Spanish: “Avanti”
  • Spanish: “Avantipur”
  • Spanish: “Ujjain”
  • Spanish: “Ujjaini”
  • Spanish: “Ujjayini”
  • Spanish: “Ujjayinī”
  • Spanish: “Uyyain”
  • Swedish: “Ujjain”
  • Tamil: “உஜ்ஜைனி”
  • Tamil: “உஜ்ஜைனிப்பட்டணம்”
  • 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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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 “Ujjain”. Photo: Nilimajhapate, CC BY-SA 4.0.