Uttarakhand

Uttarakhand, formerly Uttaranchal, is a stunningly beautiful state in the of . Often called Devbhūmi, literally the "Land of God", Uttarakhand contains some of Hinduism's highly revered shrines and temples as well as excellent scenery and huge mountains.
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is the winter capital of the state of Uttarakhand. Nestled between the Himalayan foothills to the north and the Shivaliks to the south, the town offers breathtaking scenery.

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, also spelt Hardwar, is a Hindu pilgrimage site at the Ganges River, in the state of Uttarakhand.

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, a small town in the northern state of Uttarakhand, is famously known as the "yoga capital". Scenically located where the Ganges comes down from the Himalayas, catapulted to Western fame when the Beatles dropped by for a visit to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's ashram.

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is one of two major regions of Uttarakhand. is the more easily accessible northern and western part of Uttarakhand and borders .

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is a revenue and administrative division in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. It spans over the eastern half of the state and is bounded on the north by of China, on the east by , on the south by the state of , and on the west by Garhwal Division.

Uttarakhand

Latitude of center
30.0417° or 30° 2′ 30″ north
Longitude of center
79.0897° or 79° 5′ 23″ east
Population
10,100,000
Elevation
1,005 metres (3,297 feet)
Abbreviation
“UT”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2240945388
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
1444366
Wiki­data ID
Q1499
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Zulu—“Uttarakhand” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Uttarakhand”
  • Afrikaans: “Uttarakhand”
  • Albanian: “Uttarakand”
  • Amharic: “ኡተራኸንድ”
  • Amharic: “ውታራካንድ”
  • Angika: “उत्तराखण्ड”
  • Arabic: “أتراكند”
  • Arabic: “أُتَّرَاكَنْدُ”
  • Arabic: “أترنجل”
  • Arabic: “أُتَّرَنْجَلُ”
  • Arabic: “أوتاراخند”
  • Arabic: “أوتارانشال”
  • Arabic: “ولاية أوتاراخند”
  • Arabic: “ولاية أوتارانشال”
  • Aragonese: “Uttarakhand”
  • Armenian: “Ուտարկհանդ”
  • Assamese: “উত্তৰাখণ্ড ৰাজ্য”
  • Assamese: “উত্তৰাখণ্ড”
  • Assamese: “উত্তৰাঞ্চল”
  • Asturian: “Uttarakhand”
  • Awadhi: “उत्तराखण्ड”
  • Azerbaijani: “Uttarakhand”
  • Balinese: “Uttarakhand”
  • Bashkir: “Уттаракханд”
  • Basque: “Uttarakhand”
  • Belarusian: “Утаракганд”
  • Belarusian: “Утаракханд”
  • Bengali: “উত্তরাখণ্ড রাজ্য”
  • Bengali: “উত্তরাখণ্ড”
  • Bengali: “উত্তরাঞ্চল”
  • Bengali: “দেবভূমি”
  • Betawi: “Uttarakhand”
  • Bhojpuri: “उत्तराखंड”
  • Bhojpuri: “उत्तराखण्ड”
  • Bhojpuri: “उत्तराञ्चल”
  • Bhojpuri: “देवभूमि”
  • Bishnupriya: “উত্তরাখন্ড”
  • Bishnupriya: “উত্তরাঞ্চল”
  • Bosnian: “Uttarakhand”
  • Breton: “Uttarakhand”
  • Bulgarian: “Утаракханд”
  • Bulgarian: “Утаранчал”
  • Burmese: “ဥတ္တရာခန်ဒ်ပြည်နယ်”
  • Catalan: “Uttarakhand”
  • Cebuano: “State of Uttarakhand”
  • Central Atlas Tamazight: “Uttarakhand”
  • Central Bikol: “Uttarakhand”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئوتەراکەند”
  • Chavacano: “Uttarakhand”
  • Chechen: “Уттаракханд”
  • Cherokee: “ᎤᏔᎳᎧᏂᏗ”
  • Chinese: “Uttarakhand”
  • Chinese: “乌塔兰契尔邦”
  • Chinese: “乌塔兰恰尔邦”
  • Chinese: “乌塔拉坎德邦”
  • Chinese: “乌特拉肯德邦”
  • Chinese: “北安恰尔邦”
  • Chinese: “北安查尔邦”
  • Chinese: “北安查爾邦”
  • Chinese: “北阿坎德邦”
  • Chinese: “北阿肯德邦”
  • Chinese: “烏塔蘭契爾邦”
  • Chinese: “烏多安查”
  • Cornish: “Uttarakhand”
  • Corsican: “Uttarakhand”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Uttarakhand”
  • Croatian: “Uttarakhand”
  • Czech: “Uttarákhand”
  • Danish: “Uttarakhand”
  • Dhivehi: “އުއްތަރުކަންދު”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Uttarakhand”
  • Dotyali: “उत्तराखण्ड”
  • Dutch: “Uttarakhand”
  • Dutch: “Uttaranchal”
  • Dzongkha: “ཨུཏྟརཱཁཎྜ།”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اوتاراخند”
  • Erzya: “Уттаракханд”
  • Esperanto: “Utarakando”
  • Estonian: “Uttarakhand”
  • Extremaduran: “Uttarakhand”
  • Faroese: “Uttarakhand”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Uttarakhand”
  • Finnish: “Uttarakhand”
  • French: “État d’Uttarakhand”
  • French: “État d’Uttaranchal”
  • French: “État de l’Uttarakhand”
  • French: “Uttarakhand”
  • French: “Uttaranchal”
  • Friulian: “Uttarakhand”
  • Galician: “Uttarakhand”
  • Gan Chinese: “北阿坎德邦”
  • Ganda: “Uttarakhand”
  • Ganda: “Uttaranchal”
  • Georgian: “უტარაკჰანდი”
  • German: “Bundesstaat Uttarakhand”
  • German: “Bundesstaat Uttaranchal”
  • German: “Staat Uttarakhand”
  • German: “Uttarakhand”
  • German: “Uttaranchal”
  • Gilaki: “اوتاراکند”
  • Goan Konkani: “Ut’taranchal”
  • Goan Konkani: “उत्तरांचल”
  • Greek: “Ουταράχαντ”
  • Guarani: “Uttarakhand”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Uttarakhand”
  • Gujarati: “ઉત્તરાખંડ રાજ્ય”
  • Gujarati: “ઉત્તરાખંડ”
  • Gujarati: “ઉત્તરાંચલ”
  • Gujarati: “દેવભૂમિ”
  • Haitian: “Uttarakhand”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Pet-â-kham-tet-pông”
  • Hausa: “Uttarakhand”
  • Hebrew: “אוטאראקאנד”
  • Hebrew: “אוטראקהאנד”
  • Hindi: “उत्तरखंड”
  • Hindi: “उत्तराखंड राज्य”
  • Hindi: “उत्तराखंड शासन”
  • Hindi: “उत्तराखंड”
  • Hindi: “उत्तराखण्ड”
  • Hindi: “उत्तरांचल प्रदेश”
  • Hindi: “उत्तरांचल राज्य”
  • Hindi: “उत्तरांचल शासन”
  • Hindi: “उत्तराञ्चल”
  • Hindi: “देवभूमि उत्तराखंड”
  • Hindi: “देवभूमि”
  • Hungarian: “Uttarakhand”
  • Hungarian: “Uttaráncsal”
  • Iban: “Uttarakhand”
  • Icelandic: “Uttarakhand”
  • Ido: “Uttarakhand”
  • Igbo: “Devbhoomi”
  • Igbo: “Uttarakhand”
  • Igbo: “Uttaranchal”
  • Iloko: “Uttarakhand”
  • Indonesian: “Uttarakhand”
  • Interlingua: “Uttarakhand”
  • Interlingue: “Uttarakhand”
  • Irish: “Uttarakhand”
  • Italian: “Stato di Uttarakhand”
  • Italian: “Stato di Uttaranchal”
  • Italian: “Uttarakhand”
  • Italian: “Uttaranchal”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Uttarakhand”
  • Japanese: “ウッタラーカンド州”
  • Japanese: “ウッタラーチャル州”
  • Japanese: “ウッタラカンド州”
  • Japanese: “ウッタランチャル州”
  • Javanese: “Uttarakhand”
  • Kabyle: “Uttarakhand”
  • Kalaallisut: “Uttarakhand”
  • Kannada: “ಉತ್ತರಖಂಡ”
  • Kannada: “ಉತ್ತರಾಖಂಡ ರಾಜ್ಯ”
  • Kannada: “ಉತ್ತರಾಖಂಡ”
  • Kannada: “ಉತ್ತರಾಂಚಲ”
  • Kannada: “ದೇವಭೂಮಿ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Uttarakhand”
  • Kashmiri: “وۄتٕراکھَنٛڈ”
  • Kazakh: “Уттаракханд”
  • Khmer: “រដ្ឋឧត្តរាខណ្ឌ”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Uttarakhand”
  • Kirghiz: “Уттаракханд”
  • Komering: “Uttarakhand”
  • Korean: “우타라칸드”
  • Korean: “우타라칸드주”
  • Korean: “우타란찰”
  • Korean: “우타란찰주”
  • Korean: “우타르칸드”
  • Kurdish: “Uttarakhand”
  • Ladin: “Uttarakhand”
  • Ladino: “Uttarakhand”
  • Lao: “ລັດອຸຕຕະຣາຂັນ”
  • Lao: “ອຸຕຕະຣານຈານ”
  • Latgalian: “Uttarakhand”
  • Latin: “Uttarakhanda”
  • Latvian: “Utarakhanda”
  • Latvian: “Utarančala”
  • Ligurian: “Uttarakhand”
  • Limburgan: “Uttarakhand”
  • Lingala: “Uttarakhand”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Uttarakhand”
  • Lithuanian: “Utarakhandas”
  • Livvi: “Uttarakhand”
  • Lombard: “Uttarakhand”
  • Low German: “Uttarakhand”
  • Low German: “Uttaranchal”
  • Lower Silesian: “Uttarakhand”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Uttarakhand”
  • Lushai: “Uttarakhand”
  • Luxembourgish: “Uttarakhand”
  • Macedonian: “Утараканд”
  • Madurese: “Uttarakhand”
  • Magahi: “उत्तराखण्ड”
  • Magahi: “उत्तराञ्चल”
  • Magahi: “देवभूमि”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Uttarakhand”
  • Maithili: “उत्तराखंड”
  • Maithili: “उत्तराखण्ड”
  • Maithili: “उत्तराञ्चल”
  • Maithili: “देवभूमि”
  • Malagasy: “Uttarakhand”
  • Malay: “Uttarakhand”
  • Malayalam: “ഉത്തരാഖണ്ഡ് സംസ്ഥാനം”
  • Malayalam: “ഉത്തരാഖണ്ഡ്”
  • Malayalam: “ഉത്തരാഞ്ചൽ”
  • Malayalam: “ദേവഭൂമി”
  • Maltese: “Uttarakhand”
  • Manipuri: “ꯎꯠꯇꯔꯈꯟ”
  • Manx: “Uttarakhand”
  • Marathi: “उत्तराखंड राज्य”
  • Marathi: “उत्तराखंड”
  • Marathi: “उत्तरांचल”
  • Marathi: “देवभूमी”
  • Mazanderani: “اوتاراکند”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Uttarakhand”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Uttarakhand”
  • Minangkabau: “Uttarakhand”
  • Mingrelian: “უტარაკჰანდი”
  • Mirandese: “Uttarakhand”
  • Moksha: “Уттаракханд”
  • Mongolian: “Уттараканд”
  • Mongolian: “Уттаракханд”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “أوتاراخند”
  • Narom: “Uttarakhand”
  • Nauru: “Uttarakhand”
  • Neapolitan: “Taragand”
  • Nepali: “उत्तराखण्ड राज्य”
  • Nepali: “उत्तराखण्ड”
  • Nepali: “उत्तराञ्चल”
  • Nepali: “देवभूमि”
  • Newari: “उत्तराखण्ड”
  • Northern Frisian: “Uttarakhand”
  • Northern Luri: “ئوتاراکأند”
  • Northern Sami: “Uttarakhand”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Uttarakhand”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Uttarakhand”
  • Norwegian: “Uttarakhand”
  • Novial: “Uttarakhand”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Uttarakhand”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Uttarakhand”
  • Oriya: “ଉତ୍ତରାଖଣ୍ଡ ରାଜ୍ୟ”
  • Oriya: “ଉତ୍ତରାଖଣ୍ଡ”
  • Oriya: “ଉତ୍ତରାଞ୍ଚଳ”
  • Oriya: “ଦେବଭୂମି”
  • Oromo: “Uttarakhand”
  • Ossetian: “Уттаракханд”
  • Pa'o Karen: “ဝေင်ꩻနယ်ႏဥတ္တရာခန်ဒ်”
  • Pampanga: “Uttarakhand”
  • Panjabi: “ਉੱਤਰਾਖੰਡ ਰਾਜ”
  • Panjabi: “ਉਤਰਾਖੰਡ”
  • Panjabi: “ਉੱਤਰਾਖੰਡ”
  • Panjabi: “ਉੱਤਰਾਂਚਲ”
  • Panjabi: “ਦੇਵਭੂਮੀ”
  • Papiamento: “Uttarakhand”
  • Pedi: “Uttarakhand”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Uttarakhand”
  • Persian: “اتراکند”
  • Persian: “اترپرادش”
  • Persian: “اوتاراکند”
  • Picard: “Uttarakhand”
  • Piemontese: “Uttarakhand”
  • Polish: “Uttarakhand”
  • Polish: “Uttaranchal”
  • Portuguese: “Estado de Utaracanda”
  • Portuguese: “Utaracanda”
  • Portuguese: “Uttarakhand”
  • Portuguese: “Uttaranchal”
  • Prussian: “Uttarakhand”
  • Pushto: “اتر کنډ”
  • Pushto: “اترپرادش”
  • Quechua: “Uttarakhand”
  • Romanian: “Uttarakhand”
  • Romansh: “Uttarakhand”
  • Rundi: “Uttarakhand”
  • Russian: “Уттаракханд (штат)”
  • Russian: “Уттаракханд”
  • Russian: “Уттаранчал”
  • Russian: “штат Уттаракханд”
  • Russian: “штат Уттаранчал”
  • Sakizaya: “Uttarakhand”
  • Samogitian: “Uttarakhand”
  • Sanskrit: “उत्तरखण्डम्”
  • Sanskrit: “उत्तराखण्डः”
  • Sanskrit: “उत्तराखण्डराज्यम्”
  • Sanskrit: “उत्तरांचलम्”
  • Sanskrit: “उत्तराञ्चलः”
  • Sanskrit: “उत्तराञ्चलराज्यम्”
  • Sanskrit: “देवभूमिः”
  • Santali: “ᱩᱛᱛᱚᱨᱟᱝᱪᱚᱞ”
  • Santali: “ᱩᱛᱛᱚᱨᱟᱠᱷᱚᱸᱰ”
  • Saraiki: “اترا کھنڈ”
  • Sardinian: “Uttarakhand”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Uttarakhand”
  • Scots: “Uttarakhand”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Uttarakhand”
  • Serbian: “Утараканд”
  • Serbian: “Утараханд”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Utarakand”
  • Shona: “Uttarakhand”
  • Sicilian: “Uttarakhand”
  • Silesian: “Uttarakhand”
  • Sindhi: “اتراکنڊ”
  • Sinhala: “උත්තරාකන්ඩ් ප්‍රාන්තය”
  • Sinhala: “උත්තරාඛණ්ඩ් ප්‍රාන්තය”
  • Sinhala: “උත්තරාඛණ්ඩ්”
  • Slovak: “Uttarákhand”
  • Slovenian: “Utarakhand”
  • Slovenian: “Utarančal”
  • Somali: “Uttarakhand”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اوتاراکند”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Uttarakhand”
  • Spanish: “Estado de Uttaranchal”
  • Spanish: “Uttarakhand”
  • Spanish: “Uttaranchal”
  • Sundanese: “Uttarakhand”
  • Swahili: “Uttarakhand”
  • Swedish: “Uttarakhand”
  • Swiss German: “Uttarakhand”
  • Tagalog: “Uttarakhand”
  • Tajik: “Уттаракханд”
  • Tajik: “Уттаранчал”
  • Talysh: “Uttarakhand”
  • Tamil: “உத்தரகண்ட்”
  • Tamil: “உத்தராகண்ட மாநிலம்”
  • Tamil: “உத்தராகண்டம்”
  • Tamil: “உத்தராஞ்சல்”
  • Tamil: “தேவபூமி”
  • Tatar: “Уттаракханд”
  • Tatar: “Уттаракһанд”
  • Telugu: “ఉత్తరాఖండ్ రాష్ట్రం”
  • Telugu: “ఉత్తరాఖండ్”
  • Telugu: “ఉత్తరాంచల్”
  • Telugu: “దేవభూమి”
  • Tetum: “Uttarakhand”
  • Thai: “รัฐอุตตราขัณฑ์”
  • Tibetan: “ཨུཏྟརཱཁཎྜ།”
  • Tok Pisin: “Utarakhan”
  • Tok Pisin: “Uttarakhand”
  • Tok Pisin: “Uttaranchal”
  • Tulu: “ಉತ್ತರಾಖಂಡ”
  • Turkish: “Uttarakhand”
  • Turkmen: “Uttarakhand”
  • Twi: “Uttarakhand”
  • Tyap: “Uttarakhand”
  • Tyap: “Uttaranchal”
  • Udmurt: “Уттаракханд”
  • Uighur: “ئۇتتاراخەند شىتاتى”
  • Ukrainian: “Уттаракганд”
  • Ukrainian: “Уттаракханд”
  • Ukrainian: “Уттаранчал”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Uttarakhand”
  • Urdu: “اتر کھنڈ”
  • Urdu: “اتراکھنڈ”
  • Urdu: “اترانتچل”
  • Urdu: “اترکھنڈ”
  • Urdu: “دیوبھومی”
  • Urdu: “ریاست اتراکھنڈ”
  • Urdu: “ریاست اترانچل”
  • Uzbek: “Uttarakhand”
  • Venetian: “Uttarakhand”
  • Veps: “Uttarakhand”
  • Vietnamese: “Uttarakhand”
  • Vlaams: “Uttarakhand”
  • Vlax Romani: “Uttarakhand”
  • Volapük: “Uttarakhand”
  • Võro: “Uttarakhand”
  • Walloon: “Uttarakhand”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Uttarakhand”
  • Welsh: “Uttarakhand”
  • Western Armenian: “Ութարաքհանտ”
  • Western Frisian: “Uttarakhand”
  • Western Panjabi: “اُتّراکھنڈ”
  • Western Panjabi: “اترکھنڈ”
  • Wolof: “Uttarakhand”
  • Wu Chinese: “北阿坎德邦”
  • Yakut: “Уттаракханд”
  • Yiddish: “אוטאראקהאנד”
  • Yiddish: “אוטאַראַקהאַנד”
  • Yoruba: “Uttarakhand”
  • Yue Chinese: “北阿坎德邦”
  • Zeeuws: “Uttarakhand”
  • Zhuang: “Uttarakhand”
  • Zulu: “Uttarakhand”
  • “IN-UK”
  • “IN-UT”
  • “ma Utalakan”
  • “Q1499”
  • “UK”
  • “Uttarakhand”
  • “उत्तराखंड”

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