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Varanasi
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Varanasi

Varanasi, once known as Benares or Banaras and Kashi, is a city at the banks of the Ganges River in , . Being the most sacred city in Hinduism and Jainism, and important in the history of Buddhism, Varanasi is India's most important pilgrimage destination.
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  • Type: City with 3,100,000 residents
  • Description: city on the banks of the Ganges in the Uttar Pradesh state of India
  • Also known as: “Banaras”, “Banāras”, “Banares”, “Benaras”, “Kashi”, “Kāsi”, and “Varanassi”
  • Historically known as: “Benares”
Photo: Argenberg, CC BY 4.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Varanasi City railway station and Varanasi Junction Railway Station.

Railway station
is one of the railway stations in Varanasi. It is 4 kilometres Northeast of , 10 kilometres northeast of Banaras Hindu University and 23 kilometres southeast of .

Railway station
Photo: McKay Savage, CC BY 2.0.
is the main railway station serving the city of Varanasi. The other key railway stations in the Varanasi Metro area are , , and Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Junction.

Hindu temple
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is a dedicated to Shiva. It is located in Vishwanath Gali, in Varanasi, , India. The temple is a Hindu pilgrimage site and is one of the twelve Jyotirlinga shrines.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Sigra.

Locality
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is an urban locality in the city of Varanasi, , . The residence of the Mayor of Varanasi is also located in the Ghanti Mill Road of .

Varanasi

Latitude
25.3356° or 25° 20′ 8″ north
Longitude
83.0076° or 83° 0′ 28″ east
Population
3,100,000
Elevation
86 metres (282 feet)
IATA airport code
VNS
United Nations Location Code
IN VNS
Open location code
7MQ582P5+73
Open­Street­Map ID
node 287687798
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1253405
Wiki­data ID
Q79980
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Varanasi” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Benares”
  • Afrikaans: “Varanasi”
  • Afrikaans: “Waranasi”
  • Albanian: “Benares, Kashi”
  • Albanian: “Varanasi”
  • Arabic: “فاراناسي”
  • Arabic: “وارانسي”
  • Armenian: “Վարանասի”
  • Asturian: “Benarés”
  • Awadhi: “काशी”
  • Awadhi: “वाराणसी”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bənarəs”
  • Azerbaijani: “Varanasi”
  • Basque: “Benares”
  • Basque: “Varanasi”
  • Belarusian: “Варанасі”
  • Bengali: “কাশী”
  • Bengali: “বারাণসী”
  • Bengali: “বেনারস”
  • Bhojpuri: “काशी”
  • Bhojpuri: “बनारस”
  • Bhojpuri: “वाराणसी”
  • Bishnupriya: “বারানসি”
  • Breton: “Varanasi”
  • Bulgarian: “Бенарес”
  • Bulgarian: “Варанаси”
  • Burmese: “ဗာရာဏသီမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Benares”
  • Catalan: “Benarés”
  • Catalan: “Varanasi”
  • Cebuano: “Varanasi”
  • Central Bikol: “Varanasi”
  • Central Kurdish: “ڤاراناسی”
  • Chechen: “Варанаси”
  • Chinese: “Benares”
  • Chinese: “婆羅痆斯”
  • Chinese: “波羅奈”
  • Chinese: “瓦兰希”
  • Chinese: “瓦拉納西”
  • Chinese: “瓦拉纳西”
  • Chinese: “瓦拉那西”
  • Chinese: “瓦臘納西”
  • Chinese: “瓦蘭希”
  • Chinese: “維華拿斯”
  • Chinese: “貝拿勒斯”
  • Chinese: “貝那拉斯”
  • Chinese: “贝拿勒斯”
  • Chuvash: “Варанаси”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Varanasi”
  • Croatian: “Varanasi”
  • Czech: “Káší”
  • Czech: “Varanasi”
  • Czech: “Varánásí”
  • Czech: “Váránasí”
  • Czech: “Váránásí”
  • Danish: “Varanasi”
  • Dotyali: “वाराणसी”
  • Dutch: “Benares”
  • Dutch: “Varanasi”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فاراناسى”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مدينه فاراناسى”
  • Esperanto: “Benares”
  • Esperanto: “Varanasio”
  • Estonian: “Varanasi”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Varanasi”
  • Finnish: “Benares”
  • Finnish: “Varanasi”
  • French: “Benares”
  • French: “Bénarès”
  • French: “Kâshî”
  • French: “Varanaci”
  • French: “Vârânaçî”
  • French: “Varanasi”
  • French: “Vârânasî”
  • French: “Vārānasī”
  • Galician: “Benarés”
  • Georgian: “ბარანასი”
  • Georgian: “ბენარასი”
  • Georgian: “ვარანასი”
  • Georgian: “კაში”
  • German: “Banaras”
  • German: “Benaras”
  • German: “Benares”
  • German: “Varanasi”
  • German: “Waranasi”
  • Goan Konkani: “काशी”
  • Greek: “Βαρανάσι”
  • Greek: “Δρόμοι του Μπενάρες”
  • Greek: “Κάσι”
  • Greek: “Μπεναρές”
  • Greek: “Μπενάρες”
  • Gujarati: “કાશી”
  • Gujarati: “બનારસ”
  • Gujarati: “વારાણસી”
  • Haitian: “Benarès”
  • Hebrew: “בנארס”
  • Hebrew: “ואראנאסי”
  • Hebrew: “ואראנסי”
  • Hebrew: “וראנאסי”
  • Hebrew: “וראנסי”
  • Hebrew: “ורנסי”
  • Hindi: “Kashi”
  • Hindi: “काशी”
  • Hindi: “बनारस”
  • Hindi: “वाराणसी”
  • Hindi: “वाराणासी”
  • Hungarian: “Váránaszi”
  • Indonesian: “Benares”
  • Indonesian: “Varanasi”
  • Irish: “Varanasi”
  • Italian: “Benares”
  • Italian: “Varanasi”
  • Italian: “Vārāṇasī”
  • Japanese: “ヴァーラーナシー”
  • Japanese: “ヴァーラーナスィー”
  • Japanese: “ヴァラナシ”
  • Japanese: “カーシー”
  • Japanese: “バナーラス”
  • Japanese: “バラナシ”
  • Japanese: “ベナレス”
  • Japanese: “ワーラーナシー”
  • Japanese: “ワラナシ”
  • Kannada: “ಕಾಶಿ”
  • Kannada: “ಬನಾರಸ”
  • Kannada: “ಬನಾರಸ್”
  • Kannada: “ವಾರಣಾಸಿ”
  • Kannada: “ವಾರಾಣಸಿ”
  • Kashmiri: “بنارس”
  • Kinaray-A: “Bārāṇasī”
  • Kirghiz: “Bapaнаcи”
  • Kirghiz: “Варанаси”
  • Korean: “바라나시”
  • Korean: “베나레스”
  • Ladin: “Varanasi”
  • Latin: “Benares”
  • Latin: “Varanasi”
  • Latvian: “Baranasa”
  • Latvian: “Barānasa”
  • Latvian: “Kāši”
  • Latvian: “Varanasi”
  • Latvian: “Vārānasī”
  • Lithuanian: “Benaresas”
  • Lithuanian: “Varanasis”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Varanasi”
  • Luxembourgish: “Varanasi”
  • Maithili: “बनारस”
  • Maithili: “वाराणसी”
  • Malagasy: “Varanasi”
  • Malay: “Varanasi, Cantonment”
  • Malay: “Varanasi”
  • Malayalam: “Varanasi”
  • Malayalam: “കാശി”
  • Malayalam: “ബനാറസ്”
  • Malayalam: “വരാണസി”
  • Malayalam: “വാരണാസി”
  • Malayalam: “വാരാണസി”
  • Marathi: “काशी”
  • Marathi: “वाराणसी”
  • Mazanderani: “واراناسي”
  • Mazanderani: “وارناسی”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Benares”
  • Mingrelian: “ვარანასი”
  • Nepali: “काशी”
  • Nepali: “बनारस”
  • Nepali: “वाराणसी”
  • Newari: “वाराणसी”
  • Newari: “वाराणासी”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Banaras”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Benares”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Varanasi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Vârânasî”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Varanasi”
  • Norwegian: “Varanasi”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Benarès”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Varanasi”
  • Oriya: “ବାରଣାସୀ”
  • Oriya: “ବାରାଣସୀ”
  • Ossetian: “Варанаси”
  • Pali: “Bārāṇasī”
  • Pampanga: “Varanasi”
  • Panjabi: “ਵਾਰਾਣਸੀ”
  • Persian: “بنارس”
  • Persian: “واراناسی”
  • Persian: “وارانسی”
  • Polish: “Benares”
  • Polish: “Varanasi”
  • Polish: “Waranasi”
  • Portuguese: “Benares”
  • Portuguese: “Benerés”
  • Portuguese: “Kasi”
  • Portuguese: “Varanasi”
  • Pushto: “وراناسي”
  • Romanian: “Varanasi”
  • Russian: “Банарас”
  • Russian: “Бенарес”
  • Russian: “Варанаси”
  • Russian: “Каши”
  • Sanskrit: “काशी”
  • Sanskrit: “वाराणसी”
  • Santali: “ᱠᱟᱥᱤ”
  • Santali: “ᱵᱚᱱᱟᱨᱚᱥ”
  • Santali: “ᱵᱟᱨᱟᱬᱟᱥᱤ”
  • Santali: “ᱵᱟᱱᱟᱨᱟᱥ”
  • Saraiki: “بنارس”
  • Scots: “Varanasi”
  • Serbian: “Бенарес”
  • Serbian: “Варанаси”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Benares”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Varanasi”
  • Sindhi: “بنارس”
  • Sindhi: “واراناسي”
  • Sinhala: “කාශි”
  • Sinhala: “බණාරස්”
  • Sinhala: “බරණැස”
  • Sinhala: “බෙණාරස්”
  • Sinhala: “වාරාණසී”
  • Slovak: “Benáres”
  • Slovak: “Váránasí”
  • Slovenian: “Banaras”
  • Slovenian: “Benares”
  • Slovenian: “Varanasi”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بنارس”
  • Spanish: “Banarasi”
  • Spanish: “Baranasi”
  • Spanish: “Benares”
  • Spanish: “Benarés”
  • Spanish: “Kashi”
  • Spanish: “Kashí”
  • Spanish: “Kāshi”
  • Spanish: “Kāshī”
  • Spanish: “Kasi”
  • Spanish: “Kaśi”
  • Spanish: “Kaśī”
  • Spanish: “Kāśi”
  • Spanish: “Kāśī”
  • Spanish: “Vanarasi”
  • Spanish: “Vanarasí”
  • Spanish: “Varanasi”
  • Spanish: “Varanasí”
  • Spanish: “Varānasi”
  • Spanish: “Vārānasi”
  • Swahili: “Varanasi”
  • Swedish: “Banaras”
  • Swedish: “Benaras”
  • Swedish: “Benares”
  • Swedish: “Varanasi”
  • Sylheti: “ꠛꠦꠘꠣꠞꠡ”
  • Tagalog: “Varanasi”
  • Tajik: “Банорас”
  • Talysh: “Varanasi”
  • Tamil: “காசி”
  • Tamil: “வாரணாசி”
  • Telugu: “కాశి/వారణాసి”
  • Telugu: “కాశి”
  • Telugu: “కాశీ”
  • Telugu: “బెనారస్”
  • Telugu: “వారణాశి”
  • Telugu: “వారణాసి”
  • Telugu: “వారాణసి”
  • Thai: “แคว้นพาราณสี”
  • Thai: “พาราณสี”
  • Thai: “พาราณาสี”
  • Thai: “เมืองพาราณสี”
  • Turkish: “Benares”
  • Turkish: “Varanasi”
  • Twi: “Varanasi”
  • Ukrainian: “Бенарес”
  • Ukrainian: “Варанасі”
  • Urdu: “بنارس”
  • Urdu: “وارانسی”
  • Uzbek: “Varanasi”
  • Venetian: “Varanasi”
  • Vietnamese: “Varanasi”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Varanasi”
  • Welsh: “Benares”
  • Welsh: “Faranasi”
  • Welsh: “Varanasi”
  • Western Panjabi: “وارانسی”
  • Wu Chinese: “瓦拉纳西”
  • Yakut: “Варанаси”
  • Yue Chinese: “維華拿斯”
  • “बनारस”

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