Nalanda

Nalanda was a renowned Buddhist mahavihara in medieval , eastern India. Widely considered to be among the greatest centres of learning in the ancient world and often referred to as "the world's first residential university", it was located near the city of Rajagriha, roughly 90 kilometres southeast of Pataliputra.
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  • Type: Park
  • Description: ancient Hindu-Buddhist monastery in present-day Bihar, India
  • Also known as: “Mahavihara of Nalanda”, “Nālandā”, “Nalanda mahavihara”, “Nalanda Mahavihara”, and “Nālandā Mahāvihāra”
  • Postal code: 803111

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Nalanda railway station.

Railway station
, station code NLD, is a railway station and under Danapur railway division of East Central Railway. Nalanda is connected to metropolitan areas of India, by the Delhi–Kolkata main line via Mugalsarai–Patna route. is situated 2½ km southeast of Nalanda.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Nalanda.

Photo: Srijitakundan, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is the site of a famous Buddhist university or mahāvihāra in the state of . The university complex is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Nalanda

Latitude
25.13647° or 25° 8′ 11″ north
Longitude
85.4437° or 85° 26′ 37″ east
Inception
5th century
Open location code
7MQ74CPV+HF
Open­Street­Map ID
way 217765474
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Wiki­data ID
Q216243
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Yoruba—“Nalanda” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Nalanda”
  • Arabic: “نالاندا”
  • Arabic: “نالندة”
  • Assamese: “নালন্দা মহাবিহাৰ”
  • Awadhi: “प्राचीन नालंदा विश्वविद्यालय”
  • Balinese: “Nalanda”
  • Basque: “Nalanda”
  • Belarusian: “Наланда”
  • Bengali: “নালন্দা মহাবিহার বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়”
  • Bengali: “নালন্দা মহাবিহার”
  • Bengali: “নালন্দা”
  • Bhojpuri: “नालंदा”
  • Bhojpuri: “प्राचीन नालंदा विश्वविद्यालय”
  • Bulgarian: “Наланда”
  • Catalan: “Nalanda”
  • Cebuano: “Nālanda”
  • Cebuano: “Nāḷandā”
  • Cebuano: “Nalënda”
  • Chinese: “那兰陀寺”
  • Chinese: “那烂陀”
  • Chinese: “那烂陀寺”
  • Chinese: “那爛陀大學”
  • Chinese: “那爛陀寺”
  • Croatian: “Nalanda”
  • Czech: “Nalánda”
  • Czech: “Nálanda”
  • Danish: “Nalanda”
  • Danish: “Nālandā”
  • Dutch: “Nalanda (stad)”
  • Dutch: “Nalanda”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نالاندا”
  • Esperanto: “Nālandā”
  • Esperanto: “Nalando”
  • Estonian: “Nalanda”
  • Estonian: “Nālanda”
  • Estonian: “Nālandā”
  • Finnish: “Nalanda”
  • French: “Nalanda”
  • French: “Nâlandâ”
  • French: “Nālanda”
  • French: “Nālandā”
  • Georgian: “ნალანდა”
  • German: “Nalanda”
  • Greek: “Ναλάντα”
  • Gujarati: “nalanda”
  • Hausa: “Nalanda”
  • Hebrew: “נלנדה”
  • Hindi: “नालंदा”
  • Hindi: “नालन्दा महाविहार”
  • Hindi: “नालन्दा”
  • Hindi: “नालन्‍दा”
  • Hungarian: “Nálanda”
  • Indonesian: “Nalanda”
  • Italian: “Nalanda”
  • Italian: “Nālanda”
  • Italian: “Nālandā”
  • Japanese: “ナーランダ”
  • Japanese: “ナーランダー”
  • Japanese: “ナーランダ僧院”
  • Kannada: “ನಳಂದ ಅವಶೇಷಗಳು”
  • Kannada: “ನಳಂದ”
  • Kazakh: “Наланда”
  • Korean: “나란다 사”
  • Korean: “나란다사”
  • Korean: “나란타”
  • Korean: “나란타사”
  • Korean: “날란다 대승원”
  • Korean: “날란다”
  • Latin: “Nalanda”
  • Latin: “Nāḷandā”
  • Latvian: “Nālanda”
  • Lithuanian: “Nalanda”
  • Magahi: “नालन्दा महाविहार”
  • Magahi: “नालन्दा”
  • Maithili: “नालन्दा”
  • Malay: “Nalanda”
  • Malayalam: “Nalanda”
  • Malayalam: “നളന്ദ സർ‌വകലാശാല”
  • Malayalam: “നളന്ദ സർ‌വ്വകലാശാല”
  • Malayalam: “നളന്ദ”
  • Malayalam: “നാളന്ദ”
  • Maltese: “Nalanda Mahavihara”
  • Marathi: “नालंदा”
  • Nepali: “नालंदा”
  • Nepali: “नालन्दा”
  • Newari: “नालन्दा”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nalanda”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nālandā”
  • Norwegian: “Nālandā”
  • Oriya: “ନାଳନ୍ଦା”
  • Pali: “Nāḷandā”
  • Pali: “𑀦𑀸𑀴𑀦𑁆𑀤𑀸”
  • Persian: “نالاندا”
  • Polish: “Nalanda”
  • Portuguese: “Nalanda”
  • Pushto: “نالاندا”
  • Romanian: “Universitatea Nalanda”
  • Russian: “Наланда”
  • Sanskrit: “नलन्दा”
  • Sanskrit: “नलन्दाविश्वविद्यालयः”
  • Sanskrit: “नालंदा”
  • Sanskrit: “नालन्दा”
  • Sanskrit: “नालन्दानगरम्”
  • Sanskrit: “नालन्दामहाविहारः”
  • Sardinian: “Universidade de Nalanda”
  • Sinhala: “නාලන්දා”
  • Sinhala: “නාලන්දාව”
  • Slovak: “Nálanda”
  • Spanish: “Nalanda”
  • Swedish: “Nalanda”
  • Tamil: “நாலந்தா”
  • Tamil: “நாளந்தா”
  • Telugu: “నలంద విశ్వవిద్యాలయం”
  • Telugu: “నలంద”
  • Telugu: “నలందా విశ్వవిద్యాలయం”
  • Telugu: “నలందా”
  • Thai: “นาลันทา”
  • Thai: “นาลันทามหาวิหาร”
  • Tibetan: “ནྰ་ལན་དྰ་དགོན།”
  • Turkish: “Nalanda”
  • Ukrainian: “Наланда”
  • Urdu: “نالندہ”
  • Urdu: “نالنڈا”
  • Venetian: “Nālandā”
  • Vietnamese: “Nalanda”
  • Wu Chinese: “那烂陀寺”
  • Yoruba: “Nalanda”
  • “नालंदा”

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