Wayanad
Wayanad is a beautiful mountainous district in the Malabar region of Kerala located on the western ghats. It is sparsely populated and rural, with most of the land area covered with forests.
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- Type: district of India with 817,000 residents
- Description: district of Kerala, India
- Also known as: “distritu de Wayanad”, “Vayanad”, “Wainad”, “Wayanad (distritu)”, “Wayanad district”, “Waynad”, “Wynaad”, “Wynad”, “Wynnad”, “वयानाड जिला”, “वय्नाड् मण्डलम्”, “वायानद जिला”, “வயநாடு”, “వయనాడు”, “వైనాడ్”, “ವಯನಾಡ್”, “ವೈನಾಡ್”, “ವೈನ್ನಾಡ್”, and “ワヤナード県”
- Neighbors: Chamarajanagar, Kannur District, Kozhikode District, Malappuram District, Mysore, and Nilgiris
- Location: Malabar, Kerala, Southern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude of center
11.605° or 11° 36′ 18″ north
Longitude of center
76.083° or 76° 4′ 59″ east
Population
817,000
Elevation
753 metres (2,470 feet)
Abbreviation
“WAY”
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Wayanad” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “واياناد”
- Assamese: “ৱায়নাড় জিলা”
- Asturian: “Wayanad”
- Basque: “Wayanad barrutia”
- Bengali: “বয়নাড় জেলা”
- Bhojpuri: “वायनाड जिला”
- Catalan: “Wayanad”
- Cebuano: “Wayanad”
- Chinese: “瓦亞納德縣”
- Dutch: “Wayanad”
- Egyptian Arabic: “واياناد”
- Esperanto: “distrikto Wayanad”
- Esperanto: “Distrikto Wayanad”
- French: “Wayanad”
- German: “Wayanad”
- Gujarati: “વયનાડ જિલ્લો”
- Gujarati: “વાયનાડ જિલ્લો”
- Hindi: “वयनाड जिला”
- Hindi: “वयनाडु जिला”
- Hindi: “वायनाड जिला”
- Indonesian: “Distrik Wayanad”
- Italian: “distretto di Wayanad”
- Italian: “Distretto di Wayanad”
- Japanese: “ワイナード県”
- Kannada: “ವಯನಾಡು ಜಿಲ್ಲೆ”
- Kannada: “ವಯನಾಡು”
- Kashmiri: “وایاناڈ ضِلہٕ”
- Magahi: “वयनाड् जिला”
- Malayalam: “വയനാട് ജില്ല”
- Malayalam: “വയനാട്”
- Marathi: “वायनाड जिल्हा”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Wayanad”
- Nepali: “वायनाड जिल्ला”
- Newari: “वयनाट जिल्ला”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wayanad”
- Norwegian: “Wayanad”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Districte de Wayanad”
- Panjabi: “ਵਾਇਨਾਡ ਜ਼ਿਲ੍ਹਾ”
- Persian: “بخش ویاناد”
- Russian: “Ваянад”
- Sanskrit: “वायनाडमण्डलम्”
- Santali: “ᱣᱟᱭᱱᱟᱰ ᱦᱚᱱᱚᱛ”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Wayanad”
- Spanish: “Wayanad”
- Swedish: “Wayanad”
- Tamil: “வயநாடு மாவட்டம்”
- Telugu: “వయనాడ్ జిల్లా”
- Urdu: “وایاناڑ ضلع”
- Urdu: “ویاناڈ ضلع”
- Vietnamese: “Wayanad”
- “वायनाड जिला”
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