Varanasi
Varanasi, once known as Benares or Banaras and Kashi, is a city at the banks of the Ganges River in Uttar Pradesh, India. Being the most sacred city in Hinduism and Jainism, and important in the history of Buddhism, Varanasi is India's most important pilgrimage destination.Photo: Sfu, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Notable Places in the Area
Varanasi City railway station
Varanasi City railway station is one of the railway stations in Varanasi.Varanasi Junction Railway Station
Photo: McKay Savage, CC BY 2.0.
Varanasi Junction railway station, also known as Varanasi Cantt railway station, is the main railway station serving the city of Varanasi.
Kashi Vishwanath Temple
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Kashi Vishwanath Temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to Shiva.
Localities in the Area
Sigra
Sigra is an urban locality in the city of Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.Varanasi
- Type: City with 3,100,000 residents
- Description: city on the banks of the Ganges in the Uttar Pradesh state of India
- Categories: big city, million city, holy city and locality
- Location: Varanasi, Purvanchal, Uttar Pradesh, Plains, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
25.3356° or 25° 20' 8" northLongitude
83.0076° or 83° 0' 28" eastPopulation
3,100,000Elevation
86 metres (282 feet)IATA airport code
VNSUnited Nations Location Code
IN VNSOpen Location Code
7MQ582P5+73OpenStreetMap ID
node 287687798OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1253405Wikidata ID
Q79980Varanasi Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Benares
- Afrikaans: Varanasi
- Afrikaans: Waranasi
- Albanian: Varanasi
- Arabic: Varanasi
- Arabic: فاراناسي
- Arabic: وارانسي
- Armenian: Վարանասի
- Asturian: Benarés
- Awadhi: काशी
- 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: 瓦拉那西
- Chinese: 瓦臘納西
- Chinese: 瓦蘭希
- Chinese: 維華拿斯
- Chinese: 貝拿勒斯
- 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
- English (Historic): Benares
- English: Banaras
- English: Benaras
- English: Benares
- English: Kashi
- Esperanto: Benares
- Esperanto: Varanasio
- Estonian: Varanasi
- Fiji Hindi: Varanasi
- Finnish: Benares
- Finnish: Varanasi
- French: Benares
- French: Bénarès
- French: Kâshî
- French: Varanaci
- French: Varanasi
- French: Vârânasî
- French: Vârânaçî
- French: Vārānasī
- 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: Μπενάρες
- Greek: Μπεναρές
- Gujarati: કાશી
- Gujarati: બનારસ
- Gujarati: વારાણસી
- 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: カーシー
- Japanese: バナーラス
- Japanese: バラナシ
- Japanese: ベナレス
- Japanese: ワラナシ
- Japanese: ワーラーナシー
- Japanese: ヴァラナシ
- Japanese: ヴァーラーナシー
- Japanese: ヴァーラーナスィー
- Kannada: ಕಾಶಿ
- Kannada: ಬನಾರಸ
- Kannada: ಬನಾರಸ್
- Kannada: ವಾರಣಾಸಿ
- Kannada: ವಾರಾಣಸಿ
- Kashmiri: بنارس
- Kinaray-A: Bārāṇasī
- Kirghiz: Bapaнаcи
- 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
- Malagasy: Varanasi
- Malay: Varanasi, Cantonment
- Malay: Varanasi
- Malayalam: Varanasi
- Malayalam: കാശി
- Malayalam: ബനാറസ്
- Malayalam: വരാണസി
- Malayalam: വാരണാസി
- Malayalam: വാരാണസി
- Marathi: काशी
- Marathi: वाराणसी
- Min Nan Chinese: Benares
- Mingrelian: ვარანასი
- Nepali: काशी
- Nepali: बनारस
- Nepali: वाराणसी
- Nepali: वाराणासी
- Newari: वाराणसी
- Newari: वाराणासी
- Norwegian: Varanasi
- Norwegian Bokmål: Banaras
- Norwegian Bokmål: Benares
- Norwegian Bokmål: Varanasi
- Norwegian Bokmål: Vârânasî
- Norwegian Nynorsk: 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: ᱵᱟᱨᱟᱬᱚᱥᱤ
- Santali: ᱵᱟᱱᱟᱨᱟᱥ
- 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: Kasi
- Spanish: Kaśi
- Spanish: Kaśī
- Spanish: Kāshi
- Spanish: Kāshī
- 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
- Tagalog: Varanasi
- Tajik: Банорас
- Tamil: காசி
- Tamil: வாரணாசி
- Telugu: కాశి/వారణాసి
- Telugu: కాశి
- Telugu: కాశీ
- Telugu: బెనారస్
- Telugu: వారణాశి
- Telugu: వారణాసి
- Telugu: వారాణసి
- Thai: พาราณสี
- Thai: พาราณาสี
- Thai: เมืองพาราณสี
- Thai: แคว้นพาราณสี
- 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
- Banares
- Banāras
- Kāsi
- Varanassi
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