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Aurangabad

India

Watercolour of Aurangabad, India. In the Deccan plateau, famous for the Bibi Ka Maqbara and Daulatabad Fort, with Bibi Ka Maqbara and Daulatabad Fort.
AI-generated artistic rendering. Painted from written research on the city's setting, architecture and materials — not from a photograph.
What guided this image
Landmarks
Bibi Ka Maqbara; Daulatabad Fort; Aurangabad Caves; Panchakki; lush Deccan flora; Yadava
Viewpoint
Favor an elevated viewpoint overlooking the gardens toward Bibi Ka Maqbara, showing garden water fountains and cypress trees in the foreground, the mausoleum and its four corner minarets in the middle-ground, and the rugged, flat-topped basalt hills and Daulatabad Fort rising in the background.
Palette
Green should be the predominant color, especially in the charbagh garden lawns, cypress trees, neem canopies, and the monsoon-green scrub of the basalt hills.
Guarded against
Avoid confusing Aurangabad with Agra (Bibi Ka Maqbara has distinctive Deccan proportions, octagonal minarets, and is framed by the rugged basalt hills of Maharashtra).
Population1,175,116Wikidata: 1,371,330
Coordinates19.88°N, 75.34°E
Elevation568 m
Area219,000,000 km²
Time zoneAsia/KolkataUTC+5:30
Solar noon12:29clock runs 0.5 h ahead of the sun

Through the Earth

Dig straight through the Earth from Aurangabad and you surface in open ocean, nearest to Hanga Roa, Chile — 943 km from the exact antipodal point.

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Twinned cities

Wikidata records no twinned cities for Aurangabad inside this atlas.

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