📍 Places
Cities, capitals, monuments and battlefields: every place on YugMap, and what happened there through time.
295 places. Larger dots are historic sites; smaller ones are towns and battlefields named in events. Click a dot for its page.
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Kabul 7Kaithal 1Kakori 1Kalady 1📍 Kalibangan 1Kalinjar 1📍 Kalsi Rock EdictKalyani 1Kanchipuram 1Kandahar 2Kandy 2Kannauj 6Kapisa 1Karachi 5Kargil 1Karla 1Kashmir 1Kathmandu 8📍 Kathmandu Durbar SquareKathmandu valley 1Kaushambi 1Kayal 1Khadki 1📍 KhajurahoKhanwa 1Kharda 1Kheda 1Khyber Pass 1Kittur 1Kodungallur 1Kohima 1Kolkata 12Konark 1📍 Konark Sun TempleKotte 1Kozhikode 1Kurnool 1Kuru-Panchala region 1Kushinagar 1Kusumapura (Pataliputra) 1
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Machilipatnam 1Madurai 2Magadha 4📍 Mahabalipuram 1📍 Mahasthangarh📍 Makli NecropolisMalé 7📍 Malé Friday MosqueMandsaur 1Mangaluru 1Manyakheta 2Martand 1Mathura 1Meerut 1📍 Mehrgarh 3📍 Mihintale 1📍 Minaret of Jam📍 Mohenjo-daro 1Mount Abu 1Mount Everest 1Mullaitivu 1Multan 1Mumbai 8Murshidabad 1Muzaffarpur 1Mysore 1
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Sagala 1Salbai 1Sanchi 1📍 Sanchi StupaSanganakallu 1Santhal Pargana 1Santiniketan 1Sapta Sindhu 1📍 SarnathSatara 2Shakar Kheda 1Shimla 2Shravanabelagola 1📍 Sigiriya 1Sirhind 1📍 Sixty Dome Mosque, Bagerhat📍 Somapura Mahavihara, PaharpurSomnath 1Sriharikota 1Sriharikota (launch) 1Srinagar 3Sriperumbudur 1Srirangapatna 2Sugauli 1Surat 2Sutanuti 1Suvali near Surat 1📍 Swayambhunath
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🐫 Trade & travel
From the sixth century BCE, land and river routes criss-crossed the subcontinent and extended overland into Central Asia and overseas across the Arabian Sea. Spices, especially pepper, were in high demand in the Roman Empire, as were textiles and medicinal plants. Summarised from NCERT Class 12, Kings, Farmers and Towns ↗
Pataliputra
On the river routes
Ujjain
On the land routes (Ujjayini)
Mathura
A bustling centre of trade, culture and politics
Puhar
Near the coast, where sea routes began
Not on the map yet: no verified location on the site.
🐫 Multan → Delhi
Ibn Battuta’s caravan route (14th century) — his caravan was attacked on the way; trade routes had inns and an efficient postal system.
NCERT, Through the Eyes of Travellers ↗The route line is a sketch between the two places named in the source, not the exact road.