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District of Rajasthan in India

Bikaner district

Bikaner district is a district of the state of Rajasthan in western India.

Bikaner district
Bikaner district · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Bikaner district is a district of the state of Rajasthan in western India. The historic city of Bikaner is the district headquarters. The district is located in Bikaner Division along with the three other districts of Churu, Sri Ganganagar and Hanumangarh.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bikaner district

6 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Junagarh Fort

    Junagarh Fort is a fort in the city of Bikaner, Rajasthan, India. The fort was originally called Chintamani and was renamed Junagarh or "Old Fort" in the early 20th century when the ruling family moved to Lalgarh Palace outside the fort limits.

    1.8 km · fort in Bikaner, Rajasthan, India · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Rajasthan University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences

    Rajasthan University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences is a state agricultural university located at Bikaner, Rajasthan, India. It was established in 2010 by the Rajasthan University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences Act, 2010 of the Government of Rajasthan, amended in 2013.

    3.4 km · state public university in Bikaner, Rajasthan, India · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Bhandasar Jain Temple

    Bhandasar Jain Temple or Bhanda Shah Jain temple, is a Śvetāmbara Jain temple located in Bikaner, Rajasthan. The temple is famous for wall painting and art work.

    1.3 km · śvetāmbara Jain temple in Rajasthan, India · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Sardar Patel Medical College

    Sarder Patel Medical College is a government medical college located in Bikaner, India. Established in 1959, it is one of six government-run medical colleges in the western state of Rajasthan, and the second to be established in the state.

    3.2 km · medical college in Bikaner, Rajasthan, India · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Dungar College

    Dungar College is a government-funded educational institution located in Bikaner, Rajasthan, India. Established on 25 September 1912, it is one of the oldest and largest colleges in the Bikaner division, offering undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral programs across the arts, science, and commerce streams.

    4 km · college in Rajasthan, India · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Veterinary College, Bikaner

    The College of Veterinary and Animal Science, Bikaner, formerly Rajasthan Veterinary College, also known as Veterinary College, Bikaner, is a constituent college of Rajasthan University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences.

    3.4 km · College of Rajasthan University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Bikaner district

Airports
Maharaja Agrasen (HSS), 271 km · Jaipur (JAI), 281 km
Stations
Bikaner Junction railway station, 1.7 km · Lalgarh Junction railway station, 3.3 km
  • Hisar → Bikaner district
    280 km · quickest by road, 5h 59m · ₹2,380–2,970
  • Jaipur → Bikaner district
    296 km · quickest by road, 6h 4m · ₹2,400–3,000
  • New Delhi → Bikaner district
    405 km · quickest by road, 7h 56m · ₹3,150–3,930
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bikaner district

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Bikaner district. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inVarious tour operators and travel agencies offer chauffeured car-taxi services; these are charged on a per km, per day basis.

From Wikivoyage: Bikaner, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-01.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Tirthan ValleyIN

    8 ways of moving, 29 sources

    566 km
  2. 02
    ChitkulIN

    7 ways of moving, 20 sources

    619 km
  3. 03
    KazaIN

    7 ways of moving, 18 sources

    655 km
  4. 04
    MunsiyariIN

    8 ways of moving, 25 sources

    712 km
  5. 05
    LehIN

    8 ways of moving, 25 sources

    796 km

If you know how people move in Bikaner district – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Bikaner district

Bikaner district is 1 km from Bikaner, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.