List of roads named after Mahatma Gandhi

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Mahatma Gandhi Road in Bangalore, India

Several roads across the world are named after the Indian anti-colonial nationalist and lawyer, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (a.k.a. Mahatma Gandhi), known for his nonviolent resistance to lead a successful campaign for India's independence from British Rule.

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In some places, the roads are also known by their abbreviated form "M.G. Road". In other countries, Mahatma Gandhi Road is known by different names, including Gandhistraat, Gandhiweg, and Gandhiplein . [1]

M.G. Road is one of the most frequently used road names in India,[ citation needed ] Agra having two of them. [2] Several other Indian cities have a road by this name. In 2010, attempts were made to rename Hillcroft Avenue in Houston, Texas to Mahatma Gandhi Avenue but the proponents were unable to secure signatures from 75% of the property owners. As a result, the group settled for renaming the areas around Hillcroft Avenue to Mahatma Gandhi district. [3] In Kolkata, Central Road has renamed Harrison Road in 1892 after Sir Henry Leland Harrison, then the chairman of Calcutta Corporation; [4] it has recently been renamed again to Mahatma Gandhi Road. In many cities in South India, Mahatma Gandhi Road is popularly known by other names. In Chennai, it is known as Nungambakkam High Road. In Coimbatore, Mahatma Gandhi Road is popularly known by Avarampalayam Road.

In India

State/UTCityName
Andhra Pradesh Guntur Mahatma Gandhi Inner Ring Road
Ongole Gandhi Road
Tirupathi Gandhi Road
Vijayawada Mahatma Gandhi Road
Assam Dispur Mahatma Gandhi Path
Uzan Bazaar, Guwahati Mahatma Gandhi Road
Bihar Patna Gandhi Maidan Marg
Mahatma Gandhi Nagar
Chhattisgarh Raigarh Mahatma Gandhi Road
Raipur Mahatma Gandhi Road
Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu Daman Mahatma Gandhi Marg
Delhi Adarsh NagarMahatma Gandhi Marg
Civil Lines, Delhi Mahatma Gandhi Marg
Lajpat Nagar Mahatma Gandhi Marg
Mukherjee Nagar Mahatma Gandhi Marg
Ramesh NagarMahatma Gandhi Marg
Timarpur Mahatma Gandhi Marg
Goa Panaji MG Road
Gujarat Ahmedabad-Vadodara Mahatma Gandhi Expressway (National Expressway 1)
Bardoli MG Road, Bardoli
Porbandar MG Road, Sudama Chowk
Vadodara MG Road, Karkadiya
MG Road, Yakputpur
Veraval MG Road, Veraval
Karnataka Bangalore Mahatma Gandhi Road
Mangalore Mahatma Gandhi Road
Mysore Gandhi Square
Mysore Mahatma Gandhi Road
Tumkur Mahatma Gandhi Road
Bellary Mahatma Gandhi Road
Kolar Mahatma Gandhi Road
Hassan Mahatma Gandhi Road
Kerala Kochi Mahatma Gandhi Road
Kottayam MG Road
Thiruvananthapuram MG Road
Thrissur Mahatma Gandhi Road
Madhya Pradesh Gwalior Gandhi Road
Indore Mahatma Gandhi Marg
Maharashtra Ahmednagar Mahatma Gandhi road
Akola Gandhi road
Mumbai MG Road, Fort
MG Road, Kandivali-West
MG Road, Pant Nagar, Ghatkopar East
MG Road, Borivali East
MG Road 2, Kandivali
MG Road 2, Goregaon
Nashik MG Road
Pune MG Road
Thane Mahatma Gandhi Road
Wardha MG Road
Meghalaya Shillong MG Road
Manipur Imphal MG Avenue
Puducherry Pondicherry Mahatma Gandhi Road
Sikkim Gangtok Mahatma Gandhi Marg
Tamil Nadu Chennai Mahatma Gandhi Road, more popularly known as Nungambakkam High Road.

Hosur in Tamilnadu

Coimbatore Mahatma Gandhi Road, more popularly known as Sarojini Naidu Road. [5]
Telangana Secunderabad Mahatma Gandhi Road
Uttar Pradesh Agra Mahatma Gandhi Road and Mahatma Gandhi Road II [2]
Allahabad Mahatma Gandhi Marg
Bahraich Mahatma Gandhi Road, Bahraich
Kanpur Mahatma Gandhi Road, Kanpur
Lucknow Mahatma Gandhi Road, Lucknow
West Bengal Kolkata Mahatma Gandhi Road, Kolkata [4] Mahatma Gandhi Road, Haridevpur
Durgapur Mahatma Gandhi Road, Durgapur

Outside India

CountryCityState/ProvinceName
Argentina Buenos Aires -Mahatma Gandhi [6]
Belgium Mechelen Antwerp Province Mahatma Gandhiwijk
Ghent East Flanders Mahatma Gandhistraat
Molenbeek-Saint-Jean Brussels Avenue Mahatma Gandhi/Mahatma Gandhilaan
Brazil Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro (state) Praça Mahatma Gandhi
Canada Winnipeg Manitoba Mahatma Gandhi Way
Croatia Zagreb -Ulica Mahatme Gandhija
France Courdimanche Île-de-France Avenue Gandhi
Paris Avenue du Mahatma Gandhi
Germany Hanover Lower Saxony Gandhi straße, [7]
Bremen Bremen (state) Gandhi Straße [7]
Darmstadt Hesse Mahatma-Gandhi-Straße
Düsseldorf North Rhine-Westphalia Mahatma-Gandhi-Straße
Bonn North Rhine-Westphalia Gandhi Straße [7]
Stuttgart Baden-Württemberg Mahatma-Gandhi-Straße
Hungary Dunaújváros Gandhi-Utca, [7]
Indonesia Medan North Sumatra Jalan Gandhi
Iran Tehran Tehran Province North Gandhi, Tehran, Iran [7]
Tehran Tehran Province Gandhi Street, Tehran, Iran [7]
Italy Milan Milan Province Via Mahatma Gandhi [8]
Jamaica Kingston Kingston-St. Andrew,
Surrey County
Gandhi Road
Jordan Amman -Mahatma Gandhi Street [9]

Kenya Nairobi Gandhi Avenue. Nairobi west. Near Langata road

Lebanon Beirut - Rue Mahatma Ghandi
Mauritius Goodlands Gandhi Road
Roche TerreS.I Gandhi Street
Beau Bassin-Rose Hill M. Gandhi Street
Beau Bassin-Rose Hill Mahatma Gandhi Lane
Quatre Bornes Gandhi Avenue
Belle RoseGandhi Street
Mexico Mexico City Calzada Mahatma Gandhi [10]
Mongolia Ulaanbaatar Mahatma Gandhi Street [11]
Morocco Casablanca Boulevard Ghandi
Netherlands Leiden Gandhiburg [7]
Utrecht Gandhidreef [7]
Delft Gandhilaan [7]
Leiden Gandhistraat [7]
Purmerend Mahatma Gandhistraat [7]
Rotterdam Mahatma Gandhistraat [7]
Culemborg Gandhi [7]
Zaandam Gandhihof [7]
Zeist Gandhilaan [7]
Stadskanaal Gandhiplein [7]
Maastricht Gandhiplein [7]
Zetten Gandhistraat [7]
Haarlem Gandhistraat [7]
Hengelo(O)Gandhistraat [7]
Hoofddorp Gandhistraat [7]
Middelburg Gandhistraat [7]
Epe Gandhiweg [7]
Gouda Gandhiweg [7]
Amsterdam M. Gandhilaan [7]
Groningen M. K. Gandhiplein [7]
Heerhugowaard Mahatma Gandhihof [7]
Eindhoven Mahatma Gandhilaan [7]
Zoetermeer Mahatma Gandhisingel [7]
's-GravenhageMahatma Gandhistraat [7]
Arnhem Mahatma Gandhiweg [7]
Assen Mahatma Gandhiweg [7]
Muntendam Mahatma Gandhiweg [7]
Philippines Manila Mahatma Gandhi Street, Paco [12]
Poland Warsaw Masovian Mahatmy Gandhiego [13]
Łódź Łódź Mohandasa Gandhiego [14]
Serbia Blokovi Gandijeva [15]
South Africa Durban KwaZulu-Natal Mahatma Gandhi Road, Durban [16]
Johannesburg Gauteng Gandhi Square [7]
Spain Barcelona Catalonia Jardins de Gandhi [17] [18]
Sri Lanka Jaffna Northern Province Mahathma Gandhi Road
Trinidad and Tobago Debe Penal–Debe,
Victoria County
Gandhi Village Road
San Fernando San Fernando,
Victoria County
Gandhi Street
Saint Helena Tunapuna–Piarco,
Caroni County
Gandhi Street
Turkey Ankara Mahatma Gandhi Caddesi 76 [7]
Ankara Mahatma Gandhi Caddesi [7]
United Kingdom London Gandhi Close
Kingston upon Hull Gandhi Way
United States Boulder, Colorado Colorado Gandhi Drive [7]
Davie, Florida Florida Gandhi Street [19]
Crawfordsville, Indiana Indiana Gandhi Street [7]
Durham, North Carolina North Carolina Gandhi Drive [7]
Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina North Carolina Gandhi Lane [7]
Houston Texas Mahatma Gandhi District, Houston
Uruguay Montevideo Montevideo Department Rambla Mahatma Gandhi

In Bangladesh

Mahamta Gandhi Road or MG Road In Jashore

See also

Notes

  1. Kolkata Wheels 2011, p. 1.
  2. 1 2 IANS 2011, p. 1.
  3. Moreno 2010, p. 1.
  4. 1 2 Ganguly & Bhattacharya 2010, p. 1.
  5. "Building violating rules demolished in city", The Hindu , Chennai, India, 29 April 2011, archived from the original on 12 July 2011, retrieved 24 July 2011
  6. Location on Google Maps of Mahatma Gandhi street in Buenos Aires (between Antezana, Ferrari) (accessed 15 December 2020)
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 Kort 2011, p. 1.
  8. "Google Maps".
  9. "President inaugurates Mahatma Gandhi Street in Amman - Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 2017-03-20.
  10. "Google Maps".
  11. "Mahatma Gandhi St". Google Maps. Retrieved 2018-10-08.
  12. "Hindus in Philippines", AgamaHindu.com
  13. "MG Road in Warsaw" . Retrieved 9 December 2020.
  14. "MG Road in Łódź".
  15. "Blueprint for a revolution". Financial Times. 18 March 2011. Retrieved 2017-03-20.
  16. Clark 2005, p. 1.
  17. "Jardins de Gandhi, Spain". Google Maps. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
  18. VilaWeb. "barcelona-pays-homage-to-legendary-world-figures-through-its-streets-and-squares" (PDF). Retrieved 4 March 2015.
  19. "In these turbulent times, a street might honor Mohandas Gandhi". 25 August 2021.

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