Look up Benares or Varanasi in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Varanasi, also called Banaras, is a city in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

Banaras may also refer to:

Places

• Banaras State, former primcely state of India
• Banaras Hindu University, university in Varanasi, India
• Banaras Colony, a neighbourhood of SITE Town, Karachi, Pakistan

Films and television

• Banaras (2006 film), an Indian Hindi-language film
• Banaras (2009 film), an Indian Malayalam-language film
• Banaras (2022 film), an Indian Kannada-language film
• Banaras (TV series), an Indian television series

See also

• All pages with titles containing Benares
• Banares (disambiguation)
• Banarasi Babu (disambiguation)
• Kashi (disambiguation)
• Bañares, a municipality of La Rioja, Spain

This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Banaras.
If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.