Uttar Pradesh · Updated 2026-10-20
In a town of Thai, Chinese, Japanese and Burmese temples, a guest house's first job is to store each pilgrim's number correctly.
Kushinagar is where the Buddha attained Mahaparinirvana, and its pilgrims come from across Asia as well as India. A guest house's WhatsApp list here holds numbers from half a dozen countries, written down in as many formats.
For Kushinagar's guest houses, tour and taxi operators, banana-fibre craft groups and shops: how to store pilgrims' Thai, Burmese, Vietnamese and Indian numbers so every message arrives, what a booking confirmation costs to each country, which templates to write in Hindi and English, and InfiQ's rupee rates.
See it work
The register at a Kushinagar guest house fills with numbers from Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam and India, each written the way its owner dials at home. Pick one to see what WhatsApp needs instead.
The second sample is the one that causes trouble. A Thai pilgrim writes their mobile number as they would at home, with a 0 and no country code, and the register cannot tell it from an Indian landline. Ask for the number with its country code at the desk, or have the pilgrim message your number first, so WhatsApp hands you the full number itself.
Clean numbers matter twice in Kushinagar. A booking confirmation that never arrives means a group waiting at Gorakhpur station with no pickup, and Meta charges each message by the recipient's country code, so a number stored as Indian when it is Vietnamese is billed and delivered wrongly.
E.164 is the one format phone APIs agree on: a +, the country code, then the number — no spaces, no leading 0.
Any format works: spaces, dashes, brackets, a 0 or 00 prefix.
Market brief
From the district administration, UP Tourism, the Airports Authority of India and Uttar Pradesh's ODOP portal.
Kushinagar, formerly Kushinara, is where the Buddha attained Mahaparinirvana; the town, once Kasia Bazar, is an international Buddhist pilgrimage destination.[1]
The district lies in Gorakhpur division, about 50 km east of Gorakhpur on NH 28, with Bihar about 20 km east of the town. It covers 2,873.5 sq km and had 3,560,830 people at the 2011 census.[1]
The Mahaparinirvana Temple houses a large reclining Buddha unearthed in 1876; the monuments include the Ramabhar Stupa and Mathakuar Kot, alongside a Thai, a Chinese and a Japanese temple and the Buddha Museum.[2]
The district's own pages also show a Burmese temple and a Vietnamese Chinese-style temple, and describe a month-long fair at Buddha Purnima.[1]
Kushinagar has no railway station: visitors use Deoria, 35 km away, or Gorakhpur, 53 km away. UP Tourism gives October to April as the season.[2]
The Airports Authority of India lists Kushinagar International Airport with a 3,200 m runway and a terminal designed for 300 peak-hour passengers.[3]
Banana fibre products are the district's One District One Product: producer groups turn the pseudostems left after harvest into bags, baskets, mats, ropes and decorative pieces.[4]
IBEF names Kushinagar a banana cluster under Operation Greens and its ODOP region for bananas under the PMFME scheme.[5]
Four kinds of business around the temples and the fields.
Rooms near the Mahaparinirvana Temple fill with groups from Buddhist countries and from across India, especially around Buddha Purnima.[1],[2]
With no railway station in town, pilgrims arrive by road from Gorakhpur or Deoria, or by air.[2],[3]
Producer groups make bags, mats and baskets from fibre, and units turn local bananas into chips, flour and dried fruit.[4]
Wheat, paddy and sugarcane are the district's main crops, and Bhojpuri is widely spoken in its villages.[1]
Meta approves each template once per language. Indian guests read Hindi; most foreign groups manage with English.
Meta's template list also includes Thai (th), Japanese (ja), Vietnamese (vi) and Simplified Chinese (zh_CN), useful for a guest house that writes regularly to returning pilgrims in their own language. Burmese and Bhojpuri are not on the list; replies inside the 24-hour window can still be in any language your staff write. InfiQ's own support team works in English and Hindi.
| Language | Meta code | Use it for |
|---|---|---|
| Hindi | hi | Indian pilgrims, drivers and local customers |
| English | en | Foreign pilgrim groups and their tour leaders |
| English (India) | en_IN | Indian corporate and school groups |
Prices in ₹, with USD and EUR
Plans from ₹999 a month, plus each delivered message. To an Indian +91 number: ₹0.19 for a booking confirmation or pickup note, ₹0.145 for a reply, ₹0.94 for an offer and ₹0.14 for a login code.
Snapshot rates · as of 20 Oct 2026, 00:02 UTC
Lite
₹999 / month≈ $10.51 USD
₹833 / month, billed yearly≈ $8.76 USD
Growth
₹2,999 / month≈ $31.55 USD
₹2,499 / month, billed yearly≈ $26.29 USD
Enterprise
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Per message to Kushinagar · India
| Category | ₹ INR | USD |
|---|---|---|
| Marketing | ₹0.9435 | $0.0099 |
| Utility | ₹0.1941 | $0.0020 |
| Authentication | ₹0.1402 | $0.0015 |
| Service | ₹0.1450 | $0.0015 |
| Market | Marketing | Utility | Authentication | Service |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Argentina | $0.0572₹5.4352 | $0.0241₹2.2874 | $0.0241₹2.2874 | $0.0241₹2.2874 |
| Bangladesh | $0.0678₹6.4397 | $0.0034₹0.3254 | $0.0034₹0.3254 | $0.0034₹0.3254 |
| Brazil | $0.0578₹5.4970 | $0.0063₹0.5981 | $0.0063₹0.5981 | $0.0063₹0.5981 |
| Chile | $0.0822₹7.8162 | $0.0185₹1.7585 | $0.0185₹1.7585 | $0.0185₹1.7585 |
| Colombia | $0.0116₹1.0993 | $0.0007₹0.0706 | $0.0007₹0.0706 | $0.0007₹0.0706 |
| Egypt | $0.0596₹5.6629 | $0.0033₹0.3167 | $0.0033₹0.3167 | $0.0033₹0.3167 |
| France | $0.0795₹7.5588 | $0.0278₹2.6393 | $0.0278₹2.6393 | $0.0278₹2.6393 |
| Germany | $0.126₹12.0088 | $0.0509₹4.8386 | $0.0509₹4.8386 | $0.0509₹4.8386 |
| Hong Kong | $0.0678₹6.4397 | $0.0241₹2.2867 | $0.0241₹2.2867 | $0.0241₹2.2867 |
| Hungary | $0.0795₹7.5596 | $0.0323₹3.0700 | $0.0323₹3.0700 | $0.0323₹3.0700 |
| India | $0.0099₹0.9435 | $0.0020₹0.1941 | $0.0015₹0.1402 | $0.0015₹0.1450 |
| Indonesia | $0.0380₹3.6133 | $0.0231₹2.1979 | $0.0231₹2.1979 | $0.0231₹2.1979 |
| Iraq | $0.0316₹2.9992 | $0.0073₹0.6943 | $0.0073₹0.6943 | $0.0073₹0.6943 |
| Israel | $0.0327₹3.1045 | $0.0049₹0.4662 | $0.0049₹0.4662 | $0.0049₹0.4662 |
| Italy | $0.0735₹6.9847 | $0.0277₹2.6369 | $0.0277₹2.6369 | $0.0277₹2.6369 |
| Kazakhstan | $0.0559₹5.3098 | $0.0166₹1.5824 | $0.0166₹1.5824 | $0.0166₹1.5824 |
| Kuwait | $0.0733₹6.9671 | $0.0407₹3.8671 | $0.0407₹3.8671 | $0.0407₹3.8671 |
| Malaysia | $0.0796₹7.5644 | $0.0130₹1.2314 | $0.0130₹1.2314 | $0.0130₹1.2314 |
| Mexico | $0.0367₹3.4877 | $0.0079₹0.7471 | $0.0079₹0.7471 | $0.0079₹0.7471 |
| Morocco | $0.0383₹3.6425 | $0.0213₹2.0218 | $0.0213₹2.0218 | $0.0213₹2.0218 |
| Netherlands | $0.148₹14.0494 | $0.0463₹4.3987 | $0.0463₹4.3987 | $0.0463₹4.3987 |
| Nepal | $0.0678₹6.4397 | $0.0031₹0.2990 | $0.0031₹0.2990 | $0.0031₹0.2990 |
| Nigeria | $0.0478₹4.5421 | $0.0062₹0.5898 | $0.0062₹0.5898 | $0.0062₹0.5898 |
| Oman | $0.0316₹2.9992 | $0.0228₹2.1709 | $0.0228₹2.1709 | $0.0228₹2.1709 |
| Pakistan | $0.0438₹4.1620 | $0.0139₹1.3200 | $0.0139₹1.3200 | $0.0139₹1.3200 |
| Peru | $0.0651₹6.1843 | $0.0278₹2.6392 | $0.0278₹2.6392 | $0.0278₹2.6392 |
| Poland | $0.0338₹3.2105 | $0.0113₹1.0702 | $0.0113₹1.0702 | $0.0113₹1.0702 |
| Qatar | $0.0316₹2.9992 | $0.0111₹1.0547 | $0.0111₹1.0547 | $0.0111₹1.0547 |
| Romania | $0.0795₹7.5596 | $0.0268₹2.5436 | $0.0268₹2.5436 | $0.0268₹2.5436 |
| Russia | $0.0742₹7.0520 | $0.0370₹3.5173 | $0.0370₹3.5173 | $0.0370₹3.5173 |
| Saudi Arabia | $0.0532₹5.0537 | $0.0099₹0.9401 | $0.0099₹0.9401 | $0.0099₹0.9401 |
| Singapore | $0.0678₹6.4397 | $0.0148₹1.4072 | $0.0148₹1.4072 | $0.0148₹1.4072 |
| South Africa | $0.0351₹3.3385 | $0.0088₹0.8369 | $0.0088₹0.8369 | $0.0088₹0.8369 |
| Spain | $0.0654₹6.2161 | $0.0185₹1.7578 | $0.0185₹1.7578 | $0.0185₹1.7578 |
| Sri Lanka | $0.0678₹6.4397 | $0.0019₹0.1759 | $0.0019₹0.1759 | $0.0019₹0.1759 |
| Turkey | $0.0101₹0.9587 | $0.0008₹0.0792 | $0.0008₹0.0792 | $0.0008₹0.0792 |
| Ukraine | $0.0795₹7.5596 | $0.0275₹2.6138 | $0.0275₹2.6138 | $0.0275₹2.6138 |
| United Arab Emirates | $0.0532₹5.0537 | $0.0145₹1.3811 | $0.0145₹1.3811 | $0.0145₹1.3811 |
| United Kingdom | $0.0587₹5.5795 | $0.0204₹1.9346 | $0.0204₹1.9346 | $0.0204₹1.9346 |
| North America | $0.0231₹2.1976 | $0.0031₹0.2989 | $0.0031₹0.2989 | $0.0031₹0.2989 |
| Rest of Africa | $0.0208₹1.9796 | $0.0037₹0.3516 | $0.0037₹0.3516 | $0.0037₹0.3516 |
| Rest of Asia Pacific | $0.0779₹7.4057 | $0.0105₹0.9938 | $0.0105₹0.9938 | $0.0105₹0.9938 |
| Rest of Central & Eastern Europe | $0.0795₹7.5596 | $0.0196₹1.8595 | $0.0196₹1.8595 | $0.0196₹1.8595 |
| Rest of Latin America | $0.0684₹6.5048 | $0.0105₹0.9934 | $0.0105₹0.9934 | $0.0105₹0.9934 |
| Rest of Middle East | $0.0363₹3.4490 | $0.0084₹0.7998 | $0.0084₹0.7998 | $0.0084₹0.7998 |
| Rest of Western Europe | $0.0548₹5.2054 | $0.0158₹1.5019 | $0.0158₹1.5019 | $0.0158₹1.5019 |
| Other | $0.0559₹5.3098 | $0.0071₹0.6769 | $0.0071₹0.6769 | $0.0071₹0.6769 |
Plan prices are monthly, in rupees, excluding GST; yearly billing is two months free. Messages are charged per delivered message on top of the plan, at the rate for the recipient’s country. Full details: InfiQ pricing. A confirmation to a pilgrim's Thai, Vietnamese or Japanese number is billed on the Rest of Asia Pacific line of Meta's rate card, not at the India rate; InfiQ publishes every market's rate in rupees on the pricing page and invoices in rupees with GST.
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A clean register, a shared desk and known costs.
Every country's per-message rate is published in rupees before you send, so a confirmation to a group from Bangkok or Hanoi is priced in advance.
The front desk, the tour desk and the owner answer one number together through the Buddha Purnima rush, with transfers and private notes.
Keep booking, pickup and directions templates in Hindi and English, and add a Thai or Japanese version for returning groups.
Record each guest's opt-in and its source, so only pilgrims who agreed hear about next season's rooms.
Nearby
City pages for neighbouring markets, nearest first.
Each page looks at its own city's trades. The India guide covers DPDP consent, DLT and the other rules for the whole country.
Facts on this page were checked against these sources on the dates shown. Page updated 2026-10-20.
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