Nilgiri Mountains
The Nilgiri Mountains form a part of the Western Ghats in northwestern Tamil Nadu, southern Karnataka and eastern Kerala in South India. They are located at the trijunction of the three states and connect the Western Ghats to the Eastern Ghats.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hill with an elevation of 2,637 metres
- Description: mountain range in Tamil Nadu, South India
- Also known as: “Blue Mountains”, “Neilgherries”, “Neilgherry Hills”, “Neilgherry Mountains”, “Nilgiri Hills”, “Nīlgiri Hills”, “Nilgiris Hills”, and “The Nīlgiris”
Nilgiri Mountains
- Categories: mountain range and landform
- Location: Tamil Nadu, Southern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Nilgiri Mountains” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جبال نلغيري”
- Basque: “Nilgiri”
- Bengali: “নীলগিরি পর্বতমালা”
- Bhojpuri: “नीलगिरि”
- Bulgarian: “Нилгири”
- Catalan: “Muntanyes Nilgiri”
- Catalan: “Nilgiris”
- Chinese: “內埃拉吉里”
- Chinese: “内埃拉吉里”
- Chinese: “尼尔吉里丘陵”
- Czech: “Modré hory”
- Czech: “Nilgiri”
- Czech: “Nílgiri”
- Dutch: “Nilgiri mountains”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبال نلجيرى”
- Esperanto: “Nilgirio”
- Finnish: “Nilgirivuoret”
- French: “Nîlgîri”
- French: “Nilgiris”
- German: “Nilgiri Hills”
- German: “Nilgiri-Berge”
- German: “Nilgiri”
- German: “Nilgiriberge”
- Gujarati: “નીલગિરિ”
- Hebrew: “הרי נילגירי”
- Hindi: “नीलगिरि पर्वत”
- Indonesian: “Pegunungan Nilgiri”
- Italian: “Monti Nilgiri”
- Italian: “Niligiri”
- Japanese: “ニルギリ丘陵”
- Japanese: “ニルギリ山地”
- Kannada: “ನೀಲಗಿರಿ ಬೆಟ್ಟಗಳು”
- Ladin: “Crëps de Nilgiri”
- Lithuanian: “Nilgiris”
- Maithili: “नीलगिरि पर्वत”
- Malay: “Banjaran Nilgiri”
- Malayalam: “നീലഗിരി മലനിരകൾ”
- Marathi: “निलगिरी पर्वतरांग”
- Nepali: “नीलगिरि पर्वत”
- Panjabi: “ਨੀਲਗਿਰੀ ਦੀਆਂ ਪਹਾੜੀਆਂ”
- Polish: “Nilgiri (góry)”
- Polish: “Nilgiri”
- Portuguese: “Montes Nilgiri”
- Portuguese: “Montes Nilguiri”
- Russian: “Нилгири”
- Sanskrit: “नीलगिरिपर्वतः”
- Slovenian: “Nilgiri”
- Spanish: “Montañas Nilgiri”
- Spanish: “Nilgiri”
- Swedish: “Nilgiribergen”
- Tamil: “நீலகிரி”
- Tamil: “நீலமலை”
- Telugu: “నీలగిరి పర్వతాలు”
- Ukrainian: “Нілґірі (гори)”
- Ukrainian: “Нілґірі”
- Urdu: “نیلاگیری پہاڑ”
- Urdu: “نیلگیری پہاڑ”
- Venetian: “Monti Nilgiri”
- Western Panjabi: “نیلگری دیاں پہاڑیاں”
- “नीलगिरि”
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