Tamil Nadu
Nilgiris District
Udhagamandalam

Doddabetta

Doddabetta is the highest mountain in the at 2,637 metres. There is a reserved forest area around the peak. It is 9 km from , on the Ooty-Kotagiri Road in the Nilgiris District of , .
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  • Type: Peak with an elevation of 2,636 metres
  • Description: Highest mountain in the Nilgiri Hills, at 2637 metres (8650 feet)
  • Also known as: “Dodabetta Peak”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Ketti railway station and Lovedale railway station.

Railway station
Photo: AHEMSLTD, CC BY 2.5.
is an NSG–6 category Indian railway station in Salem railway division of Southern Railway zone. It is a railway station of the Nilgiri Mountain Railway in , a hill station town, in the of .

Railway station
Photo: Savmasca, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is an NSG–6 category Indian railway station in Salem railway division of Southern Railway zone. It is a railway station serving Lovedale, a town located south of Udhagamandalam, in the of .

School
is a co-educational independent boarding school in the hill station known as , in , southern . The school follows the British school system and offers study for IGCSEs, AS and A levels.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Manthada and Ooty.

Village
Photo: Tagooty, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a village.

Photo: Ashwin Kumar, CC BY-SA 2.0.
, short for Ootacamund and officially Udhagamandalam, is a popular hill resort in the state of in . The name Udhagamandalam is derived from the Toda word "othakal-mund" which means "house in mountains".

Photo: Sayowais, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, is a small town located in the of in between and , at distances 5 km and 12 km respectively. It houses the Cordite Factory, one of the 40 Indian Ordnance Factories, and one of the oldest, established in 1903.

Doddabetta

Latitude
11.40069° or 11° 24′ 3″ north
Longitude
76.73568° or 76° 44′ 8″ east
Elevation
2,636 metres (8,648 feet)
Open location code
7J3RCP2P+77
Open­Street­Map ID
node 660459135
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
1272475
Wiki­data ID
Q336749
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Catalan to Western Panjabi—“Doddabetta” goes by many names.
  • Catalan: “Dodabetta”
  • Cebuano: “Doda Betta”
  • Czech: “Doddabetta”
  • Dutch: “Dodabetta”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل دودابيتا”
  • German: “Dodabetta”
  • German: “Doddabetta”
  • Gujarati: “ડોડાબેટ્ટા”
  • Hindi: “डोडाबेट्टा”
  • Hindi: “दोड्डबेट्ट”
  • Italian: “Doddabetta”
  • Japanese: “ドッダベッタ・ピーク”
  • Japanese: “ドッダベッタ”
  • Kannada: “ದೊಡ್ಡ ಬೆಟ್ಟ”
  • Kannada: “ದೊಡ್ಡಬೆಟ್ಟ”
  • Ladin: “Doddabetta”
  • Malayalam: “ദൊഡ്ഡബെട്ട”
  • Mingrelian: “დოდდაბეტა”
  • Polish: “Dodabetta”
  • Portuguese: “Doddabetta”
  • Russian: “Доддабетта”
  • Spanish: “Doddabetta”
  • Swedish: “Doda Betta”
  • Tamil: “தொட்டபெட்டா”
  • Telugu: “దొడ్డబెట్ట శిఖరం”
  • Ukrainian: “Доддабетта”
  • Venetian: “Doddabetta”
  • Western Panjabi: “پھانگپوی”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Doddabetta”. Photo: Gauri Wur Sem, CC BY-SA 3.0.