West Bengal
Darjeeling
Darjeeling Pulbazar

Darjeeling

Darjeeling is a hill station in the northern region of . It used to be a lovely Victorian town built among the Himalayan foothills, the remnants of which are still visible around the Chowrasta.
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  • Type: City with 119,000 residents
  • Description: City in West Bengal, India
  • Also known as: “Darjeeling (India)”, “Dorji Ling”, “Rdorje gling”, and “Wangdu Dorji Ling”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park and Himalayan Mountaineering Institute.

Zoo
Photo: Senorita786, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a 67.56-acre zoo in the town of Darjeeling in the state of . The zoo was opened in 1958, and an average elevation of 7,000 feet, is the largest high altitude zoo in India.

Museum
Photo: Pinakpani, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The was established in Darjeeling, on 4 November 1954 to encourage mountaineering as an organized sport in India.

Scenic viewpoint
Photo: Donvikro, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a spiral railway created to lower the gradient of ascent of the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway in of West Bengal, India.

Darjeeling

Latitude
27.0378° or 27° 2′ 16″ north
Longitude
88.2632° or 88° 15′ 47″ east
Population
119,000
Elevation
2,127 metres (6,978 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IN DAI
Open location code
7MVC27Q7+47
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3411073296
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1273467
Wiki­data ID
Q169997
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Darjeeling” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “دارجلينغ”
  • Arabic: “دارجيلنغ”
  • Armenian: “Դարջիլինգ”
  • Assamese: “দাৰ্জিলিং”
  • Asturian: “Darjeeling”
  • Basque: “Darjeeling”
  • Belarusian: “Дарджылінг”
  • Bengali: “দার্জিলিং”
  • Bhojpuri: “दार्जीलिंग”
  • Bishnupriya: “দার্জিলিং”
  • Bulgarian: “Дарджилинг”
  • Catalan: “Darjeeling”
  • Cebuano: “Dārjiling”
  • Central Bikol: “Darjeeling”
  • Chinese: “Darjeeling”
  • Chinese: “大吉岭”
  • Chinese: “大吉嶺”
  • Croatian: “Darjeeling”
  • Czech: “Dárdžiling”
  • Czech: “Darjeeling (India)”
  • Czech: “Darjeeling”
  • Danish: “Darjeeling”
  • Dotyali: “दार्जिलिङ”
  • Dutch: “Darjeeling”
  • Esperanto: “Darĝiling”
  • Esperanto: “Darjeeling”
  • Estonian: “Darjeeling”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Darjiling”
  • Finnish: “Darjeeling”
  • French: “Darjeeling”
  • Galician: “Darjeeling”
  • Georgian: “დარჯილინგი”
  • German: “Darjeeling (India)”
  • German: “Darjeeling”
  • German: “Darjiling”
  • Greek: “Ντάρτζιλινγκ”
  • Gujarati: “દાર્જિલિંગ”
  • Haitian: “Darjeeling”
  • Hebrew: “דארג’ילינג”
  • Hebrew: “דרג’ילינג”
  • Hebrew: “דרגילינג”
  • Hindi: “डार्जिलिंग”
  • Hindi: “दार्जिलिंग”
  • Hungarian: “Dardzsiling”
  • Iloko: “Darjeeling”
  • Indonesian: “Darjeeling”
  • Irish: “Darjeeling”
  • Italian: “Darjeeling”
  • Japanese: “ダージリン”
  • Kannada: “ಡಾರ್ಜಿಲಿಂಗ್‌”
  • Kannada: “ಡಾರ್ಜಿಲಿಂಗ್”
  • Kashmiri: “دار جیلنگ”
  • Kashmiri: “دارجِلِنٛگ”
  • Korean: “다르질링”
  • Korean: “다즐링”
  • Korean: “다질링”
  • Ladin: “Darjeeling”
  • Latvian: “Dardžilinga”
  • Latvian: “Dārdžilinga”
  • Latvian: “Darjeeling”
  • Lithuanian: “Dardžilingas”
  • Macedonian: “Дарџилинг”
  • Maithili: “दार्जिलिङ”
  • Maithili: “दार्जिलिङ्ग”
  • Malagasy: “Darjeeling”
  • Malay: “Darjeeling”
  • Malay: “Darjiling”
  • Malayalam: “Darjeeling”
  • Malayalam: “ഡാർജിലിംഗ്”
  • Malayalam: “ഡാർജിലിങ്”
  • Marathi: “दार्जिलिंग”
  • Marathi: “दार्जीलिंग”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Darjeeling”
  • Mingrelian: “დარჯილინგი”
  • Nepali: “दार्जिलिङ”
  • Nepali: “दार्जिलिङ्ग”
  • Nepali: “दार्जीलिङ”
  • Nepali: “दार्जीलिङ्ग”
  • Newari: “दार्जिलिङ”
  • Newari: “दार्जीलीङ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Darjeeling”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Darjiling”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Darjeeling”
  • Norwegian: “Darjeeling”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Darjeeling (vila)”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Darjeeling”
  • Oriya: “ଦାର୍ଜିଲିଂ”
  • Ossetian: “Дарджилинг (сахар)”
  • Ossetian: “Дарджилинг”
  • Pampanga: “Darjeeling”
  • Panjabi: “ਦਾਰਜੀਲਿੰਗ”
  • Persian: “دارجلینگ”
  • Polish: “Dardżyling”
  • Polish: “Dorjeeling”
  • Portuguese: “Darjeeling”
  • Romanian: “Darjeeling”
  • Russian: “Дарджилинг (город)”
  • Russian: “Дарджилинг”
  • Sanskrit: “दार्जिलिङ”
  • Sanskrit: “दार्जिलिङ्ग”
  • Santali: “ᱫᱟᱨᱡᱤᱞᱤᱝ”
  • Serbian: “Дарџилинг”
  • Slovenian: “Dardžiling”
  • Slovenian: “Darjeeling”
  • Somali: “Darjeeling”
  • Spanish: “Darjeeling”
  • Spanish: “Darjiling”
  • Spanish: “Dārjiling”
  • Swedish: “Darjeeling”
  • Swedish: “Darjiling”
  • Swedish: “Dārjiling”
  • Tajik: “Дарҷилинг”
  • Tamil: “டார்ஜிலிங்”
  • Tamil: “டார்ஜீலிங்”
  • Telugu: “డార్జిలింగ్”
  • Thai: “ดาร์จีลิง”
  • Tulu: “ಡಾರ್ಜಲಿಂಗ್”
  • Turkish: “Darjeeling”
  • Ukrainian: “Дарджилінг”
  • Ukrainian: “Дарджилінґ”
  • Ukrainian: “Дарджілінг”
  • Ukrainian: “Дарджілінґ”
  • Urdu: “دار جیلنگ”
  • Urdu: “دارجلنگ”
  • Venetian: “Darjeeling”
  • Vietnamese: “Darjeeling”
  • Vietnamese: “Darjiling”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Darjeeling”
  • Welsh: “Darjeeling”
  • Western Panjabi: “دارجلنگ”
  • Wu Chinese: “大吉岭”
  • Yue Chinese: “大吉嶺”
  • “दार्जिलिंग”

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