Dehradun
Dehradun district is a district in Garhwal division which is a part of Uttarakhand state in northern India. The district headquarters is Dehradun, which has also served as the interim capital of Uttarakhand since its founding in 2000.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: district of India with 1,700,000 residents
- Description: district of Uttarakhand, India
- Also known as: “Dehradun district”
- Neighbors: Southern Himachal Pradesh
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dehradun railway station and The Doon School.
Dehradun railway station
Railway station
Photo: Superfast1111, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Dehradun Terminal railway station is a railway station in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India, on the Northern line of the Northern Railway network. It is owned by Indian Railways.
The Doon School
School
Photo: RickTyers, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Doon School is a selective all-boys private boarding school in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India, which was established in 1935. It was envisioned by Satish Ranjan Das, a lawyer from Calcutta, as a school modelled on the British public school while remaining conscious of Indian ambitions and desires.
Rashtriya Indian Military College
Military installation
The Rashtriya Indian Military College is a military school for boys and girls situated in Doon Valley, Dehradun in India. The RIMC is a feeder institution for the National Defence Academy, Indian Naval Academy and subsequently the Indian Armed Forces.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dehradun and Clement Town.
Dehradun
Photo: Urgently, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Dehradun is the provisional capital of Uttarakhand state. It is nestled between the Himalayan foothills to the north and the Shivaliks to the south. The town offers breathtaking scenery.
Clement Town
Hamlet
Clement Town is a cantonment town in Dehradun, Dehradun district, in the state of Uttarakhand, India. Clement Town is seven kilometres from the clock tower in main city of Dehradun. Saharanpur and Haridwar are 65 and 54 km respectively. Clement Town is situated 9 km southwest of Dehradun.
Dehradun
- Location: Uttarakhand, Himalayan North, India, South Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Dehradun” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “عمالة دهردون”
- Arabic: “منطقة دهرادون”
- Armenian: “Դեհրադուն”
- Assamese: “দেৰাডুন”
- Asturian: “Dehradun (distritu)”
- Asturian: “Dehradun”
- Asturian: “distritu de Dehradun”
- Basque: “Dehradun barrutia”
- Bengali: “দেরাদুন জেলা”
- Bengali: “দেরাদুন”
- Bhojpuri: “देहरादून जिला”
- Bhojpuri: “देहरादून”
- Bishnupriya: “ডেরাদুন”
- Catalan: “Districte de Dehra Dun”
- Catalan: “Districte de Dehradun”
- Catalan: “Duns”
- Cebuano: “Dehradun”
- Chinese: “Dehradun”
- Chinese: “台拉登”
- Chinese: “台拉登县”
- Chinese: “台拉登縣”
- Chinese: “德拉敦縣”
- Czech: “Déhrádún”
- Dutch: “Dehradun”
- Egyptian Arabic: “دهرادون”
- Finnish: “Dehradunin piirikunta”
- French: “district de Dehradun”
- French: “District de Dehradun”
- Galician: “distrito de Dehradun”
- German: “Dehradun”
- German: “Distrikt Dehradun”
- Greek: “Επαρχία Ντεχραντούν”
- Greek: “Ντεχραντούν”
- Gujarati: “દેહરાદૂન જિલ્લો”
- Gujarati: “દેહરાદૂન”
- Hindi: “देहरादून जिला”
- Hindi: “देहरादून”
- Hungarian: “Dehradún”
- Indonesian: “Distrik Dehradun”
- Italian: “distretto di Dehradun”
- Italian: “Distretto di Dehradun”
- Japanese: “デヘラードゥーン”
- Japanese: “デヘラードゥーン県”
- Japanese: “デラドゥン地区”
- Kannada: “ದೆಹರಾದೂನ್”
- Kashmiri: “دیٚہرادوٗن ضِلہٕ”
- Korean: “데라둔”
- Latin: “Deharaduna”
- Lithuanian: “Dehradūnas”
- Maithili: “देहरादून जिला”
- Malayalam: “ഡെറാഡൂൺ ജില്ല”
- Malayalam: “ഡെറാഡൂൺ”
- Marathi: “डेहराडून जिल्हा”
- Marathi: “डेहराडून”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Dehradun”
- Mingrelian: “დეჰრადუნი”
- Nepali: “देहरादुन जिल्ला”
- Nepali: “देहरादून”
- Newari: “देहरादुन”
- Newari: “देहरादून जिल्ला”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dehradun”
- Norwegian: “Dehradun”
- Oriya: “ଡେରାଡୁନ”
- Panjabi: “ਦੇਹਰਾਦੂਨ ਜ਼ਿਲ੍ਹਾ”
- Panjabi: “ਦੇਹਰਾਦੂਨ”
- Persian: “بخش درادون”
- Persian: “دهرادون”
- Persian: “منطقه دهرادون”
- Polish: “Dehradun”
- Pushto: “دهرادون”
- Russian: “Деградун”
- Russian: “Дехрадун”
- Sanskrit: “देहरादून”
- Sanskrit: “देहरादूनमण्डलम्”
- Santali: “ᱫᱮᱦᱨᱟᱫᱩᱱ ᱦᱚᱱᱚᱛ”
- Serbian: “Дерадун”
- Slovenian: “Dehadrun”
- Spanish: “Dehradun”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Dehradun”
- Swedish: “Dehradun”
- Swedish: “Dehradundistriktet”
- Tamil: “டேராடூன் மாவட்டம்”
- Tamil: “தேராதூன் மாவட்டம்”
- Tamil: “தேராதூன்”
- Telugu: “డెహ్రాడూన్ జిల్లా”
- Telugu: “డెహ్రాడూన్”
- Turkish: “Dehradun”
- Ukrainian: “Деградун”
- Ukrainian: “Дехрадун”
- Urdu: “ڈیرہ دون”
- Urdu: “ضلع دہرہ دون”
- Vietnamese: “Dehradun”
- Western Panjabi: “ڈیرہ دون”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع دہرادون”
- “देहरादून जिला”
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