Darjeeling
Darjeeling is a hill station in the northern region of West Bengal. It used to be a lovely Victorian town built among the Himalayan foothills, the remnants of which are still visible around the Chowrasta.Photo: Darkone, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Anilbharadwaj125, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- 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 Darjeeling railway station and Lloyd’s Botanical Garden.
Darjeeling railway station
Railway station
Photo: Bgag, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Darjeeling railway station is the main railway station in Darjeeling district in the Indian state of West Bengal. The station lies on UNESCO World Heritage Site Darjeeling Himalayan Railway.
Lloyd’s Botanical Garden
Garden
Photo: Jeabapt, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lloyd's Botanical Garden, or Darjeeling Botanical Garden, is a botanical garden in Darjeeling in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park
Zoo
Photo: Senorita786, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Padmaja Naidu Himalayan Zoological Park is a 67.56-acre zoo in the town of Darjeeling in the Indian state of West Bengal. The zoo was opened in 1958, and an average elevation of 7,000 feet, is the largest high altitude zoo in India.
Darjeeling
- Categories: municipality of West Bengal, big city, and locality
- Location: Darjeeling Pulbazar, Darjeeling, North Bengal, West Bengal, Eastern India, India, South Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
27.0378° or 27° 2′ 16″ northLongitude
88.2632° or 88° 15′ 47″ eastPopulation
119,000Elevation
2,127 metres (6,978 feet)United Nations Location Code
IN DAIOpen location code
7MVC27Q7+47OpenStreetMap ID
node 3411073296OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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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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