Dehradun

Dehradun is the winter capital of the state of . Nestled between the Himalayan foothills to the north and the Shivaliks to the south, the town offers breathtaking scenery.
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  • Type: City with 448,000 residents
  • Description: capital of Uttarakhand, India
  • Also known as: “D.Dun”, “Dehra”, “Dehra Doon”, “Dehra Dūn”, “Dehra Dunn”, “Dehradum”, “Dehraduna”, “Dehradūna”, “Dehrāduna”, “Dera Dun”, “Дехра-Дун”, “דהרדון”, “دَهْرَدُونُ”, “उत्तराखण्डः”, “डेहराडून्”, “ডেৰাডুন”, “ଦେରାଦୁନ”, “ଦେହରାଦୂନ”, “டெஹ்ராடூன்”, “டேராடூண்”, “தேஹ்ராதுன்”, “ಡಿ.ಡನ್”, “ಡೆರಾಡೂನ್”, “ಡೆಹ್ರಾ ಡನ್”, “ಡೇರಾ ಡನ್”, “デーラドゥン”, and “デラドゥン”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Dehradun railway station and The Doon School.

Railway station
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Dehradun Terminal railway station is a railway station in Dehradun, , India, on the Northern line of the Northern Railway network. It is owned by Indian Railways.

School
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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.

Military installation
The 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, and subsequently the Indian Armed Forces.

Dehradun

Latitude
30.3256° or 30° 19′ 32″ north
Longitude
78.0437° or 78° 2′ 37″ east
Population
448,000
Elevation
664 metres (2,178 feet)
IATA airport code
DED
UN/LOCODE
IN DED
Open location code
8J2W82GV+6F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 299531301
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1273313
Wiki­data ID
Q199528
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In Other Languages

From Angika to Yue Chinese—“Dehradun” goes by many names.
  • Angika: “देहरादून”
  • Arabic: “دهرادون”
  • Arabic: “دهردون”
  • Armenian: “Դեհրադուն”
  • Assamese: “দেৰাডুন”
  • Asturian: “Dehradun”
  • Basque: “Dehradun”
  • Bavarian: “Dehradun”
  • Belarusian: “Дэхрадун”
  • Bengali: “দেরাদুন”
  • Bhojpuri: “देहरादून”
  • Bishnupriya: “ডেরাদুন”
  • Catalan: “Dehradun”
  • Cebuano: “Dehradun”
  • Chinese: “台拉登”
  • Chinese: “德拉敦”
  • Croatian: “Dehradun”
  • Czech: “Déhrádún”
  • Danish: “Dehradun”
  • Dotyali: “देहरादून”
  • Dutch: “Dehradun”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “دهرادون”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مدينه دهرادون”
  • Esperanto: “Dehradun”
  • Esperanto: “Dehraduno”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Dehradun”
  • Finnish: “Dehradun”
  • French: “Dehradun”
  • Georgian: “დეჰრადუნი”
  • German: “Dehradun”
  • Greek: “Ντέχραντουν”
  • Gujarati: “દેહરાદૂન”
  • Hausa: “Dehradun”
  • Hebrew: “דהראדון”
  • Hebrew: “דהרה דון”
  • Hindi: “देहरादून”
  • Hungarian: “Dehradún”
  • Indonesian: “Dehradun”
  • Irish: “Dehradun”
  • Italian: “Dehradun”
  • Japanese: “デヘラードゥーン”
  • Kannada: “ದೆಹರದೂನ್”
  • Kannada: “ದೆಹರಾದೂನ್”
  • Kannada: “ದೆಹರಾದೂನ್‌”
  • Kashmiri: “دَہرادوٗن”
  • Kinaray-A: “Dehrādūn”
  • Korean: “데라둔”
  • Ladin: “Dehradun”
  • Latin: “Deharaduna”
  • Latin: “Dehradun”
  • Latvian: “Dehrādūna”
  • Lithuanian: “Dehradūnas”
  • Macedonian: “Дерадун”
  • Magahi: “देहरादून”
  • Maithili: “देहरादून”
  • Malagasy: “Dehradun”
  • Malay: “Dehradun”
  • Malayalam: “ഡെറാഡൂൺ”
  • Marathi: “डेहराडून”
  • Marathi: “देहरादून”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Dehradun”
  • Mingrelian: “დეჰრადუნი”
  • Nepali: “देहरादुन”
  • Nepali: “देहरादून”
  • Newari: “देहरादुन”
  • Northern Frisian: “Dehradun”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dehradun”
  • Norwegian: “Dehradun”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Dehradun”
  • Oriya: “ଡେରାଡୁନ”
  • Ossetian: “Дехрадун”
  • Pampanga: “Dehradun”
  • Panjabi: “ਦੇਹਰਾਦੂਨ”
  • Persian: “درادون”
  • Persian: “دهرادون”
  • Polish: “Dehradun”
  • Portuguese: “Dehradun”
  • Portuguese: “Deradum”
  • Pushto: “دهرا دون”
  • Pushto: “دهرادون”
  • Romanian: “Dehradun”
  • Russian: “Дехрадун”
  • Russian: “Дехрадуне”
  • Sanskrit: “देहरादून”
  • Santali: “ᱫᱮᱦᱨᱟᱫᱩᱱ”
  • Scots: “Dehradun”
  • Serbian: “Deradun”
  • Serbian: “Дерадун”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Dehradun”
  • Sinhala: “දෙහ්රදන්”
  • Slovenian: “Dehradun”
  • South Azerbaijani: “دهرادون”
  • Spanish: “Dehradun”
  • Swahili: “Dehradun”
  • Swedish: “Dehradun”
  • Tajik: “Деҳродун”
  • Talysh: “Dehradun”
  • Tamil: “தேராதூன்”
  • Tatar: “Дехрадун”
  • Telugu: “డెహ్రాడూన్”
  • Thai: “เดราดูน”
  • Thai: “เดห์ราดูน”
  • Tulu: “ಡೆಹ್ರಾಡೂನ್”
  • Turkish: “Dehra Dun”
  • Turkish: “Dehradun”
  • Ukrainian: “Деградун”
  • Urdu: “دہرہ دون”
  • Urdu: “ڈیرہ دون”
  • Uzbek: “Dehradun”
  • Venetian: “Dehradun”
  • Vietnamese: “Dehradun”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Dehradun”
  • Welsh: “Dehradun”
  • Western Panjabi: “دہرادون”
  • Western Panjabi: “ڈیرہ دون”
  • Wu Chinese: “台拉登”
  • Yue Chinese: “德拉敦”
  • “देहरादून”

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