Dehradun
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 448,000 residents
- Description: capital of Uttarakhand, India
- Also known as: “D.Dun”, “Dehra Dun”, “Dehra Dūn”, “Dera Dun”, and “Deradun”
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.
Dehradun
- Categories: largest city, provincial capital, big city, and locality
- Location: Garhwal, Uttarakhand, Himalayan North, India, South Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
30.3256° or 30° 19′ 32″ northLongitude
78.0437° or 78° 2′ 37″ eastPopulation
448,000Elevation
664 metres (2,178 feet)IATA airport code
DEDUnited Nations Location Code
IN DEDOpen location code
8J2W82GV+6FOpenStreetMap ID
node 299531301OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1273313Wikidata 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”
- Arabic: “دَهْرَدُونُ”
- Armenian: “Դեհրադուն”
- Assamese: “ডেৰাডুন”
- Assamese: “দেৰাডুন”
- Asturian: “Dehradun”
- Basque: “Dehradun”
- Bavarian: “Dehradun”
- Belarusian: “Дэхрадун”
- Bengali: “দেরাদুন”
- Bhojpuri: “देहरादून”
- Bishnupriya: “ডেরাদুন”
- Catalan: “Dehra Doon”
- Catalan: “Dehra Dun”
- Catalan: “Dehra”
- Catalan: “Dehradun”
- Cebuano: “Dehradun”
- Chinese: “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: “Dehradum”
- Esperanto: “Dehradun”
- Esperanto: “Dehraduno”
- Fiji Hindi: “Dehradun”
- Finnish: “Dehradun”
- French: “Dehra Dun”
- French: “Dehradun”
- Georgian: “დეჰრადუნი”
- German: “Dehra Dun”
- German: “Dehradun”
- Greek: “Ντέχραντουν”
- Gujarati: “દેહરાદૂન”
- Hausa: “Dehradun”
- Hebrew: “דהראדון”
- Hebrew: “דהרדון”
- Hebrew: “דהרה דון”
- Hindi: “देहरादून”
- Hungarian: “Dehradún”
- Indonesian: “Dehra Dun”
- Indonesian: “Dehradun”
- Irish: “Dehradun”
- Italian: “Dehra Dun”
- Italian: “Dehradun”
- Japanese: “デーラドゥン”
- Japanese: “デヘラードゥーン”
- Japanese: “デラドゥン”
- Kannada: “ದೆಹರದೂನ್”
- Kannada: “ದೆಹರಾದೂನ್”
- Kannada: “ದೆಹರಾದೂನ್”
- Kashmiri: “دَہرادوٗن”
- Kashmiri: “دہرہ دون”
- Kinaray-A: “Dehrādūn”
- Korean: “데라둔”
- Ladin: “Dehradun”
- Latin: “Deharaduna”
- Latin: “Dehradun”
- Latvian: “Dehraduna”
- Latvian: “Dehrādūna”
- Lithuanian: “Dehradūnas”
- Macedonian: “Дерадун”
- Maithili: “देहरादून”
- Malagasy: “Dehradun”
- Malay: “Dehradun”
- Malayalam: “Dehra Dun”
- Malayalam: “Dehradun”
- Malayalam: “ഡെറാഡൂൺ”
- Marathi: “डेहराडून”
- Marathi: “देहरादून”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Dehradun”
- Mingrelian: “დეჰრადუნი”
- Nepali: “देहरादुन”
- Nepali: “देहरादून”
- Newari: “देहरादुन”
- Northern Frisian: “Dehradun”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dehra Doon”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dehradun”
- Norwegian: “Dehradun”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Dehradun”
- Oriya: “Dehradun”
- Oriya: “ଡେରାଡୁନ”
- Oriya: “ଦେରାଦୁନ”
- Oriya: “ଦେହରାଦୂନ”
- Ossetian: “Дехрадун”
- Pampanga: “Dehradun”
- Panjabi: “ਦੇਹਰਾਦੂਨ”
- Persian: “درادون”
- Persian: “دهرادون”
- Polish: “Dehradun”
- Portuguese: “Dehradun”
- Portuguese: “Deradum”
- Pushto: “دهرا دون”
- Pushto: “دهرادون”
- Romanian: “Dehradun”
- Russian: “Дехра-Дун”
- Russian: “Дехрадун”
- Russian: “Дехрадуне”
- Sanskrit: “उत्तराखण्डः”
- Sanskrit: “डेहराडून्”
- Sanskrit: “देहरादून”
- Santali: “ᱫᱮᱦᱨᱟᱫᱩᱱ”
- Scots: “Dehradun”
- Serbian: “Dehradun”
- Serbian: “Deradun”
- Serbian: “Дерадун”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Dehradun”
- Sinhala: “දෙහ්රදන්”
- Slovenian: “Dehradun”
- South Azerbaijani: “دهرادون”
- Spanish: “Dehra Dunn”
- Spanish: “Dehradun”
- Spanish: “Dehraduna”
- Spanish: “Dehradūna”
- Spanish: “Dehrāduna”
- Spanish: “Dehrādūna”
- Swahili: “Dehradun”
- Swedish: “Dehradun”
- Tajik: “Деҳродун”
- Talysh: “Dehradun”
- Tamil: “டெஹ்ராடூன்”
- Tamil: “டேராடூண்”
- Tamil: “தேராதூன்”
- Tamil: “தேஹ்ராதுன்”
- Tatar: “Дехрадун”
- Telugu: “డెహ్రాడూన్”
- Thai: “เดราดูน”
- Thai: “เดห์ราดูน”
- Turkish: “Dehra Dun”
- Turkish: “Dehradun”
- Ukrainian: “Деградун”
- Ukrainian: “Дехрадун”
- Urdu: “دہرہ دون”
- Urdu: “ڈیرہ دون”
- Uzbek: “Dehradun”
- Venetian: “Dehradun”
- Vietnamese: “Dehradun”
- Waray (Philippines): “Dehradun”
- Welsh: “Dehra Doon”
- Welsh: “Dehra Dun”
- Welsh: “Dehradun”
- Western Panjabi: “دہرادون”
- Western Panjabi: “ڈیرہ دون”
- Wu Chinese: “台拉登”
- Yue Chinese: “德拉敦”
- “देहरादून”
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