Delhi

Delhi, 's largest city, is the country's thriving melting pot. Home to , the country's capital, Delhi is at the centre of India's arts, commerce, education, tourism and transit.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include New Delhi and Old Delhi.

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, the capital of the and the seat of its three branches of government, is characterised by its wide boulevards, roundabouts, colonial mansions and government buildings.

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is the Mughal-era walled city that comprises the historic core of Delhi. Constructed by the fifth Mughal ruler Shah Jahan as Shahjahanabad, is centred around the Red Fort and the Jama Masjid, as well as Chandni Chowk, a paradise for street food lovers.

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, the main airport of Delhi, is the primary hub of all national and international traffic in . It is the busiest airport in India, 17th busiest in the world and 6th busiest in in terms of both passenger and cargo traffic, handling more than 70 million passengers.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as South Delhi and South East Delhi.

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contains many upmarket neighbourhoods of Delhi. It has a high concentration of hotels and guest houses, shopping malls, markets and restaurants.

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is a district of Delhi which, like , is high-income and with easy motorway access to the airport. The district is home to two historic sites: Shergarh and Tughlakabad.

district is one of the 11 administrative districts of the in . Administratively, the district is divided into three subdivisions, , and .

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district is an administrative district of the in India. It is bounded by the Yamuna River on the east and by the districts of North Delhi to the north, West Delhi and North West Delhi to the west, and South East Delhi to the south, and East Delhi, , and North East Delhi to the east across the Yamuna.

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, on the eastern bank of the Yamuna River, is one of the victims of the city's urban sprawls over the last decades. Although not particularly attractive for history buffs, is home to the Akshardham, Delhi's largest Hindu temple.

Places of Interest

Highlights include India Gate and Red Fort, Delhi.

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, formerly known as the All India War Memorial, is a prominent situated on the eastern edge of the ceremonial axis of , officially known as Kartavya Path.

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The Red Fort is a historic Mughal fort located in the Old Delhi area of Delhi, India. It served as the main residence of the Mughal emperors. Commissioned by Emperor Shah Jahan on the 12th of May 1639, the fort was constructed following his decision to shift the Mughal capital from to Delhi.

Railway station
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is the primary railway hub for the Indian capital, , and an integral part of Indian Railways. Situated in , approximately 2 kilometers north of , the station features 16 platforms with entrances at and Ajmeri Gate.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include North New Delhi and Karol Bagh.

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is the commercial enclave of , north of the . It consists of Connaught Place, the city's commercial heart, as well as the Supreme Court, the symbol of India's judiciary.

Suburb
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is a neighborhood in , . It is a mixed residential and commercial neighborhood known for shopping streets, such as the Ghaffar Market and Ajmal Khan Road.

Locality
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The , formerly Viceroy's House and Government House is the official residence of the President of India, located at the western end of Rajpath, in .

Delhi

Latitude
28.6327° or 28° 37′ 58″ north
Longitude
77.2196° or 77° 13′ 11″ east
Population
16,800,000
Elevation
227 metres (745 feet)
IATA airport code
DEL
United Nations Location Code
IN DEL
Open location code
7JWVJ6M9+3V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 14069907105
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1273294
Wiki­data ID
Q1353
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In Other Languages

From Adyghe to Yue Chinese—“Delhi” goes by many names.
  • Adyghe: “Дели”
  • Afrikaans: “Delhi”
  • Albanian: “Delhi”
  • Amharic: “ዴሊ”
  • Angika: “दिल्ली”
  • Arabic: “دلهى”
  • Arabic: “دلهي”
  • Aragonese: “Delhi”
  • Armenian: “Դելի”
  • Assamese: “দিল্লী”
  • Asturian: “Delhi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Dehli”
  • Balinese: “Delhi”
  • Bashkir: “Дели”
  • Basque: “Delhi”
  • Belarusian: “Дэлі”
  • Bengali: “দিল্লি”
  • Bengali: “দিল্লী”
  • Bhojpuri: “दिल्ली केंद्रशासित प्रदेश”
  • Bhojpuri: “दिल्ली”
  • Bhojpuri: “नई दिल्ली”
  • Bishnupriya: “দিল্লী”
  • Bislama: “Delhi”
  • Bosnian: “Delhi”
  • Brahui: “Daelí”
  • Breton: “Delhi”
  • Bulgarian: “Делхи”
  • Burmese: “ဒေလီမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Delhi”
  • Cebuano: “Delhi (kapital sa estado)”
  • Cebuano: “Delhi”
  • Central Bikol: “Delhi”
  • Central Kanuri: “Delhi”
  • Central Kurdish: “دەلھی”
  • Central Kurdish: “دێھلی”
  • Chechen: “Дели”
  • Chinese: “Delhi”
  • Chinese: “德里”
  • Chuvash: “Дели”
  • Cornish: “Delhi”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Deli”
  • Croatian: “Delhi”
  • Czech: “Dillí”
  • Czech: “Šáhdžahanabád”
  • Danish: “Delhi”
  • Dhivehi: “ދިއްލީ”
  • Dutch: “Delhi”
  • Eastern Mari: “Дели”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ديلهى”
  • Esperanto: “Delhio”
  • Estonian: “Delhi”
  • Extremaduran: “Delhi”
  • Faroese: “Delhi”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Delhi”
  • Fiji Hindi: “New Delhi”
  • Fijian: “Delhi”
  • Finnish: “Delhi”
  • French: “Delhi”
  • French: “Deli”
  • Galician: “Delhi”
  • Gan Chinese: “德里”
  • Georgian: “დელი”
  • German: “Dehli”
  • German: “Delhi”
  • Goan Konkani: “Dil’li”
  • Goan Konkani: “दिल्ली”
  • Greek: “Δελχί”
  • Guarani: “Ndéli”
  • Gujarati: “દિલ્લી”
  • Gujarati: “દિલ્હી”
  • Hausa: “Delhi”
  • Hebrew: “דלהי”
  • Hindi: “इन्द्रप्रस्थ”
  • Hindi: “दिल्ली”
  • Hindi: “देहली”
  • Hungarian: “Delhi”
  • Icelandic: “Delhí”
  • Icelandic: “Delí”
  • Ido: “Delhi”
  • Iloko: “Delhi”
  • Inari Sami: “Delhi”
  • Indonesian: “Delhi”
  • Ingush: “Дели”
  • Irish: “Deilí”
  • Irish: “Delhi”
  • Italian: “Delhi”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Deli”
  • Japanese: “Dehlee”
  • Japanese: “Dehli”
  • Japanese: “Dehlī”
  • Japanese: “Dilli”
  • Japanese: “デリー”
  • Kabiyè: “Teeli”
  • Kalaallisut: “Delhi”
  • Kannada: “ಕೇಂದ್ರಾಢಳಿತ ಪ್ರದೇಶ”
  • Kannada: “ದೆಹಲಿ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Deli”
  • Kashmiri: “دِل”
  • Kashmiri: “دلھی”
  • Kashmiri: “دہلی”
  • Kazakh: “Дели”
  • Khmer: “ដេលី”
  • Kirghiz: “Дели шаары”
  • Kirghiz: “Дели”
  • Korean: “델리”
  • Kurdish: “Delhî”
  • Ladin: “Delhi”
  • Ladino: “Delhi”
  • Latin: “Dellium”
  • Latvian: “Deli”
  • Lezghian: “Дели”
  • Limburgan: “Delhi”
  • Lingala: “Delhi”
  • Lithuanian: “Delis”
  • Livvi: “Delhi”
  • Low German: “Delhi”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Delhi”
  • Macedonian: “Делхи”
  • Maithili: “दिल्ली”
  • Malagasy: “Delhi”
  • Malagasy: “Faritan’i Delhi”
  • Malagasy: “Faritani Delhi”
  • Malay: “Delhi”
  • Malayalam: “ഡൽഹി”
  • Malayalam: “ഡെൽഹി”
  • Malayalam: “ദില്ലി”
  • Malayalam: “ദെഹ്‌ലി”
  • Maltese: “Delhi”
  • Manipuri: “ꯗꯦꯜꯍꯤ”
  • Maori: “Delhi”
  • Marathi: “दिल्ली”
  • Mazanderani: “دهلی”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Delhi”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Delhi”
  • Mingrelian: “დელი”
  • Moksha: “Дэли”
  • Mongolian: “Дели”
  • Nepali: “दिल्ली”
  • Newari: “दिल्ली”
  • Northern Frisian: “Delhi”
  • Northern Luri: “دهلی نو”
  • Northern Sami: “Delhi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Delhi”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Delhi”
  • Norwegian: “Delhi”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Delhi”
  • Nyanja: “Delhi”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Delhi”
  • Oriya: “ଦିଲ୍ଲୀ”
  • Ossetian: “Дели”
  • Pampanga: “Delhi”
  • Panjabi: “ਦਿੱਲੀ”
  • Persian: “دهلی قدیم”
  • Persian: “دهلی”
  • Polish: “Delhi”
  • Portuguese: “Deli”
  • Pushto: “ډيلي”
  • Pushto: “ډېلي”
  • Quechua: “Dilhi”
  • Romanian: “Delhi”
  • Russia Buriat: “Дели”
  • Russian: “Дели”
  • Rusyn: “Делі”
  • Samogitian: “Delis”
  • Sanskrit: “इन्द्रप्रस्थम्”
  • Sanskrit: “दिल्ली”
  • Sanskrit: “देल्ही”
  • Sanskrit: “देहली”
  • Sanskrit: “राष्ट्रियराजधानीक्षेत्रम्”
  • Sanskrit: “राष्ट्रियराजधानीप्रदेशम्”
  • Santali: “ᱫᱤᱞᱞᱤ”
  • Saraiki: “دلی”
  • Scots: “Delhi”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Delhi”
  • Serbian: “Делхи”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Delhi”
  • Shona: “Category:Delhi”
  • Sicilian: “Delhi”
  • Silesian: “Delhi”
  • Sindhi: “دهلي”
  • Sinhala: “දිල්ලිය”
  • Skolt Sami: “Delhi”
  • Slovak: “Dillí”
  • Slovenian: “Delhi”
  • South Azerbaijani: “دهلی”
  • Spanish: “Delhi”
  • Swahili: “Delhi”
  • Swedish: “Delhi”
  • Swiss German: “Delhi”
  • Tagalog: “Delhi”
  • Tajik: “Деҳли”
  • Tajik: “Деҳлӣ”
  • Talysh: “Dehli”
  • Tamil: “டெல்லி”
  • Tamil: “தில்லி”
  • Tatar: “Dähli”
  • Tatar: “Дәһли”
  • Telugu: “ఢిల్లీ భారత జాతీయ రాజధాని ప్రాంతం”
  • Telugu: “ఢిల్లీ”
  • Telugu: “దిల్లీ”
  • Thai: “เดลี”
  • Tok Pisin: “Deli”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Delhi”
  • Tulu: “ದೆಹಲಿ”
  • Turkish: “Delhi”
  • Turkmen: “Deli”
  • Twi: “Delhi”
  • Uighur: “Déhli”
  • Uighur: “دېھلى”
  • Ukrainian: “Делі”
  • Ukrainian: “Старе Делі”
  • Urdu: “پرانی دہلی”
  • Urdu: “دلی”
  • Urdu: “دہلی”
  • Uzbek: “Dehli”
  • Venetian: “Delhi”
  • Veps: “Deli”
  • Vietnamese: “Delhi”
  • Vlax Romani: “दिल्ली”
  • Volapük: “Delhi”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Delhi”
  • Welsh: “Delhi”
  • Western Armenian: “Տելհի”
  • Western Frisian: “Delhi”
  • Western Panjabi: “دلی”
  • Western Panjabi: “دہلی”
  • Wu Chinese: “德里”
  • Yakut: “Дели”
  • Yiddish: “דעלהי”
  • Yoruba: “Delhi”
  • Yue Chinese: “德里”
  • “Delhi”
  • “Delis”
  • “ma tomo Teli”
  • “Q1353”
  • “दिल्ली”

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