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Delhi is 's capital and seat of government. It forms the National Capital Territory of Delhi, rather than being part of a state. Delhi is one of India's largest cities, and the core of one of the largest metropolitan areas in the world, with over 28½ million inhabitants.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include New Delhi and Central Delhi.

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, the central part of the National Capital Territory of Delhi, is the British-built capital of India. Characterised by its wide boulevards, many roundabouts, colonial mansions, and government buildings dotted with monuments from various parts of India's history, this is the heart of the capital.

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is a district in Delhi. The district contains the historic core of Delhi, also known as Old Delhi. The northern parts of the district were developed mainly during the days of British rule, and are known for their Raj-era buildings and institutions.

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is the main airport of the Delhi metropolitan area in . As 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 East Delhi and South Delhi.

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is a district of Delhi which, like , is high-income and with easy motorway access to the airport. The current district borders of include a number of important sites near the city centre, including Humayun's Tomb, Purana Qila and Tughlaqabad.

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

West Delhi district is one of the 11 administrative districts of the National Capital Territory of Delhi in . Administratively, the district is divided into three subdivisions, , and .

Places of Interest

Highlights include India Gate and Red Fort, Delhi.

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The is a located near the Rajpath on the eastern edge of the "ceremonial axis" of New Delhi. It stands as a memorial to 74,187 soldiers of the Indian Army who died between 1914 and 1921 in the First World War, in , , Mesopotamia, Persia, , and elsewhere in the Near and the Far East, and the Third Anglo-Afghan War.

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The Red Fort is an 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 Eastern Delhi and Karol Bagh.

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consists of three administrative districts: East Delhi, North East Delhi and Shahdara, which are all on the eastern bank of the Yamuna River. Akshardham is the most famous attraction in the district.

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 (pronunciation, ISO: Rāṣṭrapati Bhavana; lit. 'Presidential Palace'; 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 316416994
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 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”
  • 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”
  • Romanian: “New 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”
  • Swedish: “New 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 Panjabi: “دلی”
  • Western Panjabi: “دہلی”
  • Wu Chinese: “德里”
  • Yakut: “Дели”
  • Yiddish: “דעלהי”
  • Yoruba: “Delhi”
  • Yue Chinese: “德里”
  • “Dehlee”
  • “Dehli”
  • “Dehlī”
  • “Delhi”
  • “Delis”
  • “Dilli”
  • “Dillī”
  • “ma tomo Teli”
  • “दिल्ली”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Delhi”. Photo: Gangulybiswarup, CC BY 3.0.