Gangtok
Gangtok is a bustling, friendly hill station, and the capital of the Himalayan state of Sikkim. The name "Gangtok" is derived from the Tibetan word for 'hillside,' and the city has a population of around 100,000 being a mixture of indigenous Sikkimese and people of Nepalese and Tibetan ancestry.
- Type: City with 100,000 residents
- Description: city in Gangtok district, Sikkim, India
- Also known as: “Gangtog”, “Gántók”, “गांतोक”, “ଗଙ୍ଗଟୋକ”, “காங்க்டோக்”, “గ్యాంగ్ టక్”, “ഗാങ്ങ് ടോക്ക്”, and “སྒང་ཐོག་”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Namgyal Institute of Tibetology and Paljor Stadium.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ranipool.
Gangtok
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Gangtok, East Sikkim, Sikkim, Eastern India, India, South Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
27.329° or 27° 19′ 45″ north
Longitude
88.6123° or 88° 36′ 44″ east
Population
100,000
Elevation
1,654 metres (5,427 feet)
IATA airport code
PYG
UN/LOCODE
IN GAT
Open location code
7MVC8JH6+JW
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Gangtok” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Gangtok”
- Angika: “गंगटोक”
- Arabic: “غانتوك”
- Aragonese: “Gangtok”
- Armenian: “Գանգթոկ”
- Assamese: “গেংটক”
- Asturian: “Gangtok”
- Azerbaijani: “Qanqtok”
- Basque: “Gangtok”
- Belarusian: “Гангток”
- Bengali: “গ্যাংটক”
- Bhojpuri: “गंगटोक”
- Bishnupriya: “গ্যাংটক”
- Breton: “Gangtok”
- Bulgarian: “Гангток”
- Catalan: “Gangtok”
- Cebuano: “Gangtok”
- Chechen: “Гангток”
- Chinese: “甘托克”
- Czech: “Gangtok”
- Danish: “Gangtok”
- Dotyali: “गान्तोक”
- Dutch: “Gangtok”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جانتوك”
- Esperanto: “Gangtok”
- Esperanto: “Gangtoko”
- Fiji Hindi: “Gangtok”
- Finnish: “Gangtok”
- French: “Gangtok”
- Georgian: “განგტოკი”
- German: “Gangtok”
- Greek: “Γκανγκτόκ”
- Greek: “Γκάνγκτοκ”
- Gujarati: “ગંગટોક”
- Hebrew: “גנגטוק”
- Hindi: “गंगटोक”
- Hindi: “गान्तोक”
- Hungarian: “Gangtok”
- Ido: “Gangtok”
- Indonesian: “Gangtok”
- Irish: “Gangtok”
- Italian: “Gangtok”
- Japanese: “ガントク”
- Kannada: “ಗಂಗ್ಟೋಕ್”
- Kannada: “ಗ್ಯಾಂಗಟಕ್”
- Kashmiri: “گینٛگٹاک”
- Korean: “강토크”
- Korean: “강톡”
- Ladin: “Gangtok”
- Latvian: “Gangtoka”
- Lithuanian: “Gangtokas”
- Magahi: “गङ्गटोक”
- Maithili: “गान्टोक”
- Malagasy: “Gangtok”
- Malay: “Gangtok”
- Malayalam: “ഗങ്ങ്ടോക്ക്”
- Marathi: “गंगटोक”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Gangtok”
- Mingrelian: “განგტოკი”
- Nepali: “गान्तोक”
- Newari: “गाङतोक”
- Northern Frisian: “Gangtok”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gangtok”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gangtok”
- Norwegian: “Gangtok”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Gangtok”
- Oriya: “ଗାଙ୍ଗଟକ”
- Ossetian: “Гангток”
- Pampanga: “Gangtok”
- Panjabi: “ਗੰਗਟੋਕ”
- Persian: “گانتوک”
- Persian: “گنگتوک”
- Polish: “Gangtok”
- Portuguese: “Gangtok”
- Portuguese: “Ganguetoque”
- Romanian: “Gangtok”
- Russian: “Гангток”
- Sanskrit: “गङ्गटोक्”
- Santali: “ᱜᱟᱝᱴᱚᱠ”
- Scots: “Gangtok”
- Serbian: “Gangtok”
- Serbian: “Гангток”
- Sindhi: “گانگٽوڪ”
- Sinhala: “ගංටොක්”
- Sinhala: “ගැන්ග්ටෝක්”
- Slovenian: “Gangtok”
- Spanish: “Gangtok”
- Swahili: “Gangtok”
- Swedish: “Gangtok”
- Tajik: “Гангток”
- Tamil: “கேங்டாக்”
- Telugu: “గాంగ్టక్”
- Telugu: “గాంగ్టక్”
- Thai: “กังต็อก”
- Tibetan: “སྒང་ཐོག”
- Tulu: “ಗ್ಯಾಂಗ್ಟೊಕ್”
- Turkish: “Gangtok”
- Ukrainian: “Гангток”
- Ukrainian: “Ґанґток”
- Urdu: “گینگٹاک”
- Uzbek: “Gangtok shahri”
- Uzbek: “Gangtok”
- Venetian: “Gangtok”
- Vietnamese: “Gangtok”
- Waray (Philippines): “Gangtok”
- Welsh: “Gangtok”
- Western Panjabi: “گنگٹوک”
- Wu Chinese: “甘托克”
- Yue Chinese: “剛渡”
- “गंगटोक”
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