Sikkim
East Sikkim
Gangtok

Gangtok

Gangtok is a bustling, friendly hill station, and the capital of the Himalayan state of . 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.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Namgyal Institute of Tibetology and Paljor Stadium.

Museum
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is a Tibet museum in Gangtok, , , named after the 11th Chogyal of Sikkim, Sir Tashi Namgyal. The institute employs researchers and one of its new research programs is a project which seeks to document the social history of Sikkim's approximated 60 monasteries and record this on a computer.

Stadium
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is a football located in Gangtok, , . It can host 30,000 spectators. Besides earlier hosting the I-League and the I-League 2, the stadium also hosts matches of various local divisions and tournaments.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a in Gangtok in the state of . Inside this stupa is a complete set of Dorjee Phurba, Kangyur and other religious objects.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ranipool.

Suburb
is a small suburban town located in the bank of river Ranikhola at the junction of National Highway 10 and National Highway 717A in of the state of .

Gangtok

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
United Nations Location Code
IN GAT
Open location code
7MVC8JH6+JW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 342097621
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1271631
Wiki­data ID
Q186141
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Gangtok” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Gangtok”
  • Arabic: “غانتوك”
  • Aragonese: “Gangtok”
  • Armenian: “Գանգթոկ”
  • Assamese: “গেংটক”
  • Asturian: “Gangtok”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qanqtok”
  • Basque: “Gangtok”
  • Belarusian: “Гангток”
  • Belarusian: “Ґанґток”
  • Bengali: “গ্যাংটক”
  • Bhojpuri: “गंगटोक”
  • Bishnupriya: “গ্যাংটক”
  • Breton: “Gangtok”
  • Bulgarian: “Гангток”
  • Catalan: “Gangtog”
  • Catalan: “Gangtok”
  • Cebuano: “Gangtok”
  • Chechen: “Гангток”
  • Chinese: “Gangtok”
  • Chinese: “剛渡”
  • Chinese: “甘托克”
  • Czech: “Gangtog”
  • Czech: “Gangtok”
  • Czech: “Gántók”
  • 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: “گینگٹاک”
  • Korean: “강토크”
  • Korean: “강톡”
  • Ladin: “Gangtok”
  • Latvian: “Gangtok”
  • Latvian: “Gangtoka”
  • Lithuanian: “Gangtokas”
  • Maithili: “गान्टोक”
  • Malagasy: “Gangtok”
  • Malay: “Gangtok”
  • Malayalam: “Gangtok”
  • Malayalam: “ഗങ്ങ്ടോക്ക്”
  • Malayalam: “ഗാങ്ങ് ടോക്ക്”
  • Marathi: “गंगटोक”
  • Marathi: “गांतोक”
  • Marathi: “गान्तोक”
  • 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: “Gangtok”
  • Oriya: “ଗଙ୍ଗଟୋକ”
  • 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”
  • Sinhala: “ගංටොක්”
  • Sinhala: “ගැන්ග්ටෝක්”
  • Slovenian: “Gangtok”
  • Spanish: “Gangtok”
  • Swahili: “Gangtok”
  • Swedish: “Gangtok”
  • Tajik: “Гангток”
  • Tamil: “காங்க்டோக்”
  • Tamil: “கேங்டாக்”
  • Telugu: “గాంగ్‌టక్”
  • Telugu: “గాంగ్టక్”
  • Telugu: “గ్యాంగ్ టక్”
  • Thai: “กังต็อก”
  • Tibetan: “སྒང་ཐོག་”
  • Tibetan: “སྒང་ཐོག”
  • 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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