Garhwal
Garhwal is one of two major regions of Uttarakhand. Garhwal is the more easily accessible northern and western part of Uttarakhand and borders China.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Dehradun and Haridwar.
Dehradun
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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.
Haridwar
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Haridwar, also spelt Hardwar, is a Hindu pilgrimage site at the Ganges River, in the Indian state of Uttarakhand.
Rishikesh
Rishikesh is a small town in the northern state of Uttarakhand, India. Scenically located where the Ganges River comes down from the Himalayas, Rishikesh catapulted to Western fame when the Beatles dropped by for a visit to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's ashram.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Badrinath and Mussoorie.
Badrinath
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Badrinath is a Hindu holy town and a nagar panchayat in Chamoli district in the state of Uttarakhand, India. Badrinath is the most important of the four sites in India's Char Dham pilgrimage.
Mussoorie
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Mussoorie is a hill station in the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand. With its green hills and varied flora and fauna, Mussoorie is a fascinating hill resort and a fabulous honeymoon spot.
Kedarnath
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Kedarnath is a town and Nagar Panchayat in Rudraprayag district of Uttarakhand, India, known primarily for the Kedarnath Temple. It is approximately 86.5 kilometres from Rudraprayag, the district headquarters.
Gangotri
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Gangotri is a town and a Nagar Panchayat in Uttarkashi district in the state of Uttarakhand, India. It is 99 km from Uttarkashi, the main district headquarter.
Devprayag
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Devprayag is a town and a nagar palika, near New Tehri city in Tehri Garhwal District in the state of Uttarakhand, India, and is the final one of the Panch Prayag of Alaknanda River where Alaknanda meets the Bhagirathi river and both rivers thereafter flow on as the Ganges river or Ganga.
Nanda Devi National Park
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Nanda Devi National Park is in the Chamoli district of Uttarakhand in northern India. It is named after the highest mountain entirely in India and has been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list.
Roorkee
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Roorkee is a small town in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand. It is approximately 170 km from the capital of India, New Delhi.
Joshimath
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Joshimath is a city in the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand, India, a major tourist destination and a pilgrimage site at an altitude of 11,000 ft that serves as a gateway to the Hindu pilgrimage town of Badrinath.
Uttarkashi
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Uttarkashi is a town and the headquarters of Uttarkashi district in Uttarakhand, India.
Tehri
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New Tehri is a city and a municipal board in Tehri Garhwal District in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. It is the administrative headquarters of Tehri Garhwal District.
Yamunotri
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Yamunotri, also Jamnotri, is the source of the Yamuna River and the seat of the Goddess Yamuna in Hinduism. It is situated at an altitude of 3,293 metres in the Garhwal Himalayas and located approximately 150 kilometres North of Uttarkashi, the headquarters of the Uttarkashi district in the Garhwal Division of Uttarakhand, India.
Chakrata
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Chakrata is a city in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. Compared to Mussoorie, which is a renowned, developed, and commercialized hill station with cafés, multi-national food chains and well-known hotel chains, Chakrata is a quiet, hidden hill station that is not so developed or commercialized.
Kotdwar
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Kotdwar aka Kotdwara is a town in Garhwal district of Uttarakhand. It is one of the main gateways to Uttarakhand.
Rajaji National Park
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Rajaji National Park is in the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand in the Himalayan North region of India. It has been named as the second tiger reserve in Uttarakhand after the Corbett Tiger Reserve.
Vikasnagar
Vikasnagar is a city and a municipality in Dehradun district in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. Vikas Nagar is also a tehsil in Dehradun district It is also known as Pachawadoon and is the second financial and economic hub of Dehradun district, after the city of Dehradun.Lansdowne
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Lansdowne is a small hill station in Pauri-Garhwal District of the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand. Described by some as the gates to the heavenly abode that is the Himalayas, Lansdowne is also one of the most unusual hill stations in India.
Ghangaria
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Ghangaria is a village at 3,100 m in the Garhwal region of Uttarakhand state in Himalayan North, India. It is the gateway aka base camp for hikes into the Valley of Flowers and the Hemkunt pilgrimage site.
Auli
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Auli is a city in the Indian state of Uttarakhand. Auli is nestled in the lap of snow-capped peaks of Garhwal Himalayas, in the Chamoli district of Uttarakhand, near the religious shrine of Badrinath.
Chamba
Chamba is a town and a hill station, nearby New Tehri City in Tehri Garhwal district in the state of Uttarakhand, India. It is situated at a junction of roads connecting Mussoorie and Rishikesh with the Tehri Dam reservoir and New Tehri.Garhwal
- Type: Area
- Description: administrative division of Uttarakhand, India
- Also known as: “Garhwāl” and “Garhwal division”
- Category: division of Uttarakhand
- Location: Uttarakhand, Himalayan North, India, South Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Garhwal” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “قسم كروال”
- Armenian: “Գարհվալ”
- Belarusian: “Гархвал”
- Bengali: “গাড়োয়াল বিভাগ”
- Bhojpuri: “गढ़वाल मंडल”
- Catalan: “divisió de Garhwal”
- Catalan: “Divisió de Garhwal”
- Chinese: “格尔瓦尔”
- Chinese: “格尔瓦尔专区”
- Czech: “Garhvál”
- Czech: “Garhwal”
- Dutch: “Garhwal division”
- French: “Division de Garhwal”
- French: “Garhwal”
- French: “Ghéroual”
- German: “Garhwal”
- German: “Gurwal”
- Hebrew: “חבל גרוואל”
- Hindi: “गढ़वाल मंडल”
- Hindi: “गढ़वाल मण्डल”
- Igbo: “Garhwal division”
- Italian: “divisione del Garhwal”
- Italian: “Divisione del Garhwal”
- Italian: “Divisione di Garhwal”
- Italian: “Garhwal”
- Japanese: “ガルワール”
- Malay: “Bahagian Garhwal”
- Marathi: “गढवाल विभाग”
- Nepali: “गढवाल मण्डल”
- Newari: “गढवाल मण्डल”
- Newari: “गढ़वाल मण्डल”
- Persian: “بخش گارهوال”
- Russian: “Гархвал”
- Sanskrit: “गढवालविभागः”
- Slovenian: “Garhwal”
- Spanish: “Division de Garhwal”
- Spanish: “División de Garhwal”
- Swedish: “Garhwal”
- Tamil: “கார்வால் கோட்டம்”
- Ukrainian: “Гархвал”
- Ukrainian: “Ґархвал”
- Urdu: “گڑھوال ڈویژن”
- “गढ़वाल मंडल”
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