Jorethang
Jorethang is a major town in Namchi district in the Indian state of Sikkim. Jorethang lies on the bank of Rangeet River, which is a tributary of the Teesta River, on the way to Pelling from Darjeeling, Siliguri and Kalimpong.
- Type: Town with 9,010 residents
- Description: major town in Namchi district in the Indian state of Sikkim.
- Also known as: “NP”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, West Sikkim.
Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, West Sikkim
School
There are 661 Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya schools in India. These JNVs are governed by ten different regions. These Regional Offices are at Bhopal, Chandigarh, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Lucknow, Patna, Pune, Shillong, Ahmedabad and Bhubaneshwar region which have jurisdiction over different states and union territories of India. Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, West Sikkim is situated 4 km north of Jorethang.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nayabazar.
Nayabazar
Village
Nayabazar is a in West Sikkim District of the Indian state of Sikkim. Covering an urban area of 0.12 kilometres, it lies close to the confluence of Rangeet River and Rammam River some 109 kilometres by road from the state capital Gangtok and 25km from Darjeeling.
Jorethang
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: South Sikkim, Sikkim, Eastern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
27.1315° or 27° 7′ 54″ north
Longitude
88.2825° or 88° 16′ 57″ east
Population
9,010
Elevation
290 metres (951 feet)
Open location code
7MVC47JM+J2
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Welsh—“Jorethang” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “জোরেথাং”
- Bishnupriya: “জোরেথাং”
- Cebuano: “Jorethang”
- Chinese: “乔雷唐格”
- Chinese: “喬雷唐格”
- Dutch: “Jorethang”
- Finnish: “Jorethang”
- French: “Jorethang”
- Hindi: “जोरेथांग”
- Irish: “Jorethang”
- Italian: “Jorethang”
- Malagasy: “Jorethang”
- Malay: “Jorethang”
- Malayalam: “ജോറെതാങ്ങ്”
- Nepali: “जोरथाङ”
- Nepali: “जोरेथाङ”
- Newari: “जोरेथाङ”
- Swedish: “Jorethang”
- Ukrainian: “Джоретанґ”
- Ukrainian: “Джоретханґ”
- Urdu: “جورتھانگ”
- Vietnamese: “Jorethang”
- Welsh: “Jorethang”
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