Kalka

Kalka is in , right up at the northeastern tip of the state on the border with .
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  • Type: Town with 5,000 residents
  • Description: human settlement
  • Postal code: 133302

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kalka railway station.

Railway station
Photo: AHEMSLTD, CC BY 2.5.
is the northern terminus of the Delhi–Kalka line, and the starting point of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Kalka–Shimla Railway. It serves passengers from Kalka, , moving on to and .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Parwanoo and Pinjore.

Town
Photo: Giridhar Appaji Nag Y, CC BY 2.0.
or Parwanu is a Municipal council in Solan district in the Indian state of . It is an industrial town. It has Himachal's biggest wholesale market.

Town
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is a town in in the state of . This residential 'township', located close to , and , is set over 1,800 feet above the sea level in a valley, overlooking the Sivalik Hills. is situated 4½ km southwest of Kalka.

Kalka

Latitude
30.838° or 30° 50′ 17″ north
Longitude
76.9395° or 76° 56′ 22″ east
Population
5,000
Elevation
703 metres (2,306 feet)
Open location code
8J2RRWQQ+6R
Open­Street­Map ID
node 245770782
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1268381
Wiki­data ID
Q1026888
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Vietnamese—“Kalka” goes by many names.
  • Asturian: “Kalka”
  • Awadhi: “कालका”
  • Bengali: “কালকা”
  • Bishnupriya: “কালকা”
  • Catalan: “Kalka”
  • Cebuano: “Kālka”
  • Chinese: “Kalka”
  • Chinese: “卡尔卡”
  • Chinese: “卡爾卡”
  • Dutch: “Kalka”
  • French: “Kalka”
  • German: “Kalka”
  • Gujarati: “કાલકા”
  • Hebrew: “הומנה”
  • Hindi: “कालका”
  • Irish: “Kalka”
  • Italian: “Kalka”
  • Japanese: “カールカー”
  • Kannada: “ಕಲ್ಕಾ”
  • Kashmiri: “کالکا”
  • Korean: “칼카”
  • Malay: “Kalka”
  • Malayalam: “കാൽക്ക”
  • Marathi: “कालका”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kalka”
  • Nepali: “कालका”
  • Newari: “कल्का”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kalka”
  • Norwegian: “Kalka”
  • Panjabi: “ਕਾਲਕਾ”
  • Persian: “کالکا”
  • Polish: “Kalka”
  • Portuguese: “Kalka”
  • Russian: “Калка”
  • Russian: “Калки”
  • Sanskrit: “काल्का”
  • Spanish: “Kalka”
  • Swedish: “Kālka”
  • Tamil: “கால்கா”
  • Telugu: “కల్క”
  • Telugu: “కల్కా”
  • Urdu: “کالکا”
  • Vietnamese: “Kalka”

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