Matheran
Matheran is the closest hill station to Mumbai. It is in the Raigad district of Maharashtra. There are a number of lookout points that provide spectacular views of the surrounding hills and valleys.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Knipptang, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Matheran railway station and Aman Lodge railway station.
Matheran railway station
Railway station
Photo: Abhijitsathe, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Matheran Railway Station is the upper terminus of the Matheran Hill Railway. It is the fifth and last station of the narrow gauge line.
Aman Lodge railway station
Railway station
Photo: Sobarwiki, Public domain.
Aman Lodge railway station is a railway station on the Neral–Matheran railway line of the Matheran Hill Railway. The Aman Lodge – Matheran service continues during monsoon too.
Matheran
- Type: Town with 5,000 residents
- Description: hill station near Mumbai, Maharashtra
- Categories: human settlement, hill station, and locality
- Location: Karjat, Raigad, Maharashtra, Western India, India, South Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
18.98° or 18° 58′ 48″ northLongitude
73.27° or 73° 16′ 12″ eastPopulation
5,000Elevation
740 metres (2,428 feet)Open location code
7JCMX7J9+2XOpenStreetMap ID
node 658497719OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1263370Wikidata ID
Q463526
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Vietnamese—“Matheran” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “মাথেরান”
- Bishnupriya: “মাথেরান”
- Cebuano: “Mātherān”
- Chinese: “Matheran”
- Chinese: “马泰兰”
- Dutch: “Matheran”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ماتيران”
- Finnish: “Matheran”
- French: “Matheran”
- German: “Matheran”
- Gujarati: “માથેરાન”
- Hindi: “माथेरान”
- Irish: “Matheran”
- Italian: “Matheran”
- Japanese: “マテラン”
- Kashmiri: “متھے رن”
- Malagasy: “Matheran”
- Malay: “Matheran”
- Malayalam: “മാഥേരാൻ”
- Marathi: “माथेरान”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Matheran”
- Newari: “माथेरान”
- Polish: “Matheran”
- Russian: “Матхеран”
- Sanskrit: “माथेरान्”
- Spanish: “Matheran”
- Swedish: “Mātherān”
- Tamil: “மாதேரான்”
- Tamil: “மாத்தேரான்”
- Urdu: “ماتھیران”
- Urdu: “متھے رن”
- Vietnamese: “Matheran”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Matheran”. Photo: Knipptang, CC BY-SA 3.0.