Meghalaya

Meghalaya is one of the seven states of . Famous for its high rainfall, subtropical forests and biodiversity, it is abutted by in the north and east and by in the south.
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is a hill station and the capital of Meghalaya, . It is the headquarters of the . is the 330th most populous city in India with a population of 143,229 according to the 2011 census.

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, is a town in district in the state of Meghalaya. The town receives 11,777 mm of rain per year, but that is less than half as much rain as in the days a few decades ago when it was still known as the wettest place on Earth.

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is a village in the of the Meghalaya state in North East India. It is notable for its cleanliness and also was chosen by Discover India magazine as Asia's cleanest village.

Meghalaya

Latitude of center
25.5379° or 25° 32′ 17″ north
Longitude of center
91.2999° or 91° 17′ 60″ east
Population
2,970,000
Elevation
1,504 metres (4,934 feet)
Abbreviation
“ML”
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2240851577
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­state
Geo­Names ID
1263207
Wiki­data ID
Q1195
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In Other Languages

From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Meghalaya” goes by many names.
  • Achinese: “Meghalaya”
  • Amharic: “ሜጋላያ”
  • Angika: “मेघालय”
  • Arabic: “ميغالايا”
  • Arabic: “ميكالية”
  • Arabic: “مَيْكَالِيَة”
  • Aragonese: “Meghalaya”
  • Armenian: “Մեգհալայա”
  • Assamese: “মেঘালয়”
  • Asturian: “Megalaya”
  • Awadhi: “मेघालय”
  • Azerbaijani: “Meghalaya”
  • Azerbaijani: “Meqhalaya”
  • Balinese: “Meghalaya”
  • Basque: “Meghalaya”
  • Belarusian: “Мегхалая”
  • Belarusian: “Мэггалая”
  • Bengali: “মেঘালয়”
  • Bhojpuri: “मेघालय”
  • Bishnupriya: “মেঘালয়”
  • Breton: “Meghalaya”
  • Bulgarian: “Мегхалая”
  • Burmese: “မေဃာလယ”
  • Burmese: “မေဃာလယပြည်နယ်”
  • Catalan: “Meghalaya”
  • Catalan: “Meghālaya”
  • Cebuano: “Meghālaya”
  • Central Bikol: “Meghalaya”
  • Chechen: “Мегхалая”
  • Chechen: “Мегхали”
  • Chinese: “Meghalaya”
  • Chinese: “梅加拉亚邦”
  • Chinese: “梅加拉亞邦”
  • Croatian: “Meghalaya”
  • Czech: “Méghálaj”
  • Czech: “Méghálaja”
  • Danish: “Meghalaya”
  • Dhivehi: “މެގަލާޔާ”
  • Dotyali: “मेघालय”
  • Dutch: “Meghalaya”
  • Esperanto: “Megalajo”
  • Esperanto: “Meghalajo”
  • Estonian: “Meghalaya”
  • Estonian: “Meghālaya”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Meghalaya”
  • Finnish: “Meghalaya”
  • French: “Meghalaya”
  • French: “Meghālaya”
  • Georgian: “მეგჰალაია”
  • German: “Bundesstaat Meghalaya”
  • German: “Meghalaya”
  • Goan Konkani: “Meghalay”
  • Goan Konkani: “मेघालय”
  • Greek: “Μεγκαλάγια”
  • Gujarati: “મેઘાલય”
  • Hausa: “Meghalaya”
  • Hebrew: “מגהלאיה”
  • Hindi: “मेघालय”
  • Hungarian: “Meghálaja”
  • Icelandic: “Meghalaya”
  • Indonesian: “Meghalaya”
  • Irish: “Meghalaya”
  • Italian: “Meghalaya”
  • Italian: “Meghālaya”
  • Japanese: “メーガーラヤ”
  • Japanese: “メーガーラヤ州”
  • Javanese: “Meghalaya”
  • Kannada: “ಮೆಘಾಲಯ”
  • Kannada: “ಮೇಘಾಲಯ”
  • Kashmiri: “میگھالیَہ”
  • Kazakh: “Мегалая”
  • Kirghiz: “Мегалая”
  • Korean: “메갈라야 주”
  • Korean: “메갈라야”
  • Korean: “메갈라야주”
  • Ladin: “Meghalaya”
  • Latin: “Meghalaya”
  • Latvian: “Meghālaja”
  • Lithuanian: “Meghalaja”
  • Macedonian: “Мегалаја”
  • Macedonian: “Мегхалаја”
  • Maithili: “मेघालय”
  • Malay: “Meghalaya”
  • Malayalam: “മേഘാലയ”
  • Manipuri: “ꯃꯦꯘꯥꯂꯌꯥ”
  • Marathi: “मेघालय”
  • Mazanderani: “مگالایا”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Meghalaya”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Meghalaya”
  • Mingrelian: “მეგჰალაია”
  • Mongolian: “Мегалая”
  • Mongolian: “Мегхалая”
  • Nepali: “मेघालय”
  • Newari: “मेघालय”
  • Northern Frisian: “Meghalaya”
  • Northern Luri: “مئگالایا”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Meghalaya”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Meghalaya”
  • Norwegian: “Meghalaya”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Meghalaya”
  • Oriya: “ମେଘାଳୟ”
  • Oromo: “Meghalaya”
  • Ossetian: “Мегхалая”
  • Pampanga: “Meghalaya”
  • Panjabi: “ਮੇਘਾਲਿਆ”
  • Persian: “مگالایا”
  • Polish: “Meghalaya”
  • Portuguese: “Megalaia”
  • Portuguese: “Meghalaya”
  • Pushto: “ميگالايا”
  • Pushto: “مېغالیا”
  • Romanian: “Meghalaya”
  • Russian: “Мегалая”
  • Russian: “Мегхалая”
  • Sanskrit: “मेघालयराज्यम्”
  • Santali: “ᱢᱮᱜᱷᱟᱞᱚᱭ”
  • Scots: “Meghalaya”
  • Serbian: “Мегалаја”
  • Serbian: “Мегхалаја”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Megalaja”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Meghalaya”
  • Sindhi: “ميگهاليا”
  • Sinhala: “මෙඝාලයා”
  • Slovak: “Meghálaj”
  • Slovenian: “Megalaja”
  • Slovenian: “Meghalaya”
  • Somali: “Meghalaya”
  • South Azerbaijani: “مقالایا”
  • Spanish: “Megalaya”
  • Spanish: “Meghalaya”
  • Spanish: “Meghālaya”
  • Swahili: “Meghalaya”
  • Swedish: “Meghalaya”
  • Sylheti: “ꠝꠦꠊꠣꠟꠄ”
  • Tagalog: “Meghalaya”
  • Tajik: “Меғалая”
  • Tamil: “மேகாலயா”
  • Tatar: “Мегалая”
  • Tatar: “Мегһалайя”
  • Telugu: “మేఘాలయ”
  • Thai: “รัฐเมฆาลัย”
  • Tulu: “ಮೇಘಾಲಯ”
  • Turkish: “Meghalaya”
  • Ukrainian: “Мегхалая”
  • Ukrainian: “Меґхалая”
  • Urdu: “میگھالیہ”
  • Uzbek: “Meghalaya”
  • Vietnamese: “Meghalaya”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Meghalaya”
  • Welsh: “Meghalaya”
  • Western Frisian: “Meghalaya”
  • Western Panjabi: “میگھالیا”
  • Western Panjabi: “میگہالیہ”
  • Wu Chinese: “梅加拉亚邦”
  • Yoruba: “Meghalaya”
  • Yue Chinese: “梅加拉亞邦”
  • “मेघालय”

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