Namchi
Namchi is the capital of South Sikkim. It resembles Gangtok in many ways, but is considerably more quiet and local in character, spared of the flood of domestic tourists and the catering industry that comes with it.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 5,000 residents
- Description: city in Namchi district, Sikkim, India
- Also known as: “M Cl”
Namchi
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Namchi, South Sikkim, Sikkim, Eastern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
27.1661° or 27° 9′ 58″ northLongitude
88.3652° or 88° 21′ 55″ eastPopulation
5,000Elevation
1,427 metres (4,682 feet)Open location code
7MVC5988+F3OpenStreetMap ID
node 245756401OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1262029Wikidata ID
Q2483862
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Vietnamese—“Namchi” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Namchi”
- Bengali: “নামচি”
- Bishnupriya: “নামচি”
- Bulgarian: “Намчи”
- Cebuano: “Namchi”
- Chinese: “納姆奇”
- Chinese: “纳姆吉”
- Chinese: “纳姆奇”
- Dutch: “Namchi”
- Finnish: “Namchi”
- French: “Namchi”
- Gujarati: “નામચી”
- Hindi: “नामची”
- Hindi: “नाम्ची”
- Italian: “Namchi”
- Kannada: “ನಾಮ್ಚಿ”
- Kashmiri: “نامچی”
- Korean: “남치”
- Ladin: “Namchi”
- Lithuanian: “Namčis”
- Malagasy: “Namchi”
- Malay: “Namchi”
- Malayalam: “നാംചി”
- Marathi: “नामची”
- Nepali: “नाम्ची”
- Newari: “नाम्ची”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Namchi”
- Polish: “Namchi”
- Russian: “Намчи”
- Slovenian: “Namchi”
- Spanish: “Namchi”
- Swedish: “Namchi”
- Tamil: “நாம்ச்சி”
- Telugu: “నాంచి”
- Ukrainian: “Намчі”
- Urdu: “نامچی”
- Vietnamese: “Namchi”
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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 “Namchi”. Photo: Sujay25, CC BY-SA 4.0.