Garhwal
Dehradun
Rishikesh

Rishikesh

Rishikesh is a small town in the northern state of , . Scenically located where the Ganges River comes down from the Himalayas, Rishikesh catapulted to Western fame when the Beatles dropped by for a visit to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's ashram.
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  • Type: Town with 66,400 residents
  • Description: city in Uttarakhand, India
  • Also known as: “Hrishikesh”, “Rikhikesh”, and “Yoga Capital of the World”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Rishikesh railway station and Yog Nagari Rishikesh railway station.

Railway station
, station code RKSH, is a railway terminal station serving the city of Rishikesh in the Indian state of . It lies on Northern railway network zone of Indian Railways.

Railway station
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is a railway station serving the city of Rishikesh in the Indian state of . It lies in the Northern railway network zone of Indian Railways.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rajaji National Park and Muni Ki Reti.

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is in the region of in the region of . It has been named as the second tiger reserve in Uttarakhand after the Corbett Tiger Reserve.

Suburb
Photo: Ajay Tallam, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a town and a municipal council in in the Indian state of . It lies close to the pilgrimage town of Rishikesh and is known for its ashrams, including the Divine Life Society of Sivananda Saraswati.

Hamlet
is a town in Dehradun district in the state of , located close to the pilgrimage town of Rishikesh. It is most known as the factory township of Indian Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Limited, Rishikesh plant, a Government of India… is situated 4½ km south of Rishikesh.

Rishikesh

Latitude
30.1087° or 30° 6′ 31″ north
Longitude
78.2916° or 78° 17′ 30″ east
Population
66,400
Elevation
361 metres (1,184 feet)
Open location code
8J2W475R+FJ
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3735821429
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1258128
Wiki­data ID
Q502141
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yakut—“Rishikesh” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ريشيكيش”
  • Asturian: “Rishikesh”
  • Belarusian: “Рышыкеш”
  • Bengali: “ঋষিকেশ”
  • Bhojpuri: “ऋषिकेश”
  • Bhojpuri: “योग के राजधानी”
  • Bhojpuri: “रिसिकेस”
  • Bhojpuri: “हृषिकेश”
  • Bishnupriya: “ঋষিকেশ”
  • Bulgarian: “Ришикеш”
  • Cebuano: “Rishīkesh”
  • Chinese: “Rishikesh”
  • Chinese: “瑞詩凱詩”
  • Chinese: “瑞诗凯诗”
  • Chinese: “里希盖什”
  • Czech: “Rišikéš”
  • Dotyali: “ऋषिकेश”
  • Dutch: “Rikisesh”
  • Dutch: “Rishikesh”
  • Esperanto: “Riŝikeŝ”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Rishikesh”
  • Finnish: “Rishikesh”
  • French: “Rishikesh”
  • German: “Rishikesh”
  • German: “Rishīkesh”
  • Greek: “Παγκόσμια Πρωτεύουσα της Γιόγκας”
  • Greek: “Ρίσικες”
  • Greek: “Χρίσικες”
  • Gujarati: “ઋષિકેશ”
  • Hebrew: “רישיקש”
  • Hindi: “ऋषिकेश”
  • Hungarian: “Risikés”
  • Indonesian: “Rishikesh”
  • Italian: “Rishikesh”
  • Japanese: “リシケーシュ”
  • Kannada: “ರಿಷಿಕೇಶ”
  • Kannada: “ಹೃಷಿಕೇಶ”
  • Kashmiri: “رشی کیش”
  • Kashmiri: “رِشیکیش”
  • Korean: “리시케시”
  • Lithuanian: “Rišikešas”
  • Maithili: “ऋषिकेश”
  • Maithili: “ॠषिकेश”
  • Malagasy: “Rishikesh”
  • Malay: “Rishikesh”
  • Malayalam: “Rishikesh”
  • Malayalam: “ഋഷികേശ്”
  • Marathi: “ऋषिकेश”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Rishikesh”
  • Nepali: “ऋषिकेश”
  • Nepali: “ॠषिकेश”
  • Newari: “हृषीकेशः”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Rishikesh”
  • Norwegian: “Rishikesh”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Rishikesh”
  • Oriya: “ଋଷିକେଶ”
  • Pampanga: “Rishikesh”
  • Panjabi: “ਰਿਸ਼ੀਕੇਸ਼”
  • Persian: “ریشیکش”
  • Polish: “Rishikesh”
  • Portuguese: “Rishikesh”
  • Romanian: “Rishikesh”
  • Russian: “Hrishikesh”
  • Russian: “Rishikesh”
  • Russian: “Ришикеш”
  • Sanskrit: “हृषीकेशः”
  • Santali: “ᱨᱤᱥᱤᱠᱮᱥ”
  • Spanish: “Rishikesh”
  • Swedish: “Rishikesh”
  • Swiss German: “Rishikesh”
  • Tamil: “ரிசிகேசு”
  • Tamil: “ரிஷிகேஷ்”
  • Tatar: “Ришикеш”
  • Telugu: “ఋషీకేశ్”
  • Telugu: “రిషికేశ్”
  • Telugu: “రిషీకేష్”
  • Thai: “ฤษีเกศ”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Rishikesh”
  • Tuvinian: “Ришикеш”
  • Ukrainian: “Рішикеш”
  • Ukrainian: “Рішікеш”
  • Urdu: “رشی کیش”
  • Vietnamese: “Rishikesh”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Rishikesh”
  • Yakut: “Ришикеш”
  • “ऋषिकेश”

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