Shillong
Shillong, the capital of Meghalaya, is often called the Scotland of the East because of its rolling hills.Photo: Windrider24584, CC BY 3.0.
Photo: Gunjang123, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Shillong
- Type: City with 143,000 residents
- Description: capital city of Meghalaya, India
- Categories: tourism, tourist attraction, and locality
- Location: Mylliem, East Khasi Hills, Meghalaya, North-Eastern India, India, South Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
25.576° or 25° 34′ 34″ northLongitude
91.8828° or 91° 52′ 58″ eastPopulation
143,000Elevation
1,507 metres (4,944 feet)IATA airport code
SHLUnited Nations Location Code
IN SHLOpen location code
7MQHHVGM+94OpenStreetMap ID
node 245735780OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
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In Other Languages
From Angika to Yue Chinese—“Shillong” goes by many names.
- Angika: “शिलांग”
- Arabic: “شيلونج”
- Arabic: “شيلونغ”
- Aragonese: “Shillong”
- Armenian: “Շիլոնգ”
- Assamese: “শ্বিলং”
- Asturian: “Shillong”
- Basque: “Shillong”
- Belarusian: “Шылонг”
- Bengali: “শিলং”
- Bhojpuri: “शिलांग”
- Bishnupriya: “শিলং”
- Bulgarian: “Шиллонг”
- Bulgarian: “Шилонг”
- Burmese: “ရှီလွန်မြို့”
- Catalan: “Shillong”
- Cebuano: “Shillong”
- Chechen: “Шиллонг”
- Chinese: “Shillong”
- Chinese: “西隆”
- Czech: “Shillong”
- Czech: “Šilaung”
- Czech: “Šillong”
- Czech: “Šilong”
- Danish: “Shillong”
- Dotyali: “शिलोङ”
- Dutch: “Shillong”
- Egyptian Arabic: “شيلونج”
- Esperanto: “Shillong”
- Esperanto: “Ŝilongo”
- Fiji Hindi: “Shillong”
- Finnish: “Shillong”
- French: “Shillong”
- Georgian: “შილონგი”
- German: “Shillong”
- Greek: “Σιλόγκ”
- Greek: “Σιλόνγκ”
- Gujarati: “શિલોંગ”
- Hebrew: “שילונג”
- Hindi: “शिलांग”
- Hindi: “शिलॉङ्ग”
- Hungarian: “Shillong”
- Indonesian: “Shillong”
- Irish: “Shillong”
- Italian: “Shillong”
- Japanese: “シロン”
- Kannada: “ಶಿಲ್ಲಾಂಗ್”
- Kashmiri: “شِلانگ”
- Kashmiri: “شِلُونگ”
- Kashmiri: “شیلانگ”
- Kazakh: “Шиллонг”
- Korean: “실롱”
- Ladin: “Shillong”
- Latvian: “Šilonga”
- Lithuanian: “Šilongas”
- Maithili: “शिलोङ्ग”
- Malagasy: “Shillong”
- Malay: “Shillong”
- Malayalam: “Shillong”
- Malayalam: “ഷില്ലോംഗ്”
- Malayalam: “ഷില്ലോങ്ങ്”
- Manipuri: “ꯁꯤꯜꯂꯣꯡ”
- Marathi: “शिलाँग”
- Marathi: “शिलॉँग”
- Marathi: “शिलॉंग”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Shillong”
- Mingrelian: “შილონგი”
- Nepali: “शिलोंग”
- Nepali: “सिलोङ”
- Northern Frisian: “Shillong”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Shillong”
- Norwegian: “Shillong”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Shillong”
- Oriya: “Shillong”
- Oriya: “ଶିଲଂ”
- Ossetian: “Шиллонг”
- Pampanga: “Shillong”
- Panjabi: “ਸ਼ਿਲਾਂਗ”
- Persian: “شیلونگ”
- Polish: “Shillong”
- Portuguese: “Shillong”
- Portuguese: “Xilongue”
- Romanian: “Shillong”
- Russian: “Шиллонг”
- Sanskrit: “शिलांग”
- Sanskrit: “शिलाङ्ग”
- Sanskrit: “शिल्लौङ्ग”
- Santali: “ᱥᱤᱞᱚᱝ”
- Scots: “Shillong”
- Serbian: “Šilong”
- Serbian: “Шилонг”
- Sindhi: “شيلانگ”
- Sinhala: “ශිලොන්ග්”
- Slovenian: “Shillong”
- Spanish: “Shillong”
- Swedish: “Shillong”
- Sylheti: “ꠡꠤꠟꠋ”
- Tajik: “Шиллонг”
- Tamil: “சில்லாங்”
- Tamil: “ஷில்லாங்”
- Telugu: “షిల్లాంగ్”
- Thai: “ไสลอง”
- Turkish: “Shillong”
- Ukrainian: “Шиллонг”
- Ukrainian: “Шиллонґ”
- Urdu: “شیلانگ”
- Vietnamese: “Shillong”
- Waray (Philippines): “Shillong”
- Welsh: “Shillong”
- Western Panjabi: “شیلانگ”
- Wu Chinese: “西隆”
- Yue Chinese: “西隆”
- “शिलांग”
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