Shillong

Shillong, the capital of , is often called the Scotland of the East because of its rolling hills.
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  • Type: City with 143,000 residents
  • Description: capital city of Meghalaya, India
  • Also known as: “शिलॉँग”, “शिलॉंग”, “शिलॉङ्ग”, “शिल्लौङ्ग”, “ஷில்லாங்”, and “ഷില്ലോംഗ്”

Shillong

Latitude
25.576° or 25° 34′ 34″ north
Longitude
91.8828° or 91° 52′ 58″ east
Population
143,000
Elevation
1,507 metres (4,944 feet)
IATA airport code
SHL
UN/LOCODE
IN SHL
Open location code
7MQHHVGM+94
Open­Street­Map ID
node 245735780
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
1256523
Wiki­data ID
Q207752
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In Other Languages

From Angika to Yue Chinese—“Shillong” goes by many names.
  • Angika: “शिलांग”
  • Arabic: “شيلونغ”
  • Aragonese: “Shillong”
  • Armenian: “Շիլոնգ”
  • Assamese: “শ্বিলং”
  • Asturian: “Shillong”
  • Basque: “Shillong”
  • Belarusian: “Шылонг”
  • Bengali: “শিলং”
  • Bhojpuri: “शिलांग”
  • Bishnupriya: “শিলং”
  • Bulgarian: “Шилонг”
  • Burmese: “ရှီလွန်မြို့”
  • Catalan: “Shillong”
  • Cebuano: “Shillong”
  • Chechen: “Шиллонг”
  • Chinese: “西隆”
  • Czech: “Šilaung”
  • Czech: “Šillong”
  • 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”
  • Hungarian: “Shillong”
  • Indonesian: “Shillong”
  • Irish: “Shillong”
  • Italian: “Shillong”
  • Japanese: “シロン”
  • Kannada: “ಶಿಲ್ಲಾಂಗ್”
  • Kashmiri: “شِلانگ”
  • Kashmiri: “شِلُونگ”
  • Kazakh: “Шиллонг”
  • Korean: “실롱”
  • Ladin: “Shillong”
  • Latvian: “Šilonga”
  • Lithuanian: “Šilongas”
  • Magahi: “शिलाङ्ग”
  • Maithili: “शिलोङ्ग”
  • Malagasy: “Shillong”
  • Malay: “Shillong”
  • Malayalam: “ഷില്ലോങ്ങ്”
  • Manipuri: “ꯁꯤꯜꯂꯣꯡ”
  • Marathi: “शिलाँग”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Shillong”
  • Mingrelian: “შილონგი”
  • Nepali: “शिलोंग”
  • Nepali: “सिलोङ”
  • Northern Frisian: “Shillong”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Shillong”
  • Norwegian: “Shillong”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “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”
  • Santali: “ᱥᱤᱞᱚᱝ”
  • Scots: “Shillong”
  • Serbian: “Šilong”
  • Serbian: “Шилонг”
  • Sindhi: “شيلانگ”
  • Sinhala: “ශිලොන්ග්”
  • Slovenian: “Shillong”
  • Spanish: “Shillong”
  • Swedish: “Shillong”
  • Sylheti: “ꠡꠤꠟꠋ”
  • Tajik: “Шиллонг”
  • Tamil: “சில்லாங்”
  • 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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