Shimla
Shimla, previously spelt Simla, is the capital of the state of Himachal Pradesh in India. It is a very popular holiday retreat during the summer months and is well known for its Victorian architecture, which is reflected in certain areas of the Mall and the Ridge.
- Type: City with 170,000 residents
- Description: capital of Himachal Pradesh, India
- Also known as: “Queen of Hills”, “Симла”, “Сімла”, “סימלה”, “سيملا”, “क्वीन ऑफ़ हिल्स”, “সিমলা”, “સિમલા”, “ଶିମଳା”, “ସିମଳା”, “ஷிம்லா”, “షిమ్లా”, “ಸಿಮ್ಲಾ”, “ശിംല”, “ഷിംല”, “സിംല”, “സിംല”, and “쉼라”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Shimla railway station and Jakhu Temple.
Shimla railway station
Railway station
Shimla railway station is a railway station in Shimla in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Summer Hill.
Summer Hill
Suburb
Summer Hill is a part of Shimla, the state capital of Himachal Pradesh at a height of 2,123 meters.
Shimla
- Categories: big city and locality
- Location: Shimla Urban, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India, South Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.104° or 31° 6′ 15″ north
Longitude
77.1708° or 77° 10′ 15″ east
Population
170,000
Elevation
2,073 metres (6,801 feet)
IATA airport code
SLV
UN/LOCODE
IN SLV
Open location code
8J3V453C+J8
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Angika to Yue Chinese—“Shimla” goes by many names.
- Angika: “शिमला”
- Arabic: “شيمل”
- Arabic: “شيملا”
- Aragonese: “Shimla”
- Armenian: “Շիմլա”
- Asturian: “Shimla”
- Azerbaijani: “Şimla”
- Bashkir: “Шимла”
- Basque: “Shimla”
- Belarusian: “Шымла”
- Bengali: “শিমলা”
- Bhojpuri: “शिमला”
- Bishnupriya: “শিমলা”
- Bulgarian: “Шимла”
- Burmese: “ဆင်းမလားမြို့”
- Catalan: “Simla”
- Cebuano: “Shimla (kapital sa estado)”
- Cebuano: “Shimla”
- Chechen: “Шимла”
- Chinese: “西姆拉”
- Czech: “Šimla”
- Danish: “Shimla”
- Dotyali: “शिमला”
- Dutch: “Shimla”
- Egyptian Arabic: “شيملا”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مدينه شيملا”
- Esperanto: “Ŝimla”
- Esperanto: “Ŝimlao”
- Fiji Hindi: “Shimla”
- Fijian: “Shimla”
- Finnish: “Shimla”
- French: “Shimla”
- Galician: “Shimla”
- Georgian: “შიმლა”
- German: “Shimla”
- Greek: “Σίμλα”
- Gujarati: “શિમલા”
- Hebrew: “שימלה”
- Hindi: “शिमला”
- Hungarian: “Simla”
- Hungarian: “Simlá”
- Indonesian: “Shimla”
- Irish: “Shimla”
- Italian: “Shimla”
- Japanese: “シムラ”
- Japanese: “シムラー”
- Kannada: “ಶಿಮ್ಲಾ”
- Kashmiri: “شِملا”
- Kashmiri: “شملہ”
- Komering: “Shimla”
- Korean: “심라”
- Ladin: “Shimla”
- Latvian: “Šimla”
- Lithuanian: “Šimla”
- Luxembourgish: “Shimla”
- Magahi: “शिमला”
- Maithili: “शिमला”
- Malagasy: “Shimla”
- Malay: “Shimla”
- Malayalam: “ഷിംല”
- Maltese: “Shimla”
- Marathi: “शिमला”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Shimla”
- Mingrelian: “შიმლა”
- Nepali: “शिमला”
- Nepali: “सिमला”
- Northern Frisian: “Shimla”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Simla”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Simla”
- Norwegian: “Simla”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Shimla”
- Oriya: “ଶିମଲା”
- Ossetian: “Симлæ”
- Pampanga: “Shimla”
- Panjabi: “ਸ਼ਿਮਲਾ”
- Persian: “شیملا”
- Polish: “Shimla”
- Portuguese: “Shimla”
- Portuguese: “Ximelá”
- Romanian: “Shimla”
- Russian: “Шимла”
- Sanskrit: “शिमला”
- Santali: “ᱥᱤᱢᱞᱟ”
- Scots: “Shimla”
- Serbian: “Шимла”
- Sinhala: “ශිම්ලා”
- Slovenian: “Šimla”
- Spanish: “Shimla”
- Swedish: “Shimla”
- Tajik: “Шимла”
- Tamil: “சிம்லா”
- Tatar: “Шимла”
- Telugu: “సిమ్లా”
- Thai: “ชิมลา”
- Thai: “ศิมลา”
- Tulu: “ಶಿಮ್ಲಾ”
- Turkish: “Shimla”
- Ukrainian: “Шімла”
- Urdu: “شملہ”
- Venetian: “Shimla”
- Vietnamese: “Shimla”
- Waray (Philippines): “Shimla”
- Welsh: “Shimla”
- Western Panjabi: “شملا”
- Western Panjabi: “شملہ”
- Wu Chinese: “西姆拉”
- Yue Chinese: “西姆拉”
- “शिमला”
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