Himachal Pradesh
Shimla district
Shimla Urban

Shimla

Shimla, previously spelt Simla, is the capital of the state of in . 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.
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  • Type: City with 170,000 residents
  • Description: capital of Himachal Pradesh, India
  • Also known as: “Queen of Hills” and “Simla”
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Shimla railway station and Jakhu Temple.

Railway station
Photo: Argenberg, CC BY 4.0.
is a railway station in Shimla in the Indian state of . The station is the terminus of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Kalka–Shimla Railway.

Hindu temple
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is an ancient in Shimla, , India, dedicated to the Hindu deity Lord Hanuman. It is situated at Jakhu Hill, Shimla's highest peak, 2.5 km east of the Ridge at a height of 2,455 m above sea level.

Building
Photo: Manisha jahi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The , formerly known as Viceregal Lodge, is located on the Observatory Hills of Shimla, , . It was formerly the residence of the British Viceroy of India.

Shimla

Latitude
31.1042° or 31° 6′ 15″ north
Longitude
77.171° or 77° 10′ 16″ east
Population
170,000
Elevation
2,073 metres (6,801 feet)
IATA airport code
SLV
United Nations Location Code
IN SLV
Open location code
8J3V453C+M9
Open­Street­Map ID
node 316417040
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1256237
Wiki­data ID
Q83786
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Shimla” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سيملا”
  • Arabic: “شيمل”
  • Arabic: “شيملا”
  • Aragonese: “Shimla”
  • Armenian: “Շիմլա”
  • Asturian: “Shimla”
  • Azerbaijani: “Şimla”
  • Bashkir: “Шимла”
  • Basque: “Shimla”
  • Belarusian: “Сімла”
  • Belarusian: “Шымла”
  • Bengali: “শিমলা”
  • Bengali: “সিমলা”
  • Bhojpuri: “क्वीन ऑफ़ हिल्स”
  • Bhojpuri: “शिमला”
  • Bishnupriya: “শিমলা”
  • Bulgarian: “Шимла”
  • Catalan: “Shimla”
  • Catalan: “Simla”
  • Cebuano: “Shimla (kapital sa estado)”
  • Cebuano: “Shimla”
  • Chechen: “Шимла”
  • Chinese: “Shimla”
  • Chinese: “西姆拉”
  • Czech: “Šimla”
  • Danish: “Shimla”
  • Dotyali: “शिमला”
  • Dutch: “Shimla”
  • Dutch: “Simla”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “شيملا”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مدينه شيملا”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝimla”
  • Esperanto: “Ŝimlao”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Shimla”
  • Fijian: “Shimla”
  • Finnish: “Shimla”
  • French: “Shimla”
  • French: “Simla”
  • Galician: “Shimla”
  • Georgian: “შიმლა”
  • German: “Shimla”
  • Greek: “Σίμλα”
  • Gujarati: “શિમલા”
  • Gujarati: “સિમલા”
  • Hebrew: “סימלה”
  • 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”
  • Kannada: “ಸಿಮ್ಲಾ”
  • Kashmiri: “شِملا”
  • Kashmiri: “شملہ”
  • Komering: “Shimla”
  • Korean: “쉼라”
  • Korean: “심라”
  • Ladin: “Shimla”
  • Latvian: “Šimla”
  • Lithuanian: “Šimla”
  • Luxembourgish: “Shimla”
  • Maithili: “शिमला”
  • Malagasy: “Shimla”
  • Malay: “Shimla”
  • Malayalam: “Shimla”
  • Malayalam: “Simla”
  • Malayalam: “ശിം‌ല”
  • Malayalam: “ഷിം‌ല”
  • Malayalam: “ഷിംല”
  • Malayalam: “സിം‌ല”
  • Malayalam: “സിംല”
  • Maltese: “Shimla”
  • Marathi: “शिमला”
  • Marathi: “सिमला”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Shimla”
  • Mingrelian: “შიმლა”
  • Nepali: “शिमला”
  • Nepali: “सिमला”
  • Northern Frisian: “Shimla”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Shimla”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Simla”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Simla”
  • Norwegian: “Simla”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Shimla”
  • Oriya: “ଶିମଲା”
  • Oriya: “ଶିମଳା”
  • Oriya: “ସିମଳା”
  • Ossetian: “Симлæ”
  • Pampanga: “Shimla”
  • Pampanga: “Simla”
  • Panjabi: “ਸ਼ਿਮਲਾ”
  • Persian: “شیملا”
  • Polish: “Shimla”
  • Polish: “Simla”
  • Portuguese: “Shimla”
  • Portuguese: “Ximelá”
  • Romanian: “Shimla”
  • Russian: “Симла”
  • Russian: “Шимла”
  • Sanskrit: “शिमला”
  • Santali: “ᱥᱤᱢᱞᱟ”
  • Scots: “Shimla”
  • Serbian: “Шимла”
  • Sinhala: “ශිම්ලා”
  • Slovenian: “Šimla”
  • Spanish: “Shimla”
  • Spanish: “Simla”
  • Swedish: “Shimla”
  • Tajik: “Шимла”
  • Tamil: “சிம்லா”
  • Tamil: “ஷிம்லா”
  • Tatar: “Шимла”
  • Telugu: “షిమ్లా”
  • Telugu: “సిమ్లా”
  • Thai: “ชิมลา”
  • Thai: “ศิมลา”
  • Turkish: “Shimla”
  • Ukrainian: “Шимла”
  • 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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