Sikkim
Sikkim in Eastern India, is a mountainous border state in the Himalayan foothills. It is bounded by China, Nepal and Bhutan to its north, west and east respectively, with West Bengal forming its southern border.Photo: Subhrajyoti07, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Gangtok and East Sikkim.
Gangtok
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Gangtok is a bustling, friendly hill station, and the capital of the Himalayan state of Sikkim. The name "Gangtok" is derived from the Tibetan word for 'hillside,' and the city has a population of around 100,000 being a mixture of indigenous Sikkimese and people of Nepalese and Tibetan ancestry.
East Sikkim
Khangchendzonga National Park
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Khangchendzonga National Park is in West Sikkim in northwestern India. It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as West Sikkim and South Sikkim.
West Sikkim
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West Sikkim is a region of Sikkim. The highlight of West Sikkim is the amazing Himalayan treks in the foothills of Mt Kangchenjunga. The rolling mountains also offer some "low altitude" treks.
South Sikkim
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Namchi district is a district of the Indian state of Sikkim. Its headquarters is at Namchi.
North Sikkim
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North Sikkim is a region of Sikkim, comprising the Mangan district. Most of North Sikkim is restricted to travellers and permits are needed to visit these areas.
Sikkim
- Type: state of India with 611,000 residents
- Description: state in northeastern India
- Also known as: “Che-meng-hsiung”, “Demjong”, “Dremojong”, “IN-SK”, “Kingdom of Sikkim”, “Sikhim”, and “State of Sikkim”
- Neighbors: West Bengal
- Location: Eastern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Sikkim” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Sikkim”
- Afrikaans: “Sikkim”
- Albanian: “Sikkim”
- Amharic: “ሲኪም”
- Angika: “सिक्किम”
- Arabic: “سِكِم”
- Arabic: “سيكيم”
- Aragonese: “Sikkim”
- Armenian: “Սիկկիմ”
- Assamese: “ছিক্কিম”
- Asturian: “Sikkim”
- Azerbaijani: “Sikkim”
- Balinese: “Sikkim”
- Basque: “Sikkim”
- Belarusian: “Сікім”
- Belarusian: “Сыкім”
- Bengali: “সিকিম”
- Bengali: “সিক্কিম”
- Bhojpuri: “सिक्किम प्रदेश”
- Bhojpuri: “सिक्किम प्रांत”
- Bhojpuri: “सिक्किम राज्य”
- Bhojpuri: “सिक्किम”
- Bishnupriya: “সিকিম”
- Bosnian: “Sikkim”
- Breton: “Sikkim”
- Bulgarian: “Сиким”
- Burmese: “ဆစ်ကင်ပြည်နယ်”
- Catalan: “Sikkim”
- Cebuano: “Sikkim”
- Central Bikol: “Sikkim”
- Central Kurdish: “سیکیم”
- Chechen: “Сикким”
- Chinese: “Sikkim”
- Chinese: “錫金”
- Chinese: “錫金邦”
- Chinese: “锡金”
- Chinese: “锡金邦”
- Chuvash: “Сикким”
- Croatian: “Sikkim”
- Czech: “Sikkim”
- Danish: “Sikkim”
- Dhivehi: “ސިއްކީމް”
- Dimli (individual language): “Sikkim”
- Dotyali: “सिक्किम”
- Dutch: “Sikkim”
- Esperanto: “Sikimo”
- Estonian: “Sikkim”
- Fiji Hindi: “Sikkim”
- Finnish: “Sikkim”
- French: “Sikkim”
- Galician: “Sikkim”
- Georgian: “სიკიმი”
- German: “Bundesstaat Sikkim”
- German: “Sikkim”
- Goan Konkani: “Sikkim”
- Goan Konkani: “सिक्किम”
- Greek: “Σικκίμ”
- Greek: “Σίκκιμ”
- Gujarati: “સિક્કિમ”
- Hausa: “Sikkim”
- Hebrew: “סיקים”
- Hindi: “सिक्किम”
- Hungarian: “Szikkim”
- Icelandic: “Sikkim”
- Ido: “Sikkim”
- Indonesian: “Sikkim”
- Irish: “Sikkim”
- Italian: “Sikkim”
- Japanese: “シッキム州”
- Javanese: “Sikkim”
- Kannada: “ಸಿಕ್ಕಿಂ”
- Kashmiri: “سککم”
- Kashmiri: “سِکِم”
- Kazakh: “Сиккім”
- Kirghiz: “Сиккім”
- Korean: “시킴 주”
- Korean: “시킴주”
- Ladin: “Sikkim”
- Latin: “Sikkim”
- Latvian: “Sikima”
- Literary Chinese: “錫金”
- Lithuanian: “Sikimas”
- Macedonian: “Сиким”
- Maithili: “सिक्किम”
- Malagasy: “Sikkim”
- Malay: “Sikkim”
- Malayalam: “സിക്കിം”
- Manipuri: “ꯁꯤꯛꯀꯤꯝ”
- Marathi: “सिक्किम”
- Marathi: “सिक्कीम”
- Mazanderani: “سیکیم”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Sikkim”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sikkim”
- Mingrelian: “სიკიმი”
- Mongolian: “Сикким”
- Nepali: “सिक्किम”
- Newari: “सिक्किम”
- Northern Frisian: “Sikkim”
- Northern Luri: “سیکیم”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sikkim”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Sikkim”
- Norwegian: “Sikkim”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Sikkim”
- Oriya: “ସିକିମ”
- Oromo: “Sikkim”
- Ossetian: “Сикким”
- Pampanga: “Sikkim”
- Panjabi: “ਸਿੱਕਮ”
- Persian: “سیکیم”
- Polish: “Sikkim”
- Portuguese: “Siquim”
- Pushto: “سيکيم”
- Romanian: “Sikkim”
- Russian: “Сикким”
- Sanskrit: “सिक्किमराज्यम्”
- Santali: “ᱥᱤᱠᱠᱤᱢ”
- Scots: “Sikkim”
- Serbian: “Сиким”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sikim”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sikkim”
- Sindhi: “سڪم”
- Sinhala: “සිකිම්”
- Slovak: “Sikkim”
- Slovenian: “Sikim”
- Slovenian: “Sikkim”
- Somali: “Sikkim”
- South Azerbaijani: “سیکیم”
- Spanish: “Sikkim”
- Swahili: “Sikkim”
- Swedish: “Sikkim”
- Tagalog: “Sikkim”
- Tajik: “Сикким”
- Tamil: “சிக்கிம்”
- Tatar: “Сикким”
- Tatar: “Сиккім”
- Telugu: “సిక్కిం”
- Thai: “รัฐสิกขิม”
- Tibetan: “འབྲས་ལྗོངས།”
- Tulu: “ಸಿಕ್ಕಿಂ”
- Turkish: “Sikkim”
- Ukrainian: “Сіккім”
- Upper Sorbian: “Sikim”
- Urdu: “سکم”
- Uzbek: “Sekkim”
- Uzbek: “Sikkim”
- Vietnamese: “Sikkim”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sikkim”
- Welsh: “Sikkim”
- Western Frisian: “Sikkim”
- Western Panjabi: “سکم”
- Wu Chinese: “锡金邦”
- Yoruba: “Sikkim”
- Yue Chinese: “錫金”
- “सिक्किम”
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