Sikkim

Sikkim in , is a mountainous border state in the Himalayan foothills. It is bounded by , and to its north, west and east respectively, with forming its southern border.
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Top destinations: Gangtok and East Sikkim.

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is a bustling, friendly hill station, and the capital of the Himalayan state of Sikkim.

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is a region of Sikkim.

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is in in northwestern .

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Places to explore: West Sikkim and South Sikkim.

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is a region of Sikkim.

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Namchi district is a district of the state of Sikkim.

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is a region of Sikkim, comprising the Mangan district.

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”, “State of Sikkim”, “सिक्किम प्रदेश”, “सिक्किम प्रांत”, and “सिक्किम राज्य”
  • Neighbors:
  • Location: , , ,
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Latitude of center
27.75° or 27° 45′ north
Longitude of center
88.5° or 88° 30′ east
Population
611,000
Elevation
5,057 metres (16,591 feet)
Abbreviation
“SK”
Geo­Names ID
1256312
Wiki­data ID
Q1505
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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”
  • Bishnupriya: “সিকিম”
  • Bosnian: “Sikkim”
  • Breton: “Sikkim”
  • Bulgarian: “Сиким”
  • Burmese: “ဆစ်ကင်ပြည်နယ်”
  • Catalan: “Sikkim”
  • Cebuano: “Sikkim”
  • Central Bikol: “Sikkim”
  • Central Kurdish: “سیکیم”
  • Chechen: “Сикким”
  • 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”
  • Magahi: “सिक्किम”
  • 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”
  • 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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