Solan
Solan town is a city in Himachal Pradesh. Located on the Punjab-Himachal Border, Solan is nestled in the Shivalik hills of the Himalayas. Solan has ancient temples and monasteries, and the city has one of the oldest breweries in the country.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Andrew Gray, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Shyamal, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: City with 39,300 residents
- Description: city in Himachal Pradesh
- Also known as: “Solon”
- Postal code: 173212
Places of Interest
Highlights include Solan railway station and Barog railway station.
Solan railway station
Railway station
Photo: Andrew Gray, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Solan Railway Station is a small railway station in Solan district in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. The station lies on UNESCO World Heritage Site Kalka–Shimla Railway.
Barog railway station
Railway station
Photo: Vishmak, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Barog Railway Station is a small railway station in the Solan district in the Indian state of Himachal Pradesh. The station lies on UNESCO World Heritage Site Kalka–Shimla Railway.
Solan
- Category: locality
- Location: Solan, Himachal Pradesh, India, South Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
30.9078° or 30° 54′ 28″ northLongitude
77.1024° or 77° 6′ 9″ eastPopulation
39,300Elevation
1,509 metres (4,951 feet)United Nations Location Code
IN QSLOpen location code
8J2VW452+4WOpenStreetMap ID
node 2360610107OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Solan” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سولان”
- Asturian: “Solan”
- Bengali: “সোলান”
- Bishnupriya: “সোলান”
- Cebuano: “Solan”
- Chinese: “Solan”
- Chinese: “索兰”
- Chinese: “索蘭”
- Dutch: “Solan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سولان”
- Fiji Hindi: “Solan”
- French: “Solan”
- German: “Solan”
- Gujarati: “સોલન”
- Hindi: “सोलन”
- Indonesian: “Solan”
- Italian: “Solan”
- Japanese: “ソラン”
- Kannada: “ಸೊಲಾನ್”
- Kashmiri: “سولان”
- Kashmiri: “سولن”
- Korean: “솔란”
- Ladin: “Solan”
- Malay: “Solan”
- Malayalam: “സോളൻ, ഹിമാചൽ പ്രദേശ്”
- Marathi: “सोलान”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Solan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Solan”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Solan”
- Oriya: “ସୋଲନ”
- Oriya: “ସୋଲାନ, ହିମାଚଳ ପ୍ରଦେଶ”
- Panjabi: “ਸੋਲਨ”
- Persian: “سولان (هیماچال پرادش)”
- Persian: “سولان”
- Polish: “Solan”
- Portuguese: “Solan”
- Russian: “Солан”
- Russian: “Солана”
- Sanskrit: “सोलन्”
- Santali: “ᱥᱚᱞᱟᱱ”
- Slovenian: “Solan”
- Spanish: “Solan”
- Swedish: “Solan”
- Tamil: “சோலன்”
- Tamil: “சோளன்”
- Telugu: “సోలన్”
- Turkish: “Solan”
- Urdu: “سولن”
- Vietnamese: “Solan”
- Western Panjabi: “سولان”
- Western Panjabi: “سولن”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Solan”. Photo: Shyamal, CC BY-SA 3.0.