Mahatma Gandhi District
The Mahatma Gandhi District is an ethnic enclave in Houston, Texas, United States, named after Mahatma Gandhi, consisting predominantly of Indian and Pakistani restaurants and shops and having a large South Asian population.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Neighborhood
- Description: ethnic enclave in Houston, Texas, United States
- Also known as: “Hillcroft” and “Mahatma Gandhi District, Houston”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Margaret Long Wisdom High School and Jane Long Academy.
Margaret Long Wisdom High School
School
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Margaret Long Wisdom High School, formerly Robert E. Lee High School, is a publicly funded secondary school located in Southwest Houston, Texas, United States 77057.
Jane Long Academy
School
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Jane Long Academy, formerly Jane Long Middle School, is a public grade 6–12 middle and high school in Sharpstown, Houston, Texas. It is a part of the Houston Independent School District.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Briargrove and Bellaire.
Briargrove
Neighborhood
Briargrove is a neighborhood in Houston, Texas, United States, near Uptown Houston. Briargrove was established in the 1950s with one-story ranch homes built in the 1950s and 1960s. Briargrove is situated 2 miles north of Mahatma Gandhi District.
Bellaire
Town
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Bellaire is a city in southwestern Harris County, Texas, United States, within the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the city population was 17,202. Bellaire is situated 2½ miles southeast of Mahatma Gandhi District.
Uptown Houston
Photo: Agsftw, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Uptown is in Houston, though nobody in Houston has used that term since about 1970 - it's generally referred to as "The Galleria", or to motorists at I-610 and U.S. 59 as the highway to avoid.
Mahatma Gandhi District
- Categories: ethnic enclave and locality
- Location: Harris County, Texas, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
29.7201° or 29° 43′ 12″ northLongitude
-95.49641° or 95° 29′ 47″ westOpen location code
76X6PGC3+2COpenStreetMap ID
way 990946438OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhoodWikidata ID
Q14914641
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Hindi to Telugu—“Mahatma Gandhi District” goes by many names.
- Hindi: “महात्मा गाँधी जिला”
- Malayalam: “മഹാത്മാ ഗാന്ധി ജില്ല”
- Telugu: “మహాత్మా గాంధీ జిల్లా”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Gulfton and Lamar Terrace.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Masjid Khulafa’a Rashideen and Sanatan Shiv Shakti Mandir.
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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 Wikipedia page “Mahatma Gandhi District”. Photo: The Casual Tellurian, CC BY-SA 4.0.