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Encyclopedia > Dehra Dun

Dehradun (देहरादून) is a capital city of Uttaranchal state of India nestled between the Himalayas and Shivaliks ranges.


The city is home to over 300 schools like The Doon School, St. Joseph's Academy, Welham's School.


The city is the headquarters of the ONGC, with offices of FRI, SOI and also the IMA or the Indian Military Academy is at this place. During World War II, its facilities included an internment camp for Axis nationals. (Heinrich Harrer's escape from it launched his experiences in Tibet.)


Many tourist spots surround this beautiful city, with the hill station Mussorie just 36km away.



State and Union Territory capitals of India

Agartala • Aizawl • Bangalore • Bhopal • Bhubaneshwar • Chandigarh • Chennai (Madras) • Daman • Dehradun • Dispur • Gandhinagar • Gangtok • Hyderabad • Imphal • Itanagar • Jaipur • Kavaratti • Kohima • Kolkata (Calcutta) • Lucknow • Mumbai (Bombay) • New Delhi • Panaji • Patna • Pondicherry • Port Blair • Raipur • Ranchi • Shillong • Shimla • Silvassa • Srinagar • Thiruvananthapuram


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Dehra Dun News (717 words)
DEHRA DUN: The higher Himalayan shrine of Kedarnath was closed for the winter amid religious chants and ceremonial music by the Garhwal Rifles band on Tuesday.
DEHRA DUN: The Uttaranchal Vidhan Sabha passed the Bill to rename the State as Uttarakhand by a voice vote even as the BJP boycotted and the Bahujan Samaj Party abstained from the voting process on Thursday.
DEHRA DUN: Widespread opposition to proposed delimitation of Assembly constituencies in Uttaranchal found an echo in the State Assembly on Tuesday with Trivender Singh Pawar of the Uttarakhand Kranti Dal...
HISTORY (799 words)
In 1842, Dun was attached to Saharanpur district and placed under an officer subordinate to the Collector of the district but since 1871 it is being administered as separate district.
Dehra Dun is distinguished from most other districts in the state by the existence of very large forests chiefly stocked with sal.
The Siwalik (outer and lower ranges of Himalayas) lies at its feet, the outer- scrap of the Himalayas bound it on the north and the scared Ganga and the Yamuna skirt in on the east and the west respectively.
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