Landour
Landaur | |
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town | |
Coordinates: 30°28′N 78°06′E / 30.47°N 78.10°E | |
Country | India |
State | Uttarakhand |
District | Dehradun |
Population (2001) | |
• Total | 3,500 |
Languages | |
• Official | Hindi, Garhwali |
Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
PIN | 248179 |
Vehicle registration | UK |
Website | uk |
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Landour, a small cantonment town contiguous with Mussoorie, is about 35 km (22 mi) from the city of Dehradun in Dehradun district in the northern state of Uttarakhand in India.[2] The twin towns of Mussoorie and Landour, together, are a well-known British Raj-era hill station in northern India. Mussoorie-Landour was widely known as the "Queen of the Hills". The name Landour is drawn from Llanddowror, a village in Carmarthenshire in southwest Wales.[3] During the Raj, it was common to give nostalgic English, Scottish, Welsh or Irish names to one's home (or even to British-founded towns), reflecting one's ethnicity. Names drawn from literary works were also common, as from those by Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson and many others.[4]