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Landour
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From top, left to right: Bandarpunch from Landour; Landour Himalayan View; Landour Community Hospital; St. Paul's Church, Landour | |
  Landour Location in Uttarakhand, India  Landour Landour (India) | |
| 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]
- ^ http://www.whereincity.com/india/pincode/uttarakhand/dehradun.htm
- ^ "Man on the mountain - Times of India". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 24 December 2012. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
- ^ Jalil, Rakhshanda (14 July 2012). "Mussoorie blues". The Hindu. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
- ^ "History – LANDOUR CANTONMENT BOARD". landour.cantt.gov.in. Retrieved 28 October 2023.