Shillong is a hill station and the capital of the Indian state of Meghalaya, nicknamed the Scotland of the East. It takes its name from Lei Shyllong, a deity believed to reside on the nearby Shillong Peak, and served as the capital of undivided Assam until Meghalaya was created on 21 January 1972. At the 2011 census the city had a population of 143,229, with a metropolitan population of 354,759, making it the 330th most populous city in India.
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Source History (High Court of Meghalaya)History page, paragraph on the Shillong permanent benchQuote, History page, paragraph on the Shillong permanent bench
Vide Gauhati High Court (Establishment of Permanent Bench at Shillong) Order 1995, Permanent Bench of the Gauhati High Court at Shillong was established
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1. Shillong (Wikidata)
P1082 (population)Quote, P1082 (population)
population 143,229 (2011)
2. Open-Meteo: Open-Meteo Elevation API: elevation at Shillong coordinates
Open-MeteoJSON elevationQuote, JSON elevation
"elevation": [ 1448.0 ]
3. Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna): World Map of the Koeppen-Geiger Climate Classification, present climate data
Koeppen-Geiger map (Kottek et al., University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna)Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 25.75, 91.75Quote, Koeppen-Geiger-ASCII.txt grid cell 25.75, 91.75
25.75 91.75 Cwa
4. GeoNames: Shillong - GeoNames
GeoNamescities500 record 1256523, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)Quote, cities500 record 1256523, place matched by name within the country (only place of that name in the country)
25.56892 91.88313 P PPLA IN 18 298 1989 143229 1507 Asia/Kolkata
Shillong (Wikipedia)
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Shillong (English:, Khasi: [ʃɨlːɔːŋ]), the capital of Meghalaya, India, is a hill station and the headquarters of the East Khasi Hills district.
- In Group: Cities of Southern Asia (World), Wikipedia lead / Wikidata P17, confirms city and country
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