Landour

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Settlement.name: Landour
Settlement.other_name: Landaur
Settlement.settlement_type: town
Settlement.image_caption: From top, left to right: Bandarpunch from Landour; Landour Himalayan View; Landour Community Hospital; St. Paul's Church, Landour
Settlement.pushpin_map: India Uttarakhand#India
Settlement.pushpin_map_caption: Location in Uttarakhand, India
Settlement.subdivision_type: Country
Settlement.subdivision_type1: State
Settlement.subdivision_name1: Uttarakhand
Settlement.subdivision_type2: District
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Dehradun
Settlement.unit_pref: Metric
Settlement.population_total: 3500
Settlement.population_as_of: 2001
Settlement.population_density_km2: auto
Settlement.demographics_type1: Languages
Settlement.demographics1_title1: Official
Settlement.demographics1_info1: Hindi

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postal code: 248179

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Contents

History
Origin as British sanatorium
European legacy
Americans in the Himalaya
Geography
Topology
Climate
Ecology
Flora
Fauna
Demographics
Census
Ethnic mix
Notable residents
Administration
Civic administration
Cantonment
Economy
Education
Tourism
Issues
Deforestation
Non-biodegradable refuse
In popular media
References

Landour, a small cantonment town contiguous with Mussoorie, is about from the city of Dehradun in Dehradun district in the northern state of Uttarakhand in India. 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. 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.

== History ==