Pelling
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Pelling
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Hill Station
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- India Sikkim#India3
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Sikkim, India
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Sikkim
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Gyalshing
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 1800
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2001
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.demographics_type1
- Languages
- Settlement.demographics1_title1
- Official
- Settlement.demographics1_title2
- Additional official
- Settlement.timezone1
- IST
- Settlement.utc_offset1
- +5:30
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6 sectionsContents
- Location and surroundings
- Tourist attractions
- Pelling Helipad
- Education Institutes
- References
- External links
thumb|Sunrise over the Mount Kangchenjunga at Pelling, Sikkim, India.
Pelling (པད་གླིང་། ) is a hill station in ( རྒྱལ་ཤིང་རྫོང་།) Gyalshing district of Sikkim, India. Pelling is nestled at an altitude of . The town is located at a distance of 10 km from Gyalshing city, the district headquarters and 131 km from Gangtok. A regular bus service connects the two towns. However, with the influx of tourists, the region is undergoing a metamorphosis, with the roads being repaired and hotels being set up.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pelling” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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