Dehradun (ind)

Dehradun

Dehradun ranks 1,343rd in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind San Salvador, Israel, and Kashiwa. Memorable people born in Dehradun include Mohammed Nadir Shah, Vandana Shiva, and Chandramukhi Basu. Memorable people who died in Dehradun include Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, M. N. Roy, and Anandamayi Ma. Dehradun has been the birth place of many actors and politicians and the death place of many politicians and social activists. Dehradun is located in India.

Dehradun, also known as Dehra Doon, is the capital and the most populous city of the Indian state of Uttarakhand. It is the administrative headquarters of the eponymous district and is governed by the Dehradun Municipal Corporation, with the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly holding its winter sessions in the city as its winter capital. Part of the Garhwal region, and housing the headquarters of its Divisional Commissioner, Dehradun is one of the "Counter Magnets" of the National Capital Region (NCR) being developed as an alternative center of growth to help ease the migration and population explosion in the Delhi metropolitan area and to establish a smart city in the Himalayas. It is the third largest city in the Himalayas after Kathmandu and Srinagar. Read more on Wikipedia