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Gangtok is located at (coordinates of Gangtok head post office It is in the lower Himalayas at an elevation of 1,650 m (5,410 ft). [ 14 ] The town is on the side of a hill, with "The Ridge", [ 8 ] [ 15 ] a promenade with the Raj Bhawan , the governor 's residence, at one end and the palace, at an altitude of about 1,800 m (5,900 ft), at the other.
The headquarters of the Gangtok district is Gangtok, which is also the state capital. Gangtok is the hub of all administrative activity in the state. The district is bounded by the Pakyong district in the south and southeast, Bhutan in the east, the People's Republic of China in the northeast, Mangan District in the north and Namchi District in ...
Pages in category "Cities and towns in Gangtok district" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. ... This page was last edited on 9 January 2023, ...
Lachen is about 129 kilometres (80 mi) from the capital Gangtok, and can be reached via a six-hour road journey. A short two-day trekking route also connects the Yumthang Valley to Lachen. It has a population of around 1,000. Lachen has its own system of rules and regulations known as Dzumsa. The heads of the Dzumsa are known as Pipon and Gyenbos.
In 2006, the US Dept. of Transportation awarded SR 179 its highest designation within the National Scenic Byways Program: the All-American Road designation, due to the red rock and sandstone formations through which it travels along its 7.5-mile (12.1 km) length within the hills of the Coconino National Forest. The All-American Road designation ...
Rumtek Monastery (Tibetan: རུམ་ཐེག་དགོན་པ་, Wylie: rum theg dgon pa), also called the Dharma Chakra Centre, is a gompa located in the Indian state of Sikkim near the capital Gangtok. It is the seat in exile of the Gyalwang Karmapa, inaugurated in 1966 by the 16th Karmapa.
Channel 3 was the last commercial VHF allocation in Phoenix to be awarded. Prior to the 1948 freeze on new TV applications, there had been one application made, from radio station KTAR, one of the state's largest. In February 1953, however, after the freeze was lifted, a second applicant filed for the channel: the Arizona Television Company.
In 1963, the Mountaineering Institute was established in Gangtok by Indian mountaineer Sonam Gyatso. [3] [4] After the demise of Gyatso in 1968, the institute was renamed Sonam Gyatso Mountaineering Institute. [4] It is currently headed by former Intelligence Bureau (IB) officer Sonam Wangyal as its principal. [5]