Local time
Sun, 12:33 PM GMT+5:30Asia/KolkataCityCapital
New Delhi
28.60° N, 77.20° E
- Population
- 317,797
- Natural Earth
- Population rank
- 119 of 207
- Rank by Natural Earth population among the 207 cities of India in Terratlasia that have a population figure. Terratlasia does not list every city of India, so this is not a national ranking.
- Time zone
- Asia/Kolkata
Traveler brief
Only what this atlas can source — no hours, prices, visas or safety advice.
Practical bearings for New Delhi, from the same records as the rest of this page.
No places in New Delhi have been recorded yet. The map and the country page still carry its context.
Overview
Name
New Delhi's name has an unknown origin; one theory says it may come from the Hindi word "dehli," meaning "threshold," because the city lies between the Indus and the Ganges Rivers.
Source: CIA World Factbook · 2026-02-01 · text generated from this source, approved by a person