Local time
Wed, 11:06 PM GMT+5:30Asia/KolkataCityCapital
New Delhi
28.60° N, 77.20° E
- Population
- 317,797
- Population from Natural Earth (POP_MAX). The source does not state which year the figure belongs to, so no year is shown.
- Population rank
- 119 of 213
- Rank by Natural Earth population among the 213 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.
- Founded
- 1911
- Year of founding from Wikidata (P571). Only the year is known, not the day; a city whose sources give more than one year shows no row.
- Elevation
- 216 m
- Elevation above sea level from Wikidata (P2044), rounded to the metre. A city whose sources give two different elevations shows no row.
- Area
- 43 km²
- Total area from Wikidata (P2046). Where two statements differ by less than half a percent the smaller is shown; a larger disagreement (land area against total area, say) shows no row.
- Administrative unit
- New Delhi tehsil
- The administrative unit Wikidata files this city under (P131), one level below the state. The state itself is shown on its own row and is not repeated here; a city filed under more than three units shows no row at all.
- 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
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