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Chanakyapuri

Chanakyapuri is a neighbourhood and diplomatic enclave established in the 1950s in New Delhi, India.

Chanakyapuri
Chanakyapuri · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Chanakyapuri is a neighbourhood and diplomatic enclave established in the 1950s in New Delhi, India. It is also a sub-division of the New Delhi district and plays host to the majority of foreign embassies in New Delhi. Chanakyapuri, meaning "city of Chanakya", is named after Chanakya, an ancient Indian diplomat, philosopher, politician, military strategist and advisor to Maurya Emperor Chandragupta Maurya.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Chanakyapuri

Airports
Indira Gandhi (DEL), 8 km · Noida (DXN), 63 km · Maharaja Agrasen (HSS), 154 km
  • Gautam Buddha Nagar → Chanakyapuri
    47 km · quickest by road, 1h 26m · ₹390–490
  • Hisar → Chanakyapuri
    156 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · ₹1,130–1,410
  • Chandigarh → Chanakyapuri
    241 km · quickest by road, 4h 14m · ₹1,760–2,200
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No local-transport research exists yet for Chanakyapuri

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Chanakyapuri. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inIf driving by car or in a taxi/auto-rickshaw, Mandi Road is the main road of South Delhi and is close to most major attractions.

From Wikivoyage: Delhi/South, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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Around it

Next door to Chanakyapuri

Chanakyapuri is 5 km from New Delhi, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.