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Dhaula Kuan

Dhaula Kuan is a major intersection of roads in Delhi, India.

Dhaula Kuan
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The place

Dhaula Kuan is a major intersection of roads in Delhi, India. The name also now refers to the neighbourhood surrounding the intersection.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Dhaula Kuan

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    National Rail Museum

    The National Rail Museum in Chanakyapuri, New Delhi, displays exhibits on the history of rail transport in India. The museum was inaugurated on 1 February 1977.

    2 km · rail museum in Chanakyapuri, New Delhi · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    South Asian University

    South Asian University is an international university sponsored by the eight Member States of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation. The eight countries are Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.

    2.9 km · international university in India · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Prime Ministers Museum & Library

    Pradhanmantri Sangrahalaya or the Prime Ministers' Museum and Library, is a public museum and library in the Teen Murti Bhavan complex in New Delhi, India. It is curated and managed by the Prime Ministers' Museum and Library Society, an autonomous institution under the aegis of the Ministry of Culture, and is dedicated to chronicling the lives, contributions, and legacies of all prime ministers of India since Independence in 1947.

    3.7 km · museum & library · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Gyarah Murti

    Gyarah Murti is a monument located in New Delhi, India, commemorating the country's struggle for independence under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi. Devi Prasad Roy Choudhury is credited as its sculptor.

    3.4 km · statue in New Delhi · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Buddha Jayanti Park

    Delhi Ridge, sometimes simply called The Ridge, is a ridge in the Northern Aravalli leopard wildlife corridor in the National Capital Territory of Delhi in the New Delhi district, India. It is a northern extension of the ancient Aravalli Range, which is approximately 1.5 billion years old—significantly older than the Himalayas, which are "only" about 50 million years old.

    3 km · park in New Delhi, India · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Uttara Swami Malai Temple

    Uttara Swami Malai Temple, popularly known as Malai Mandir, is a Hindu temple complex in New Delhi, India located on the affluent Palam Marg primarily dedicated to Lord Swaminatha, most revered by the religious Hindus of Tamil and other South Indian community in the city. One can easily reach this temple by metro, nearest metro station is Vasant Vihar which is around 2 km away from there.

    2.9 km · temple in India · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    National Police Memorial

    The National Police Memorial in India commemorates the 34,844 police personnel from all of the central and state police forces in India who have died in the line of duty since the nation's Independence in 1947. Located in New Delhi's Chanakyapuri area, the 6.12 acres memorial consists of a 30-foot tall and 238-tonne heavy black granite central sculpture, a museum and a 'Wall of Valour' bearing the names of all 34,844 police personnel who have died in the line of duty.

    3.3 km · Indian memorial · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Atma Ram Sanatan Dharma College

    Atma Ram Sanatan Dharma College, formerly Sanatan Dharma College, is a co-educational constituent college of the University of Delhi. The college was founded on 3 August 1959, by the Sanatan Dharma Maha Sabha, Delhi.

    300 m · constituent college of the University of Delhi · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Akbar Bhawan

    Akbar Bhawan, formerly the Akbar Hotel, is a building in the Chanakyapuri locality of New Delhi, India which houses the South Asian University and offices of the Government of India's Ministry of External Affairs. Designed by Shiv Nath Prasad in collaboration with Mahendra Raj, it is one of Delhi's best known examples of brutalist architecture and bears semblance to the Unité d'habitation in Marseille, France.

    2.8 km · building in New Delhi, India · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Maitreyi College

    Maitreyi College is a women's college in the South Campus of the University of Delhi, located in Bapu Dham, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi-110021, India. It was established in July 1967 and named after the Vedic sage Maitreyi.

    1.4 km · women's college in New Delhi · Wikipedia

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Getting to Dhaula Kuan

Airports
Indira Gandhi (DEL), 8 km · Noida (DXN), 64 km · Maharaja Agrasen (HSS), 153 km
Stations
Durgabai Deshmukh South Campus metro station, 700 m · Dhaula Kuan metro station, 200 m · Bhikaji Cama Place metro station, 3.5 km · Delhi Cantonment metro station, 2.8 km · Sarojini Nagar metro station, 4 km
  • Gautam Buddha Nagar → Dhaula Kuan
    49 km · quickest by road, 1h 29m · ₹405–500
  • Hisar → Dhaula Kuan
    153 km · quickest by road, 2h 54m · ₹1,110–1,390
  • Chandigarh → Dhaula Kuan
    71 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · ₹670–840
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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 Dhaula Kuan. 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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Next door to Dhaula Kuan

Dhaula Kuan is 6 km from New Delhi, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.