New Delhi district
New Delhi district is an administrative district of Delhi in India.
New Delhi district is an administrative district of Delhi in India. Its district headquarters is New Delhi. It is named after New Delhi, the capital of India, located within its borders, and is in its entirety a part of the Delhi megacity. The district was founded in 1997, but its borders significantly changed during the redrawing of the Delhi districts in 2012.
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Worth seeing in and around New Delhi district
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.
- 01Lok Sabha
The Lok Sabha, also known as the House of the People, is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of India, where the upper house is Rajya Sabha. Members of the Lok Sabha are elected by an adult universal suffrage and a first-past-the-post system to represent their respective constituencies, and they hold their seats for five years or until the body is dissolved by the president of India on the advice of the union council of ministers.
400 m · Lower house of Indian Legislature · Wikipedia - 02Rajya Sabha
The Rajya Sabha, also known as Council of States, is the upper house of the Parliament of India, of which the Lok Sabha is the lower house. The Rajya Sabha represents India's federal units – the states and union territories.
300 m · Upper house of Indian Legislature · Wikipedia - 03National Museum
The National Museum, New Delhi, also known as the National Museum of India, is one of the largest museums in India. Established in 1949, it holds a variety of articles ranging from the pre-historic era to modern works of art.
1 km · National and art museum in New Delhi, India · Wikipedia - 04Gandhi Smriti
Gandhi Smriti, formerly known as Birla House or Birla Bhavan, is a museum dedicated to Mahatma Gandhi, situated on Tees January Road, formerly Albuquerque Road, in New Delhi, India. It is the location where Mahatma Gandhi spent the last 144 days of his life and was assassinated on 30 January 1948.
1.5 km · museum and death place of Mahatma Gandhi, in New Delhi, India · Wikipedia - 05Laxminarayan Temple
Laxminarayan Temple, commonly known as Birla Mandir, is a Hindu temple in New Delhi, India. Dedicated to Lakshmi and Vishnu in the dual representation of Lakshmi Narayana, it was built by the industrialist Jugal Kishore Birla between 1933 and 1939 and inaugurated by Mahatma Gandhi.
2.3 km · Hindu temple in Delhi · Wikipedia - 06Gurudwara Bangla Sahib
Gurdwara Bangla Sahib is one of the most prominent Sikh gurdwaras, or Sikh house of worship, in Delhi, India, and known for its association with the eighth Sikh Guru, Guru Har Krishan, as well as the holy pond inside its complex, known as the "Sarovar." Originally a bungalow of Raja Jai Singh I of Amber, it was rebuilt as a small shrine by Sikh General Sardar Baghel Singh in 1783. In the same year, there was reconstruction of nine Sikh shrines in Delhi.
1.4 km · gurdwara in Delhi, India · Wikipedia - 07National Museum of Natural History
The National Museum of Natural History was a museum focusing on nature, located in New Delhi, India. Established in 1972 and opened in 1978, the museum functioned under the Ministry of Environment and Forests of the Government of India.
2.6 km · museum in New Delhi, India · Wikipedia - 08Purana Qila
Purana Qila is one of the oldest forts in Delhi, India. It was built by the second Mughal Emperor Humayun and Surid Sultan Sher Shah Suri.
3.5 km · building in India · Wikipedia - 09National Gallery of Modern Art
The National Gallery of Modern Art is the premier art gallery under the Indian Ministry of Culture. The main museum at Jaipur House in New Delhi was established on 29 March 1954 by the Government of India, with subsequent branches at Mumbai and Bangalore.
2.5 km · premier art gallery under Ministry of Culture, Government of India · Wikipedia - 10Lodi Gardens
Lodi Gardens is a city park situated in New Delhi. Spread over 90 acres, it contains Muhammad Shah's tomb, the tomb of Sikandar Lodi, the Shisha Gumbad and the Bara Gumbad.
2.4 km · city park in India · Wikipedia
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Getting to New Delhi district
- Airports
- Indira Gandhi (DEL), 13 km · Noida (DXN), 62 km · Maharaja Agrasen (HSS), 156 km
- Stations
- New Delhi railway station, 3.3 km · Safdarjung Airport, 3.3 km
- Gautam Buddha Nagar → New Delhi district44 km · quickest by road, 1h 19m · ₹360–445
- Hisar → New Delhi district145 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · ₹1,030–1,290
- Chandigarh → New Delhi district243 km · quickest by road, 4h 11m · ₹1,750–2,190
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for New Delhi district
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 New Delhi district. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inYou can also take prepaid rickshaws and taxis from the plaza outside the main entrance.
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Next door to New Delhi district
New Delhi district is 1 km from New Delhi, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Raisina Hillexclusive area of the Indian government in New Delhi400 m
- Paharganjhuman settlement in Delhi, India3.1 km
- Lutyens' Delhineighborhood in New Delhi, Delhi, India2.9 km