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Vasant Vihar

Vasant Vihar is a diplomatic and residential sub-division of the New Delhi district of Delhi, India.

Vasant Vihar
Vasant Vihar · Biswarup Ganguly
The place

Vasant Vihar is a diplomatic and residential sub-division of the New Delhi district of Delhi, India. It is located near the diplomatic area of Chanakyapuri, and houses over 50 diplomatic missions of foreign countries, including the High Commission of South Africa, and embassy of Argentina.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Vasant Vihar

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
    Jawaharlal Nehru University

    Jawaharlal Nehru University is a public research university located in Delhi, India. It was established in 1969 and named after Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister.

    1.7 km · public central university in New Delhi, India · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

    The Indian Institute of Technology Delhi is a public institute of technology located in Delhi, India. It has its satellite campus in Sonipat, Haryana, and the international campus in Abu Dhabi, UAE. It is one of the 23 Indian Institutes of Technology created to be a Centre of Excellence for India's training, research and development in science, engineering and technology.

    3.7 km · public research university located in Delhi · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    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.

    3.8 km · rail museum in Chanakyapuri, New Delhi · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Hauz Khas Complex

    Hauz Khas Complex in Hauz Khas, South Delhi, India, houses a water tank, an Islamic seminary, a mosque, a tomb, and pavilions built around an urbanized village with a medieval history traced to the 13th century of Delhi Sultanate reign. It was part of Siri, the second medieval city of India of the Delhi Sultanate of Alauddin Khalji Dynasty.

    3.2 km · Site in Delhi, India · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri National Sanskrit University

    Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri National Sanskrit University, formerly Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha, is a central university, located in New Delhi, India.

    2.9 km · central university in New Delhi · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Jagannath Temple

    The Jagannath Temple in Delhi, India is a modern temple built by the Odia community of Delhi dedicated to the Hindu God Jagannath. The temple located in Hauz Khas is famous for its annual Rathyatra festival attended by thousands of devotees.

    4 km · Temple at Delhi · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    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.

    1.3 km · temple in India · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    National University for Educational Planning and Administration

    National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration is a research focused university located in South West Delhi, India. The institute was set up by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India.

    3.8 km · Indian research-focused university · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Indian Institute of Foreign Trade

    Indian Institute of Foreign Trade is a public business school headquartered in South West Delhi, Delhi, India. It has been proposed to be declared as an Institute of National Importance by the Government of India.

    3.3 km · department of commerce Institute GOI · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    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.

    3.8 km · constituent college of the University of Delhi · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Vasant Vihar

Airports
Indira Gandhi (DEL), 6 km · Noida (DXN), 61 km · Maharaja Agrasen (HSS), 155 km
Stations
Terminal 1-IGI Airport metro station, 3.7 km · Durgabai Deshmukh South Campus metro station, 3.7 km · Munirka metro station, 1.5 km · Shankar Vihar metro station, 1.8 km · Vasant Vihar metro station, 200 m
  • Gautam Buddha Nagar → Vasant Vihar
    48 km · quickest by road, 1h 29m · ₹395–495
  • Hisar → Vasant Vihar
    155 km · quickest by road, 2h 57m · ₹1,120–1,410
  • Jaipur → Vasant Vihar
    227 km · quickest by road, 4h 12m · ₹1,740–2,170
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Not yet researched

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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 Vasant Vihar. 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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  4. 04
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  5. 05
    LehIN

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Around it

Next door to Vasant Vihar

Vasant Vihar is 9 km from New Delhi, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.