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New Delhi
Capital city of India

New Delhi

New Delhi is a city and the capital city of India and a part of the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT).

Plan a trip to New Delhi→From Gautam Buddha Nagar

New Delhi is the seat of all three branches of the Government of India, hosting the Rashtrapati Bhavan, Sansad Bhavan, and the Supreme Court. New Delhi is a municipality within the NCT, administered by the New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC), which covers mostly Lutyens' Delhi and a few adjacent areas. The municipal area is part of a larger administrative district, the New Delhi district.

Get in

Getting to New Delhi

Indira Gandhi International Airport (DEL IATA) is the main arrival point for visitors into New Delhi, and a 20- to 30-minute ride by road from the city. Other airports include Noida (DXN IATA) and Hindon (HDO IATA).

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    New Delhi NR
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    Bikaner House

    Pandara Rd (metro: Central Secretariat 2 6 ).

See

Worth seeing

The main point of interest in New Delhi is the Kartavya Bhavan Area (literally the "House of Duty Area"), the city's central administrative district. Developed by Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker, the district is home to the India Gate (monumental arch for Indian soldiers), the Rashtrapati Bhavan (residence of the President of India), and of course the Kartavya Path (Path of Duty) connecting the two.

Do

Things to do

Take a walk at Connaught Place (CP), the heart of New Delhi. The British-designed colonial equivalent of a shopping mall, it's laid out in two concentric rings divided into blocks, all bursting with shops and lots of pampered pigeons waddling about. Long neglected, the area received an upsurge after the opening of the major Metro junction of Rajiv Chowk under it, and it's going more upmarket by the day.

Eat

Where to eat

If you come from the West, it may be interesting to eat at a fast food restaurant like McDonald's or Burger King. The menus are different and, unlike in the west, very vegetarian friendly - even KFC has a veg option. The best place to go for chaat is the Bengali Market (metro: Mandi House 3/4 6 ) near Connaught Place in the city centre. The restaurants are high quality and the food is great. There are ATMs as well.

How locals move

Getting around New Delhi the local way

Share-taxi routes mapped nearby
  • GS-80 GS-80: DDA Flats Kalkaji -> Nehru Place
  • GS-80 GS-80: Nehru Place → DDA Flats Kalkaji
  • Share e-rickshaw: Mangalam → Laxmi Nagar
  • Share e-rickshaw: Laxmi Nagar → Mangalam
  • Share e-rickshaw: Mayur Vihar 1 → Patparganj Mor
  • Share e-rickshaw: Patparganj Mor → Mayur Vihar 1
  • Share e-rickshaw: Akshardham -> Mangalam
  • GS-15 GS-15: Gandhi Vihar → GTB Nagar
  • GS-15 GS-15: GTB Nagar → Gandhi Vihar
  • GS-97 GS-97: Hauz Khas → South Campus
  • GS-97 GS-97: South Campus → Hauz Khas
  • GS-66 GS-66: GTB Nagar → Nathupura

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  • Get inYou can also take prepaid rickshaws and taxis from the plaza outside the main entrance.

From Wikivoyage: New Delhi, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: U.S. Secretary of Defense Intensity bumped up for Delhi infobox… (Public domain), Wikimedia Commons.