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Noida
City in Uttar Pradesh, India

Noida

Noida, short for New Okhla Industrial Development Authority, is a city located in Gautam Buddha Nagar district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

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It is a part of the National Capital Region (NCR). Situated in the floodplain region between the Yamuna and the Hindon rivers, the city was established in 1976, and is regarded as one of the most systematically planned cities in India. It was designed under the NCR planning strategy to decentralise growth from Delhi. The Gautam Buddha Nagar District, which includes the cities of Noida, Greater Noida and YEIDA City contributes, over 10% to the Uttar Pradesh GSDP, more than 2.5 times the state capital district of Lucknow, which contributes 4%.

Get in

Getting to Noida

The easiest way to go to Noida by public transport is to take the Blue Line 3/4 which has numerous stops around the city. The Magenta Line 8 also connects Noida and links Terminal 1D, Indira Gandhi International Airport (DEL IATA). It takes around an hour to travel between DEL and Noida. The other alternatives are DTC (Delhi Transport Corporation) and UPSRTC (Uttar Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation) buses.

See

Worth seeing

A scenic relief from Delhi, Noida is low on traffic and pollution (by Indian standards) and is dotted with parks and statues, none of them particularly noteworthy though. The city has done very well to keep up the green cover and the plantation of trees is done from time to time.

Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Biodiversity Park
  2. 02
    Okhla Bird Sanctuary

    DND Flyway (metro: Okhla Bird Sanctuary 8 ).

  3. 03
    Worlds of Wonder
  4. 04
    Noida Cricket Stadium
  5. 05
    Noida Golf Course
Eat

Where to eat

Brahmaputra Market, This place is flooded with food vendors in the evening, and good veg & non-veg out there, Sector 29. Haldiram, The best quality food with great hygiene @ PVR Spice Mall and also a new Haldiram is open @ Noida electronic city entrance on the left side. Laxmi Coffee House, This is good old South Indian food joint. Cheap and tasty. Brahmaputra Market, Sector 29.

How locals move

Getting around Noida the local way

Share-taxi routes mapped nearby
  • GS-78 GS-78: Govindpuri Metro -> Hamdard Nagar
  • GS-78 GS-78: Hamdard Nagar -> Govindpuri Metro
  • GS-73 GS-73: Okhla Industrial Area -> Tughlakabad Railway Colony
  • GS-73 GS-73: Tughlakabad Railway Colony -> Okhla Industrial Area
  • GS-74 GS-74: Badarpur Border -> Sangam Vihar
  • GS-74 GS-74: Sangam Vihar -> Badarpur Border
  • GS-80 GS-80: DDA Flats Kalkaji -> Nehru Place
  • GS-80 GS-80: Nehru Place → DDA Flats Kalkaji
  • Delhi - Indirapuram
  • Share e-rickshaw: Mangalam → Laxmi Nagar
  • Share e-rickshaw: Laxmi Nagar → Mangalam
  • Share auto: Kala Patthar -> Anand Vihar

OpenStreetMap contributors.

  • Get aroundTaxi, auto-rickshaws and cycle rickshaws are available for short-distance transport.

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

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Sutapa Pal (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.