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Sikkim East Sikkim Gangtok District, is an administrative district of the Indian state of Sikkim. It was renamed in 2021 as a result of administrative reorganisation of the state, which also saw three subdivisions of the East Sikkim district spawned off as a separate Pakyong district.The headquarters of the Gangtok district is Gangtok, which is also the state capital. • Arabic: شرق سيكيم • Asturian: East Sikkim (distritu) • Asturian: East Sikkim • Asturian: distritu d'East Sikkim • Basque: East Sikkim barrutia • Bengali: পূর্ব সিকিম জেলা • Bhojpuri: पूर्वी सिक्किम जिला • Cebuano: East District • Chinese: Oost-Sikkim • Chinese: 东锡金县 • Chinese: 東錫金縣 • Dutch: East Sikkim • Dutch: Oost-Sikkim • Egyptian Arabic: شرق سيكيم • English: East District • English: East Sikkim district • English: East district • Finnish: Itä-Sikkim • French: District du Sikkim oriental • French: district du Sikkim oriental • German: East Sikkim • Gujarati: પૂર્વ સિક્કિમ જિલ્લો • Hindi: पूर्व सिक्किम जिला • Italian: distretto del Sikkim Orientale • Japanese: 東シッキム県 • Malayalam: ഈസ്റ്റ് സിക്കിം ജില്ല • Marathi: गंगटोक जिल्हा • Marathi: पूर्व सिक्किम जिल्हा • Min Nan Chinese: Oost-Sikkim • Nepali: पूर्व जिल्ला • Nepali: पूर्व सिक्किम • Nepali: पूर्व सिक्किम जिल्ला • Norwegian: East Sikkim • Norwegian Bokmål: East Sikkim • Occitan (post 1500): Districte d'East Sikkim • Occitan (post 1500): Districte del Siquim Oriental • Persian: بخش سکم شرفی • Russian: Восточный Сикким • Sanskrit: पूर्वसिक्किममण्डलम् • Sa...

What most people do not realize is the fact that the contours of the state of Sikkim in any map of India,bears pin-point resemblance with that of a human thumb! The geography of Sikkim is characterized by a vast array of magniloquent knolls that extends from one nook of the state to the other. Amongst all the stupendous hammocks that span across the entire terrain of Sikkim, Kanchenjunga is recorded to be the highest. Thus to overcome this handicap, the residents of Another feature possessed by the Sikkim geography is that a vast number of streams that sped across the terrain of Sikkim gave rise to many exquisite river valleys. The water that runs through most of these streams are generally procured by the snow that crowns the stupendous mountains. These newly formed river valleys are confined to the southern and western fringe of the state. The lower Himalayas are the mountains which comprises of most of the residential areas according to the geography at Sikkim. The most famous lakes that are found here include Gurudongmar, Tsongmo and Khecheopalri lake and many more. Topography Sikkim is nestled on the lap of Himalaya between 27° 5' N to 20° 9' N latitudes and 87° 59' E to 88° 56' E longitudes. Covering 7096 kms, the cross-section of the state measures 100 km from north to south and 60 km from east to west. The topography of Sikkim in south blend with the plain land of West Bengal and gradually gathers height towards the North. So, the altitude of Sikkim ranges from 300...

Kanchenjunga, also spelled Kangchenjunga or Kinchinjunga, Nepali Kumbhkaran Lungur, world’s third highest Kanchenjunga is composed of rocks of Neoproterozoic (late Precambrian) to Ordovician age (i.e., about 445 million to 1 billion years old). The mountain and its glaciers receive heavy snow during the summer monsoon season and a lighter snowfall during the winter. The individual All About Mountains Quiz The name Kanchenjunga is derived from four words of Tibetan origin, usually rendered Kang-chen-dzo-nga or Yang-chhen-dzö-nga and interpreted in Sikkim as the “Five Treasuries of the Great Snow.” The mountain holds an important place in the mythology and religious ritual of the local inhabitants, and its slopes were no doubt familiar to herdsmen and traders for centuries before a rough survey of it was made. The first known map of Kanchenjunga was made by Rinzin Namgyal, one of the pandit (“learned”) explorers of the mid-19th century, who made a circuital sketch. In 1848 and 1849 Mountaineers later explored other faces of the massif. A Bavarian expedition led by Paul Bauer in 1929 and 1931 vainly attempted to climb it from the Zemu side, and in 1930 the German-Swiss climber Günter O. Dyhrenfurth attempted it from the Kanchenjunga Glacier. The greatest height reached during these explorations was 25,263 feet (7,700 metres) in 1931. Fatal accidents on two of these expeditions gave the mountain a reputation for unusual danger and difficulty. No one else attempted to climb it ...

List of Districts in Sikkim Sr. No. District District HQ Population (2011) Growth Sex Ratio Literacy Area (km 2) Density (/km 2) 1 East Sikkim Gangtok 283583 15.73% 873 83.85 954 295 2 North Sikkim Mangan 43709 6.53% 767 78.01 4226 10 3 South Sikkim Namchi 146850 11.65% 915 81.42 750 196 4 West Sikkim Geyzing 136435 10.69% 942 77.39 1166 117 Last Updated on: November 08, 2019