Gyalshing district
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Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- Sikkim
- Headquarters
- Gyalshing or Geyzing
- District collector dc
- Smt Yishey D. Yongda
- Total
- 71,675
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30 ( IST )
- Iso 3166 code
- IN-SK
- Vehicle registration
- SK-02, SK-06
- Website
- gyalshing .nic .in
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- district of India
- Part of
- Sikkim
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Sikkim
- Capital
- Gyalshing
- Population
- 136435
- Area
- 1166
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Shares border with
- Darjeeling district
- Official website
- www.sikkim.gov.in
- Image
- Rabdentse Palace, Sikkim, India.jpg
- Households
- 28023
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- Commons category
- Gyalshing district
- topic's main category
- Category:Gyalshing district
- male population
- 70238
- female population
- 66197
- urban population
- 5248
- rural population
- 131187
- literate population
- 93432
- illiterate population
- 43003
- short name
- WDT
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Gyalshing district or Geyzing district is a district of the Indian state of Sikkim. Its headquarter is Geyzing, also known as Gyalshing. The district is a favourite among trekkers due to the high elevations. Other important towns include Pelling and Yuksom. Local people also call it as Pallo-Sikkim and Sano-Sikkim commonly.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gyalshing district” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.