Shillong

Shillong
State :	India
State :	Meghalaya
District :	East Khasi Hills
Location :	25 ° 34 '  N , 91 ° 53'  E Coordinates: 25 ° 34 '  N , 91 ° 53'  E
Height :	1525 m
Inhabitants : -  Agglomeration :	143,007 (2011) 354,325 (2011)

Shillong or Shilong is the capital of the northeast Indian state of Meghalaya . The medium-sized city is located in the Khasi Mountains at an altitude of around 1500 meters and has around 143,000 inhabitants (2011 census). It is the administrative seat of the administrative district of East Khasi Hills and is home to North Eastern Hill University , founded in 1973 , a seismological observatory and the pharmaceutical industry.

Here is the seat of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Shillong , which has been led by the Salesians of Don Bosco since its foundation in 1934 ; the current bishop has been the Indian clergyman Dominic Jala since 1999 . Part of the Don Bosco Center for Indigenous Cultures (DBCIC: Don Bosco Center for Indigenous Cultures ) is the Don Bosco Museum in the Mawlai district, it is considered the largest museum in India in terms of area. The DBCIC includes research, publications, training and animation programs relating to the cultures of northeast India and the surrounding area.

Until the Indian state of Meghalaya was detached from the great Assam in 1972, Shillong was the capital of Assam, expanded by the British East India Company from 1874 as a hill station and then a residential city.

During the monsoons between March and November, Shillong is particularly humid and poor in light; it is located in the area with the world's largest amounts of precipitation (compare the nearby world record location Cherrapunji ).

Shillong
Climate diagram
J F. M. A. M. J J A. S. O N D.     14th   15th 4th     23   17th 7th     53   21st 11     130   23 14th     273   24 15th     468   24 17th     395   24 18th     317   24 18th     294   23 17th     193   22nd 13     39   19th 9     9.2   16 5 Temperature in ° C ,  precipitation in mm Source: WMO

Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Shillong Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 15.3 17.0 21.3 23.4 23.5 23.7 24.0 24.0 23.4 21.7 19.0 16.3 O 21.1 Min. Temperature (° C) 4.4 6.5 10.7 13.8 15.3 17.3 18.0 17.7 16.5 13.3 8.8 5.3 O 12.3 Precipitation ( mm ) 13.6 22.7 52.8 129.8 273.1 468.2 395.1 316.8 294.1 193.0 38.6 9.2 Σ 2,207 Rainy days ( d ) 2.9 3.3 6.9 13.1 21.4 24.2 24.5 23.5 22.1 12.5 4.4 2.1 Σ 160.9 Source: WMO

Web links

Commons : Shillong  -Khasi Mountains-Meghalaya- Collection of images and media files

• Lekshmi Priya S: In the Abode of Clouds: Why Shillong Will Always Be My Favorite Place in the World! In: The Better India . February 1, 2018, accessed November 1, 2018.
• Bengt G. Karlsson: Shillong: tribal urbanity in the Northeast Indian borderland . International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Netherlands 2017, accessed on November 1, 2018.
• Homepage: The Shillong Times . Retrieved November 1, 2018 (English; since 1945; second oldest daily newspaper in Northeast India).
• Homepage: Don Bosco Museum - Experience North East India Under One Roof! Don Bosco Center for Indigenous Cultures, accessed November 1, 2018.
• News Blog: Shillong.com . Retrieved November 1, 2018.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Census / Census India 2011: Shillong City Census 2011 data.