Landour

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Landour Landaur
town
From top, left to right: Bandarpunch from Landour; Landour Himalayan View; Landour Community Hospital; St. Paul's Church, Landour
Landour Location in Uttarakhand, India Show map of Uttarakhand Landour Landour (India) Show map of India
Coordinates: 30°28′N 78°06′E / 30.47°N 78.10°E / 30.47; 78.10
Country	India
State	Uttarakhand
District	Dehradun
Population  (2001)
• Total	3,500
Languages
• Official	Hindi, Garhwali
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
PIN	248179
Vehicle registration	UK
Website	uk.gov.in
[1]

Landour, a small cantonment town contiguous with Mussoorie, is about 35 km (22 mi) from the city of Dehradun in the northern state of Uttarakhand in India.^[2] The twin towns of Mussoorie and Landour, together, are a well-known British Raj-era hill station in northern India. Mussoorie-Landour was widely known as the "Queen of the Hills". The name Landour is drawn from Llanddowror, a village in Carmarthenshire in southwest Wales.^[3] During the Raj, it was common to give nostalgic English, Scottish, Welsh or Irish names to one's home (or even to British-founded towns), reflecting one's ethnicity. Names drawn from literary works were also common, as from those by Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson and many others.^[4]