New Delhi

India

New Delhi is the capital city of India and a part of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. New Delhi is the seat of all three branches of the Government of India, hosting the Rashtrapati Bhavan, Sansad Bhavan, and the Supreme Court. New Delhi is a municipality within the NCT, administered by the New Delhi Municipal Council, which covers mostly Lutyens' Delhi and a few adjacent areas. The municipal area is part of a larger administrative district, the New Delhi district.

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Country: India
Population: 317,797
Latitude: 28.6° N
Longitude: 77.2° E

Which way is New Delhi from…

From Paris, New Delhi lies at 80° to the east, 6,587 km as the crow flies.

Paris	80° east	6,587 km
London	80° east	6,712 km
New York	26° north-east	11,756 km
Madrid	72° east	7,274 km
Rome	82° east	5,916 km
Montreal	26° north-east	11,262 km
Saint-Denis, Réunion	24° north-east	5,977 km

Bearings as the crow flies (great circle), measured from north. From somewhere else, the bearing changes: that’s the whole game.

Oùcécap’s take

A flat map puts New Delhi east of New York, at 96°; the compass says 26°, north-east, because the shortest route crosses Greenland, northern Norway and Russia. From London too, the map misleads: 111° against 80°, both east, via Ukraine, Central Asia and Afghanistan. Kathmandu, for its part, lies due east of New Delhi, 801 km away.