Local businesses in Aizawl
Listed in OpenStreetMap within 3.5 km of the city centre.
- Restaurants and cafes: 10
- LR Cafe; Gracie's cafe; cafeenn; delicious local food; Baskin Robins; Pizza Hut; KFC; Domino's
- Hotels and lodges: 15
- Hotel Ahimsa; 1998 Homestay; Hotel Millennium; Tourist Lodge; Ebenezer boys hostel; Riakmaw Inn; Travellers Inn; Hotel Regency; Hotel chief; Hotel sangchia
- Clinics: 1
- Eye Care Centre
Aizawl facts
- District
- Aizawl district
- Population, 2011 Census
- 2,93,416
- Area
- about 457 sq km, about 1132 m above sea level
- PIN codes
- 796001 (Aizawl)
- Places nearby
- Aizwal Mosque (mosque, 1 km), Lammual Stadium (football stadium, 1 km), Mizoram State Museum (ethnographic museum, 1 km), Mizoram Presbyterian Church Synod (largest Christian Denomination, 2 km)
- Culture and food
- Christianity is the dominant religion in Aizawl, followed by the large majority of residents.
- History
- Aizawl comes from the Mizo words ai, meaning cardamom, and zawl, meaning flatland, so roughly the field of cardamom.
- Education
- Aizawl's literacy rate in the 2011 Census was about 98 per cent, one of the highest in India.
Sources: Census of India 2011, Wikipedia, Wikidata, India Post and OpenStreetMap. Last checked 14 October 2026.