Local businesses in Aizawl
Listed in OpenStreetMap within 3.5 km of the city centre.
- IT and company offices: 2
- Herhse Business; ZOS Enterprises
- Government offices: 21
- Directorate of Sports and Youth Services; Directorate of Tourism; Mizoram Public Service Commission; Mizoram Secretariat; Directorate of Science and Technology; Directorate of Economics and Statistics; Office of the Superintendent of Police (Security); BDO Tlangnuam RD Block Office; Office of the Settlement Officer & Sub-Registration Officer; MPSC Main Examination Hall
- Colleges and universities: 1
- Government Aizawl College
- Workshops and craft businesses: 2
- gawdz; Aizawl Watch House
- Banks: 2
- Mizoram Rural Bank; SBI, Dawrpui Branc
- Hospitals: 15
- Aizawl Hospital & Research Centre; B.N. Hospital,Kulikawn; Bethesda Hospital; Ebenezar Hospital; Greenwood Hospital; LRM Hospital; Nazareth Hospitals; Vaivenga Hospital; Kulikawn Hospital; Aizawl Adventist Hospital
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)
- 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.
- Local economy
- Aizawl is the commercial centre of Mizoram, and its economy is mostly services: education, public administration, tourism and trade. The surrounding region grows rice, maize, pineapples, oranges and bananas, and bamboo, cane and forest-based handicrafts and handloom units provide local income.
Sources: Census of India 2011, Wikipedia, Wikidata, India Post and OpenStreetMap. Last checked 14 October 2026.