Local businesses in Shillong
Listed in OpenStreetMap within 3.5 km of the city centre.
- Restaurants and cafes: 72
- Merin's Restaurant; Green Door; Cafe Lakeside; Cafe Sola; The City Wok; Appa's Thali & Natz; Dejavue; Dylan’s Cafe; Tid Bitz; Bade Miya
- Clothing shops: 3
- Megtex; Pantaloons; Reliance trends
- Supermarkets: 3
- 101 Army Canteen; Vishal Mega Mart
- Clinics: 15
- Laban Red Cross; Mohanam SN Ayurvedic Centre; Apollo Teleclinic; Bansara Eye Care; Bansara Eye Care Centre; Dr. B Lyngdoh Clinic; Heal and Smile Dental & Medical Centre; Hope Clinic; Memorial Clinic; O & G Clinic
- Schools: 25
- Meghalaya Police Public School; Brook Side Higher Secondary School; Kendriya Vidyalaya (NEHU); All Saints Diocesan High School; Auxilium High Secondary School; Dinet Manik School; H. Elias Higher Secondary School; Mary Rice center for special education; Mawprem Modern HS School; Mizo Modern School
Shillong facts
- District
- East Khasi Hills district
- Population, 2011 Census
- 1,43,229
- Area
- about 64.36 sq km, about 1525 m above sea level
- People
- 83.5% literacy
- PIN codes
- 793001 (Shillong )
- Places nearby
- Ward's Lake (Shillong) (artificial lake, 1 km), Lok Bhavan (indian governor's house, 1 km), Don Bosco Technical School (school, 1 km), St. Anthony's Higher Secondary School (minority school, 2 km)
- Culture and food
- Shillong is a hill station and the capital of Meghalaya.
- Getting there
- Shillong has no railway, and Umroi Airport is about 30 km away.
- History
- Shillong is named after Lei Shyllong, a deity believed to live on Shillong Peak. It was the capital of Assam under the British and for 25 years after independence, until Meghalaya was formed in 1972.
Sources: Census of India 2011, Wikipedia, Wikidata, India Post and OpenStreetMap. Last checked 14 October 2026.