Shillong

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Local businesses in Shillong

Listed in OpenStreetMap within 3.5 km of the city centre.

Restaurants and cafes: 72
Volga's Kitchen; Meaty Delights; Olivia's Kitchen; Open Up Cafe; Merin's Restaurant; Green Door; Cafe Lakeside; Cafe Sola; The City Wok; Appa's Thali & Natz
Hotels and lodges: 46
Elysian Home Food and Stay; Waving Pines Lodge; Tranquill Cottage; Earle Holiday Home; Latei Ville Inn; Rainforest Guest House; Bramhome Guest House; Esabella Hostel; Hotel Yalana; Kynjai homestay
Attractions and museums: 9
Shillong; Brookside Bunglow Rabindranath Tagore Museum; Don Bosco Museum; Indira Gandhi National Open University; Butterfly museum; Cathedral of Mary Help of Christians; Rhino Museum; State Museum
Cinemas and theatres: 2
Galleria Anjalee Cinema; Gold Digital Cinema
Places of worship: 62
Jaiaw Presbyterian Church; Laitumkhrah Presbyterian Church; Divine Saviour Parish; Golflinks Presbyterian Church; Grotto Chapel; Mawlai Nonglum Presbyterian Church; Mawlai Phudmuri, Presbyterian Church; Old Phudmuri Presbytarian Church; Police Bazar Presbyterian Church; Presbyterian Church Pynthorumkhrah
Parks and stadiums: 3
Lady Hydari Park
Clothing shops: 3
Megtex; Pantaloons; Reliance trends
Hospitals: 15
The Children's Hospital; Reid Provincial Chest Hospital; Dr. H. Gordon Robert Hospital (Khasi-Jaintia Presbyterian); CAPF Hospital; CHGS Wellness Centre; Composite Hospital; Jiban Ram Goenka Hospital; John Roberts Hospital; Nigrimes Hospital; R.P. Chest Hospital
Schools: 25
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; Persara School; Pine Mount School; S. Ferrando Memorial 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)
Getting there
Shillong has no railway, and Umroi Airport is about 30 km away.
Culture and food
Shillong is a hill station and the capital of Meghalaya.
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.