Hill stations
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Name (Latin)
Hill stations
Other forms of name
Stations, Hill
See Also From tracing topical name
Cities and towns
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MARC
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Wikidata:
Q2393184
Library of congress:
sh2021001237
Sources of Information
- Work cat.: Mussoorie hill station with hills in background, Uttarakhand, India, via University of Washington digital collections, International Collections, Jan. 20, 2021.
- Wikipedia, Jan. 20, 2021(hill station; a hill station is a town located at a higher elevation than the nearby plain or valley; the term was used mostly in colonial Asia (particularly in India), but also in Africa (albeit rarely), for towns founded by European emigrants as refuges from the summer heat, up where temperatures are cooler)
- Merriam-Webster online, Jan. 20, 2021(hill station: a village or government post (as in India) situated in the hills or low mountain ranges and serving usually as a health resort in the hot season)
- Cambridge dictionary online, Jan. 20, 2021(hill station: a village or town high up in the hills, especially in South Asia, where people go in the summer to escape from the heat)
- Collins dictionary online, Jan. 20, 2021(hill station: a village, post, or the like, esp. in S Asia, at a high altitude where government officials and others can be stationed to escape the great heat of tropical summers)