Mussoorie is a hill station and a municipal board in the Dehradun district of the Indian state of Uttarakhand. It is about 35 kilometres from the state capital of DeHradun and 290 km north of the national capital of New Delhi. The 14th Dalai Lama took up residence at Mus soorie in 1959 during the 1959 Tibetan Rebellion. Today 5,000 Tibetans live in the town, which has an average altitude of 2,005 metres.
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Mussoorie is a hill station and a municipal board in the Dehradun district of the Indian state of Uttarakhand. It is about 35 kilometres from the state capital of DeHradun and 290 km north of the national capital of New Delhi. The name Mussoorie is often attributed to a derivation of mansūr, a shrub which is indigenous to the area. In 1803 the Gorkhas under Umer Singh Thapa conquered the Garhwal and the Dehra. The highest point is the original Lal Tibba in Landour, with a height of over 2,275 m. The 14th Dalai Lama took up residence at Mus soorie in 1959 during the 1959 Tibetan Rebellion. Today 5,000 Tibetans live in the town, which has an average altitude of 2,005 metres. The town is often referred to as Mansuri by most Indians and is popularly known as The Queen of the Hills. It was the intended terminus of the Great Trigonometric Survey of India that began at the southern tip of the country in 1832. In 1901 the town had a population of 6,461, rising to 15,000 in the summer. The first Tibetan school was established in Mussooria in 1960 and is today headquartered in Dharamsala in Himachal Pradesh, where the Central Tibetan Administration is currently headquartered. The average temperature is about 2,000 °C. The climate is subtropical highland for the mid-altitude Himalaya, with July and August averaging approximately 660 millimetres of rain per month due to the monsoonal air.
The typical rainfall from post-June to mid-June is from heavy to heavy rainfall, giving the typical post-post-June rainfall of between 1,500 and 1,800 millimetre. The area is very dry and generally dry and post-monsoon seasons in April and May are warm and dry and clear, giving way to the post-September monsoon season in June and July. In the summer, the average temperature in the area is between 2,200 and 2,300 m and the average rainfall in the month of August is between 660 and 800 millimetres per month. It has a fairly dry climate, with the typical rainfall in mid-July and mid-August averaging about 660 millimeters of rain due to heavy and very wet monsoon air due to monsoon moisture. In April 1959 the Dalai Lama moved to the town and lived there until April 1960, when he moved to Dharamala. He stayed at the Happy Valley School, which is now a popular tourist attraction in the city. The school is now run by a group of Tibetan students. The Dalai Lama is now based in the village of Happy Valley, near the town of Jharipani, in the Himalayan foothills of the Shiwalik range. Mussoore is a popular destination for tourists and tourists to the region.
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