Darjeeling is a city and a region in the Indian territory of West Bengal. It is situated in the Lesser Himalayas at a height of 2,000 meters (6,560 ft). It is noted for its tea industry, its perspectives on the world’s third-most noteworthy mountain Kangchenjunga, and the Darjeeling Himalayan Railroad, an UNESCO World Legacy Site. Darjeeling is the central command of the Darjeeling locale which has a to some degree independent status called Gorkhaland Regional Organization inside the territory of West Bengal. It is likewise a well known vacationer location in India.
The written history of the town begins from the mid nineteenth century when the pioneer organization under the English Raj set up a sanatorium and a tactical station in the district. Along these lines, broad tea manors were set up in the area and tea producers created half breeds of dark tea and made new aging methods. The resultant unmistakable Darjeeling tea is globally perceived and positions among the most famous dark teas on the planet. The Darjeeling Himalayan Railroad interfaces the town with the fields and has a portion of the couple of steam trains still in assistance in India.
Darjeeling has a few English style non-public schools, which draw in students from everywhere India and a couple of adjoining nations. The shifted culture of the town mirrors its assorted segment milieu containing Lepcha, Khampa, Gorkha, Kirati, Newar, Sherpa, Bhutia, Bengali and other central area Indian ethno-semantic gatherings. Darjeeling, close by its adjoining town of Kalimpong, was the focal point of the Gorkhaland social development during the 1980s and summer 2017.