Dehradun district

Dehradun (: देहरादून) is a district of  state in northern. The district headquarters is, which has also served as the provisional capital of Uttaranchal since its founding in 2000, and may well become the permanent capital. The region was seized as a war spoil from the Maharaja of as a consequence of the  of 1814-16, and attached administratively to  to its immediate south, which was already in British hands. Dehradun District also includes the prominent towns of, , and. The district stretches from the river in the east to the  river in the west, and from the  and  in the south and southeast to the  in the northwest.