The City
Location •Gangtok is located at 27.33°N 88.62°E. It is situated in the lower Himalayas at an altitude of 5,500 ft (1,676 m). •Gangtok literally means a hillock cut out to make flat land. A piece of such flat land was used to build the Gangtok Monastery as early as 1716.
From a map published in 1929 under the direction of the SurveyorGeneral of India, Brigadier R.H. Thomas, D.S.O. http://www.semiadventuroustraveler.com/semi%20research.html