Connaught Place, New Delhi

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Coordinates: 28°37′58″N, 77°13′11″E

Commercial buildings in Connaught Place

Shops along the innermost Connaught Circle at night

LIC building in Connaught Circle at night

Connaught Place (officially called Rajeev Chowk, but referred to as C.P. by Delhiites) is a central business district of New Delhi, India. It is instantly recognisable on any map of Delhi, being the big circle in the middle with radial roads spreading out in all directions, like spokes on a wheel. Rajiv Chowk station, located under Connaught Place, is the interchange for the Yellow and Blue lines of the Delhi Metro and one of the largest and busiest stations in the network.

Although Connaught Place appears to be a logically planned area, specific shops have become frustratingly hard to find due to the various one way streets and heavy traffic.

Connaught Place's obvious Victorian architecture is modeled after the Royal Crescent in Bath, England.

Eight separate roads lead out from Connaught's inner circle, named Parliament Street and Radial Roads 1 through 7. Twelve different roads lead out from Connaught Circus, the outer ring; the most well-known of these is Janpath, the continuation of Radial Road 1.

Connaught Place is closed on Sundays.