Native to western Himalayas in Eastern Afghanistan, Northern Pakistan and India, Southwestern Tibet and Western Nepal.
140 on the map, the #53 most common of 384 species.
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The botanical name, which is also the English common name, derives from the Sanskrit term devadāru, which means "wood of the gods", a compound of deva "god" and dāru "wood and tree". Among Hindus, as the etymology of deodar suggests, it is worshiped as a divine tree.