Uttarpara
Uttarpara is an industrial town on the western bank of the Hooghly River, in the Hooghly district of West Bengal. Close to Kolkata, Uttarpara was a major automobile hub with India's first car factory, and although the city faced decline from the 1990s till the 2020s, it has been revived as a major manufacturing hub for metro vehicles in India.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality with 159,000 residents
- Description: City in West Bengal, India
- Also known as: “Uttapara”, “Uttarpar”, and “Uttarpara Kotrung”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dakshineswar Kali Temple and Bally railway station.
Dakshineswar Kali Temple
Hindu temple
Photo: Bibek Raj Pandeya, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dakshineswar Kali Temple or Dakshineswar Kalibari is a Hindu navaratna style temple in Dakshineswar, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River.
Bally railway station
Railway station
Photo: Tarunsamanta, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bally railway station is a Kolkata Suburban Railway station on the Howrah–Bardhaman main line and Howrah–Bardhaman chord line. It is located in Howrah in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Bally Ghat railway station
Railway station
Bally Ghat railway station is a station of Eastern Railway in Howrah. It is 15 km away from Sealdah and 7 km from Dankuni Junction on the Sealdah–Dankuni line of Eastern Railway.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dakshineswar and Dunlop.
Dakshineswar
Suburb
Photo: Sukanta Pal, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dakshineswar is a suburb north of Kolkata, in the North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal. Considered the twin of Varanasi by locals, the suburb is famous for the riverside Kali temple.
Dunlop
Suburb
Dunlop is a neighbourhood in Baranagar of North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority. Dunlop is situated 3 km east of Uttarpara.
Konnagar
Town
Photo: Pinakpani, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Konnagar is a town on the western bank of the Hooghly River, in the Hooghly district of West Bengal. Konnagar is situated 4½ km north of Uttarpara.
Uttarpara
- Categories: municipality of West Bengal and big city
- Location: Serampur Uttarpara, Hooghly, West Bengal, Eastern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Uttarpara” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أوتاربارا”
- Bengali: “উত্তরপাড়া কোটরাং”
- Bengali: “উত্তরপাড়া কোতরং”
- Bengali: “উত্তরপাড়া”
- Bhojpuri: “उत्तरपाड़ा”
- Bishnupriya: “উত্তরপাড়া কোটরাং”
- Cebuano: “Uttarpāra”
- Chinese: “乌塔尔帕拉科特龙格”
- Chinese: “烏塔爾帕拉科特龍格”
- Dutch: “Uttarpara”
- Esperanto: “Utturpara Kotrong”
- Fiji Hindi: “Uttarpara”
- German: “Uttarpara”
- Hebrew: “אוטרפארה”
- Hindi: “उत्तरपाड़ा”
- Indonesian: “Uttarpara Kotrung”
- Irish: “Uttarpara Kotrung”
- Italian: “Uttarpara Kotrung”
- Italian: “Uttarpara”
- Japanese: “アターパーラ”
- Japanese: “ウッタルパラ”
- Kashmiri: “اترپارا”
- Ladin: “Uttarpara Kotrung”
- Malay: “Uttarpara Kotrung”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Uttarpara Kotrung”
- Norwegian: “Uttarpara”
- Persian: “اوتارپارا-کوترونگ”
- Persian: “اوتارپارا”
- Polish: “Uttarpara”
- Portuguese: “Uttarpara Kotrung”
- Spanish: “Uttarpara”
- Swedish: “Kotrung”
- Swedish: “Uttarpara Kotrung”
- Swedish: “Uttarpara-Kotrung”
- Swedish: “Uttarpara”
- Urdu: “اترپارا”
- Venetian: “Uttarpara Kotrung”
- Vietnamese: “Uttarpara Kotrung”
- “उत्तरपाड़ा”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Uttarpara”. Photo: Gangulybiswarup, CC BY 3.0.