Salkia
Salkia is a neighbourhood in Howrah of Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Salkia is under the jurisdiction of Golabari Police Station and Malipanchghara Police Station of Howrah City Police.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality
- Description: human settlement in India
- Also known as: “Howrah Salkia” and “Salkhia”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Howrah Bridge and Howrah Station.
Howrah Bridge
Photo: Pradip paswan, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Howrah Bridge is a balanced steel bridge over the Hooghly River in West Bengal, India. Commissioned in 1943, the bridge was originally named the New Howrah Bridge, because it replaced a pontoon bridge at the same location linking both sides of Kolkata.
Howrah Station
Railway station
Photo: Tirthankar Maiti, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Howrah Station, also known as Howrah Junction, is a major railway station of Kolkata, which not only connects the city to the rest of India, but also acts as a major stopover to connect different destinations of West Bengal and beyond.
Jorasanko Thakur Bari
Museum
Photo: Gangulybiswarup, CC BY 3.0.
Jorasanko Thakur Bari is a Haveli in Jorasanko, North Kolkata, West Bengal, India, is the ancestral home of the Tagore family. It is the birthplace of poet Rabindranath Tagore and the host of the Rabindra Bharati University campus.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Jorasanko and B. B. D. Bagh.
Jorasanko
Suburb
Photo: P.K.Niyogi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Jorasanko is a neighbourhood of North Kolkata, in Kolkata district, West Bengal, India. It is so called because of the two wooden or bamboo bridges that spanned a small stream at this point.
B. B. D. Bagh
Photo: Rangan Datta Wiki, CC BY-SA 4.0.
B. B. D. Bagh, short of Benoy-Badal-Dinesh Bagh, is the colonial-era precinct of Kolkata. Formerly known as Dalhousie Square or simply Dalhousie, the precinct takes a visitor back to the British Raj era with nostalgic overtones.
Girish Park
Suburb
Girish Park is a neighbourhood of North Kolkata in Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal. it is named after famous Bengali Theatre personnel Girish Chandra Ghosh.
Salkia
- Category: neighborhood
- Location: Kolkata, West Bengal, Eastern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Hindi—“Salkia” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “সালকিয়া”
- Hindi: “सालकिया”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Barabazar and Kolkata.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Howrah railway station and Great Eastern Hotel.
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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 Wikipedia page “Salkia”. Photo: Darkone, CC BY-SA 3.0.