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Kalighat

South Kolkata is a posh and new area of . It is less congested and more modern than most parts of the city. You will find more flat blocks and green patches here compared to the North.
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  • Type: Bus stop
  • Description: locality of Kolkata
  • Also known as: “Kālighāt”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Kalighat metro station and Kalighat Temple.

Metro station
Photo: BengaliHindu, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kalighat is an underground metro station on the North-South corridor of the Blue Line of Kolkata Metro at Rashbehari Avenue in Kalighat, , , India.

Hindu temple
Photo: Hiroki Ogawa, CC BY 3.0.
Kalighat Kali Temple is a in Kalighat, , , India, dedicated to the Hindu goddess Kali, one of the 10 Mahavidyas in the Hindu tantric tradition and the supreme deity in the Kalikula worship tradition. is situated 570 metres northwest of Kalighat.

Park
Deshapriyo Park is a playground of South Kolkata, having Rashbehari Avenue on one side and Sarat Bose Road on another side. Different games like Cricket, Football, Tennis etc. are regularly played here by professional and amateur players and locals. is situated 770 metres east of Kalighat.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chetla and South Kolkata.

Suburb
is a neighbourhood of South Kolkata in in the state of .

Photo: Anitek bhattacharya, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a posh and new area of . It is less congested and more modern than most parts of the city. You will find more flat blocks and green patches here compared to the North.

Kalighat

Latitude
22.51694° or 22° 31′ 1″ north
Longitude
88.34623° or 88° 20′ 46″ east
Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)
Open location code
7MJCG88W+QF
Open­Street­Map ID
node 11971706969
Open­Street­Map feature
highway=­bus_stop
Geo­Names ID
1268411
Wiki­data ID
Q960803
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In Other Languages

From Bengali to Urdu—“Kalighat” goes by many names.
  • Bengali: “কালীঘাট”
  • Dutch: “Kalighat”
  • French: “Kalighat”
  • German: “Kalighat”
  • Japanese: “カーリーガート”
  • Kashmiri: “کالی گھاٹ”
  • Marathi: “कालिघाट”
  • Russian: “Калигхат”
  • Spanish: “Kalighat”
  • Telugu: “కాళీఘాట్”
  • Urdu: “کالی گھاٹ”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". 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 “Kalighat”. Photo: Darkone, CC BY-SA 3.0.