Howrah
Howrah district is a district of the West Bengal state in eastern India. Howrah district is one of the highly urbanized area of West Bengal. It has thousands of years of rich heritage in the form of the great Bengali kingdom of Bhurshut.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: district of India with 4,850,000 residents
- Description: district in West Bengal, India
- Also known as: “Howrah district” and “Howrah District”
- Neighbors: North 24 Parganas, Purba Medinipur, and South 24 Parganas
Places of Interest
Highlights include Santragachi Junction railway station and Mourigram railway station.
Santragachi Junction railway station
Railway station
Photo: Gangulybiswarup, CC BY 3.0.
Santragachi Junction railway station is a railway junction in South Eastern Railway Zone of Indian Railways, situated in Santragachhi, Howrah, India. The station is operated by the South Eastern Railway zone of Indian Railways.
Mourigram railway station
Railway station
The Mourigram railway station in the Indian state of West Bengal, serves Mourigram, India in Howrah district. It is on the Howrah–Kharagpur line. It is 10 km from Howrah Station.
Andul railway station
Railway station
Andul railway station, in the Howrah district of the Indian state of West Bengal, serves Andul, India. It is situated on the Howrah–Kharagpur line and is approximately 12 kilometres from Howrah Station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dankuni and Shibpur.
Dankuni
Town
Photo: Gangulybiswarup, CC BY 3.0.
Dankuni is a city and a municipality of Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority. Dankuni is situated 10 km northeast of Howrah.
Shibpur
Suburb
Photo: Gangulybiswarup, CC BY 3.0.
Shibpur is a neighbourhood in Howrah of Howrah district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority. Shibpur is situated 6 km southeast of Howrah.
Batanagar
Suburb
Batanagar is a neighbourhood in Maheshtala of the South 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is a part of the area covered by the Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority. Batanagar is situated 10 km south of Howrah.
Howrah
- Location: West Bengal, Eastern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Howrah” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “منطقة هاوراه”
- Armenian: “Երգչախմբի Շրջան”
- Asturian: “distritu d’Howrah”
- Asturian: “Howrah (distritu)”
- Asturian: “Howrah”
- Basque: “Howrah barrutia”
- Bengali: “হাওড়া জেলা”
- Bengali: “হাওড়া”
- Bhojpuri: “हावड़ा जिला”
- Catalan: “Districte d’Howrah”
- Cebuano: “Hāora (distrito)”
- Cebuano: “Hāora”
- Chinese: “Haora”
- Chinese: “豪拉縣”
- Dutch: “Haora”
- Dutch: “Hoara”
- Dutch: “Howrah”
- Egyptian Arabic: “هاوراه”
- Fiji Hindi: “Howrah Jila”
- French: “district d’Haora”
- French: “District d’Haora”
- German: “Haora”
- Gujarati: “હાવડા જિલ્લો”
- Hindi: “हावङा जिला”
- Hindi: “हावड़ा जिला”
- Italian: “distretto di Howrah”
- Italian: “Distretto di Howrah”
- Japanese: “ハーウラー県”
- Malayalam: “ഹൗറാ ജില്ല”
- Marathi: “हावडा जिल्हा”
- Marathi: “हावरा जिल्हा”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Haora”
- Nepali: “हावडा जिल्ला”
- Newari: “हावडा जिल्ला”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Howrah”
- Norwegian: “Howrah”
- Oriya: “ହାଓଡ଼ା ଜିଲ୍ଲା”
- Persian: “بخش حورا”
- Persian: “ناحیه هاورا”
- Portuguese: “Distrito de Howrah”
- Russian: “Хаора”
- Russian: “Хаура”
- Sanskrit: “हाउडा मण्डलः”
- Sanskrit: “हावडामण्डलम्”
- Santali: “ᱦᱟᱣᱲᱟ ᱦᱚᱱᱚᱛ”
- Scots: “Howrah destrict”
- Slovenian: “Haora”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Howrah”
- Tamil: “ஹவுரா மாவட்டம்”
- Telugu: “హౌరా జిల్లా”
- Telugu: “హౌరాహ్ లోని జిల్లా”
- Turkish: “Howrah ilçesi”
- Urdu: “ضلع ہاوڑہ”
- Vietnamese: “Howrah”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع ہاوڑا”
- “हावड़ा जिला”
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