Gairkata
Gairkata is a census town in the Dhupguri subdivision of the Jalpaiguri district in the state of West Bengal, India. It is the native town of prominent Bengali writer Samaresh Majumdar, poet and journalist Bikash Sarkar and CPI leader Samar Ganguly.- Type: Village with 66,400 residents
- Description: human settlement
- Also known as: “Gayerkata” and “Goyerkata”
Gairkata
- Categories: census town of India and locality
- Location: Banarhat, Jalpaiguri, North Bengal, West Bengal, Eastern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
26.7001° or 26° 42′ 0″ north
Longitude
89.0251° or 89° 1′ 30″ east
Population
66,400
Elevation
104 metres (341 feet)
Open location code
7MRFP22G+22
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Vietnamese—“Gairkata” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “গয়েরকাটা”
- Bishnupriya: “গাইরকাটা”
- Cebuano: “Goyerkāta”
- Chinese: “Gairkata”
- Chinese: “盖尔卡塔”
- Chinese: “蓋爾卡塔”
- Dutch: “Gairkata”
- French: “Gairkata”
- Hindi: “गायरकाटा”
- Italian: “Gairkata”
- Ladin: “Gairkata”
- Malagasy: “Gairkata”
- Malay: “Gairkata”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Gairkata”
- Newari: “गैरकता”
- Portuguese: “Gairkata”
- Russian: “Гаирката”
- Swedish: “Goyerkāta”
- Urdu: “گیرکاٹا”
- Vietnamese: “Gairkata”
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