Farakka Barrage
Farakka Barrage is a barrage across the Ganga river located in Murshidabad district in the Indian state of West Bengal, roughly 18 kilometres from the border with Bangladesh near sahibganj.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Dam
- Description: Barrage of India
- Also known as: “Faraka Dam”, “Farrakha Dam”, and “Farrakka”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include New Farakka Junction railway station.
New Farakka Junction railway station
Railway station
New Farakka Junction is a railway station on the Howrah–New Jalpaiguri line and is located in Murshidabad district in the Indian state of West Bengal. New Farakka Junction railway station lies south of the Farakka Barrage. New Farakka Junction railway station is situated 3 km southwest of Farakka Barrage.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Farakka.
Farakka
Town
Farakka is a town, with a police station and a post office, not identified in 2011 census as a separate place, in the Farakka community development block in the Jangipur subdivision of Murshidabad district in the state of West Bengal, India. Farakka is situated 4 km southwest of Farakka Barrage.
Farakka Barrage
- Location: Kaliachak III, Malda, West Bengal, Eastern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Ukrainian—“Farakka Barrage” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “ফারাক্কা বাঁধ”
- Bhojpuri: “फरक्का बैराज”
- Cebuano: “Farakka Barrage”
- Chinese: “法拉卡堰”
- Dutch: “Farakka Barrage”
- Egyptian Arabic: “قناطر فاركه”
- French: “barrage de Farakka”
- French: “Barrage de Farakka”
- Japanese: “ファラッカ堰”
- Malayalam: “Farakka Dam”
- Malayalam: “ഫറാക്ക അണക്കെട്ട്”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Farakka-demningen”
- Norwegian: “Farakka-demningen”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Restanca de Farakka”
- Russian: “Дамба Фаракка”
- Russian: “Плотина Фаракка”
- Santali: “ᱯᱷᱟᱨᱟᱠᱠᱟ ᱵᱮᱨᱟᱡᱽ”
- Spanish: “Presa de Farakka”
- Tamil: “ஃபராக்கா அணை”
- Telugu: “farakka barrage”
- Ukrainian: “Гребля Фаракка”
- Ukrainian: “Фаракка”
- “फरक्का बैराज”
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