West Bengal
North 24 Parganas
Barrackpur II

Dum Dum

Dum Dum is a suburb north of and an important transport hub of the Greater Kolkata area. It is home to Kolkata's only international airport. Dum Dum is also an important food and leisure hub in West Bengal, having a lot of international fast-food chains and shopping malls.
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  • Type: Town with 123,000 residents
  • Description: City in West Bengal, India
  • Also known as: “Dam Dam” and “Dum Dum Cantonment”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport and Birati railway station.

Aerodrome
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is an serving the city of and the Kolkata metropolitan area, the capital metropolis of the Indian state of .

Railway station
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is a Kolkata Suburban Railway station in . It serves and Nimta areas in North Dumdum, , . It lies between the and .

Railway station
Durganagar is a Kolkata Suburban Railway station in Durganagar. Its code is DGNR. It serves Durganagar, Manikpur, Badra and surrounding areas. The station consists of two platforms. The platforms are not very well sheltered.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include South Dum Dum and North Dum Dum.

Town
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is a city and a municipality in the Kolkata Metropolitan Area of in the state of . It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority. is situated 4½ km southwest of Dum Dum.

Town
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or Uttar Dum Dum is a city and a municipality of in the state of . It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority.

Suburb
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is a neighbourhood in Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation of in the Indian state of . It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority.

Dum Dum

Latitude
22.6521° or 22° 39′ 7″ north
Longitude
88.436° or 88° 26′ 10″ east
Population
123,000
Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)
Open location code
7MJCMC2P+RC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 9907261163
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1272243
Wiki­data ID
Q649955
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Dum Dum” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “دمدم”
  • Bengali: “দমদম ক্যান্টনমেন্ট”
  • Bengali: “দমদম”
  • Bhojpuri: “दमदम”
  • Bishnupriya: “দমদম”
  • Cebuano: “Dam Dam”
  • Chinese: “Dum Dum”
  • Chinese: “杜姆杜姆”
  • Danish: “Dum Dum”
  • Dutch: “Dam Dam”
  • Dutch: “Dum Dum”
  • Esperanto: “Dum Dum”
  • Finnish: “Dum Dum (Intia)”
  • Finnish: “Dum Dum”
  • French: “Dum Dum”
  • German: “Dum Dum”
  • Hindi: “दम दम”
  • Hindi: “दमदम”
  • Irish: “Dum Dum”
  • Italian: “Dumdum”
  • Japanese: “ダムダム”
  • Kannada: “ಡಮ್ ಡಮ್”
  • Kashmiri: “ڈم ڈم”
  • Korean: “덤덤”
  • Ladin: “Dum Dum”
  • Malay: “Dumdum”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Dum Dum”
  • Newari: “दम्दम्”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dum Dum”
  • Norwegian: “Dum Dum”
  • Polish: “Dum Dum”
  • Portuguese: “Dum Dum”
  • Russian: “Дум-Дум (Индия)”
  • Russian: “Дум-Дум”
  • Spanish: “Dum Dum”
  • Swedish: “Dam Dam”
  • Swedish: “Dum Dum”
  • Tamil: “டம் டம்”
  • Urdu: “ڈم ڈم”
  • Venetian: “Dumdum”
  • Vietnamese: “Dumdum”
  • “दमदम”

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