Kolkata
Kolkata district is a district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It only contains the entire city proper of Kolkata, the capital city of the state and therefore it is a city district.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: district of India with 4,500,000 residents
- Description: district in West Bengal, India
- Also known as: “Calcutta” and “Kolkata district”
- Neighbors: North 24 Parganas and South 24 Parganas
Places of Interest
Highlights include Victoria Memorial and National Library of India.
Victoria Memorial
Museum
Photo: Subhrajyoti07, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Victoria Memorial is a large marble monument in the Maidan in Central Kolkata, having its entrance on the Queen's Way. It was built between 1906 and 1921 by the British Raj.
National Library of India
Park
Photo: Gangulybiswarup, CC BY 3.0.
The National Library of India is a library located in the Belvedere Estate, Alipore, Kolkata, India. It is India's largest library by volume and public record.
Salt Lake Stadium
Stadium
Photo: Vinayaraj, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Salt Lake Stadium, officially known as Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan, is a multi-purpose stadium, used mostly for football matches, located in Salt Lake City, Greater Kolkata, with a capacity of 85,000 spectators.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kolkata and Esplanade.
Kolkata
Photo: Sujay25, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kolkata, formerly Calcutta, is the capital and largest city of West Bengal and the cultural capital of India. Kolkata is an "in your face" city that shocks and charms the unsuspecting visitor.
Esplanade
Photo: Gangulybiswarup, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Esplanade or Dharmatala is the modern city centre of Kolkata, combining colonial-era buildings with modern developments. It serves as the city's new central business district and is preferred by major businesses, particularly along Chowringhee Road.
B. B. D. Bagh
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B. B. D. Bagh, short of Benoy-Badal-Dinesh Bagh, is the colonial-era precinct of Kolkata. Formerly known as Dalhousie Square or simply Dalhousie, the precinct takes a visitor back to the British Raj era with nostalgic overtones.
Kolkata
- Location: West Bengal, Eastern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Kolkata” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “منطقة كالكوتا”
- Armenian: “Կալկաթայի շրջան”
- Assamese: “কলিকতা জিলা”
- Asturian: “distritu de Kolkata”
- Asturian: “Kolkata (distritu)”
- Asturian: “Kolkata”
- Basque: “Kolkata barrutia”
- Belarusian: “Калката (раён)”
- Belarusian: “Калката”
- Belarusian: “Калкацкая акруга”
- Belarusian: “Калкацкі раён”
- Bengali: “কলকাতা জেলা”
- Bengali: “কলকাতা”
- Bhojpuri: “कोलकाता जिला”
- Catalan: “Calcuta”
- Cebuano: “Kolkata”
- Chinese: “加尔各答县”
- Chinese: “加爾各答縣”
- Dutch: “Kolkata district”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كالكوتا”
- Fiji Hindi: “Kolkata jila”
- Finnish: “Kalkutan piirikunta”
- French: “district de Calcutta”
- French: “District de Kolkata”
- German: “Kolkata”
- Greek: “διαμέρισμα της Καλκούτας”
- Gujarati: “કોલકાતા જિલ્લો”
- Gujarati: “કોલકોતા જિલ્લો”
- Hindi: “कोलकाता जिला”
- Italian: “distretto di Calcutta”
- Italian: “Distretto di Calcutta”
- Japanese: “コルカタ県”
- Kashmiri: “کَلٕکَتا ضِلہٕ”
- Malayalam: “കൊൽക്കത്ത ജില്ല”
- Marathi: “कोलकाता जिल्हा”
- Mingrelian: “კოლკატაშ ოლქი”
- Nepali: “कोलकाता जिल्ला”
- Newari: “कोलकाता जिल्ला”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kolkata”
- Norwegian: “Kolkata”
- Oriya: “କଲିକତା ଜିଲ୍ଲା”
- Persian: “بخش کلکته”
- Persian: “ناحیه کلکته”
- Russian: “Колката”
- Sanskrit: “कलकातामण्डलम्”
- Santali: “ᱠᱚᱞᱠᱟᱛᱟ ᱦᱚᱱᱚᱛ”
- Scots: “Kolkata destrict”
- Slovak: “Kalkata”
- Slovenian: “distrikt Kalkuta”
- Slovenian: “Kalkuta”
- Slovenian: “Kolkata”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Calcuta”
- Swedish: “Kolkata”
- Tamil: “கொல்கத்தா மாவட்டம்”
- Telugu: “కోల్కతా జిల్లా”
- Telugu: “కోల్కతా జిల్లా”
- Ukrainian: “Округ Колката”
- Urdu: “کولکاتا ضلع”
- Vietnamese: “Kolkata”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع کولکتہ”
- “कोलकाता जिला”
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Highlights include South Park Street Cemetery and Sealdah railway station.
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