Baranagar

The Northern Suburbs of cover the large urbanised industrial area to the north of the city, which includes Baguiati, Baranagar, Belgachia, Birati, Chitpur, Cossipore, Dakshineswar, Dum Dum, Lake Town, Nagerbazar, Paikpara and Sinthee.
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  • Type: City with 248,000 residents
  • Description: city in West Bengal, India
  • Also known as: “Baranagore”
  • Historically known as: “Barahanagore”
  • Neighbors:
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Dakshineswar Kali Temple and Belur Math.

Hindu temple
Photo: Bibek Raj Pandeya, CC BY-SA 4.0.
or Dakshineswar Kalibari is a Hindu navaratna style temple in , Kolkata, West Bengal, India, on the eastern bank of the .

Monastery
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is the headquarters of the Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission, founded by Swami Vivekananda, the chief disciple of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa.

Railway station
Photo: Pinakpani, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Baranagar Road is a Kolkata Suburban Railway station on the Sealdah–Dankuni line in the city of Baranagar. The is adjacent to .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bally and Uttarpara.

Photo: Kinjal bose 78, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a laid-back town north of city, in the district of southern . It is home to the Belur Math, headquarters of the Ramakrishna Mission.

is an industrial town on the western bank of the Hooghly River, in the of . Close to , was a major automobile hub with India's first car factory, and although the city faced decline from the 1990s till the 2020s, it has been revived as a major manufacturing hub for metro vehicles in India.

Photo: Gangulybiswarup, CC BY 3.0.
is the oldest area of , a fascinating district dominated by narrow little lanes and hundreds of century-old buildings belonging to the Zamindars, other rich Bengalis who used to trade with the British.

Baranagar

Latitude
22.6342° or 22° 38′ 3″ north
Longitude
88.3711° or 88° 22′ 16″ east
Population
248,000
Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)
Open location code
7MJCJ9MC+MC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 9265759692
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1277082
Wiki­data ID
Q712504
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Baranagar” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “باراناجار”
  • Bengali: “বড়ানগর”
  • Bengali: “বরানগর”
  • Bengali: “বরাহনগর”
  • Bhojpuri: “बड़ानगर”
  • Bishnupriya: “বড়ানগর”
  • Bulgarian: “Баранагар”
  • Catalan: “Barahanagar”
  • Catalan: “Baranagar”
  • Cebuano: “Baranagar”
  • Central Kurdish: “باراناگار”
  • Chinese: “伯勒訥各爾”
  • Chinese: “伯勒讷格尔”
  • Chinese: “巴拉納加爾”
  • Chinese: “巴拉纳加尔”
  • Dutch: “Baranagar”
  • Esperanto: “Borahonogur”
  • French: “Baranagar”
  • German: “Baranagar”
  • Hindi: “बरानगर”
  • Hindi: “बराहनगर”
  • Irish: “Baranagar”
  • Italian: “Baranagar”
  • Japanese: “バラナガル”
  • Kashmiri: “بارا نگر”
  • Korean: “바라나가르”
  • Korean: “바라나고르”
  • Ladin: “Baranagar”
  • Lithuanian: “Baranagaras”
  • Malagasy: “Baranagar”
  • Malay: “Baranagar”
  • Newari: “बारानगर”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Baranagar”
  • Norwegian: “Baranagar”
  • Persian: “بارانگر”
  • Portuguese: “Baranagar”
  • Russian: “Баранагар”
  • Serbian: “Baranagar”
  • Serbian: “Баранагар”
  • Slovenian: “Baranagar”
  • Spanish: “Baranagar”
  • Swedish: “Baranagar”
  • Tamil: “பராநகர்”
  • Ukrainian: “Баранагар”
  • Urdu: “بارا نگر”
  • Venetian: “Baranagar”
  • Vietnamese: “Baranagar”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Baranagar”
  • Western Panjabi: “بارانگر”
  • “Baranagar”
  • “बड़ानगर”

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