Balurghat
Dakshin Dinajpur is a district of West Bengal, India. Its history dates back to Pala and Sena times and has a unique cultural heritage.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Balurghat railway station and Balurghat High School.
Balurghat railway station
Railway station
Balurghat railway station is a railway station on the Eklakhi–Balurghat branch line and is located in Dakshin Dinajpur district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Balurghat High School
School
Balurghat High School is a higher secondary school for boys & for girls situated at the Ward no. 11 of Balurghat Municipality in Dakshin Dinajpur of West Bengal. Balurghat High School was established in 1907 and it is one of the oldest schools in India.
Balurghat
- Type: City with 151,000 residents
- Description: City in West Bengal, India
- Categories: municipality of West Bengal, human settlement, and locality
- Location: Balurghat, Dakshin Dinajpur, Northern Plains, West Bengal, Eastern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
25.2234° or 25° 13′ 24″ northLongitude
88.7781° or 88° 46′ 41″ eastPopulation
151,000Elevation
29 metres (95 feet)IATA airport code
RGHUnited Nations Location Code
IN RGHOpen location code
7MQC6QFH+96OpenStreetMap ID
node 245730854OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1277508Wikidata ID
Q633291
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Waray—“Balurghat” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “বালুরঘাট”
- Bhojpuri: “बालुरघाट”
- Bishnupriya: “বালুরঘাট”
- Catalan: “Balurghat”
- Cebuano: “Bālurghāt”
- Chinese: “巴卢尔加特”
- Chinese: “巴盧爾加特”
- Dutch: “Balurghat”
- Esperanto: “Balurghat”
- Fiji Hindi: “Balurghat”
- French: “Balurghat”
- German: “Balurghat”
- Gujarati: “બાલુરઘાટ”
- Hindi: “बालुरघाट”
- Irish: “Balurghat”
- Italian: “Balurghat”
- Japanese: “バールルガート”
- Kannada: “ಬಾಲುರ್ಘಾಟ್”
- Kashmiri: “بالور گھاٹ”
- Malagasy: “Balurghat”
- Malay: “Balurghat”
- Marathi: “बालुरघाट”
- Nepali: “बालुरघाट”
- Newari: “बलुरघाट”
- Newari: “बालुरघाट”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Balurghat”
- Norwegian: “Balurghat”
- Oriya: “Balurghat”
- Oriya: “ବାଲୁର୍ଘାଟ”
- Pampanga: “Balurghat”
- Polish: “Balurghat”
- Russian: “Балургхат”
- Sanskrit: “बालुरघाट”
- Santali: “ᱵᱟᱞᱩᱨᱜᱷᱟᱴ”
- Spanish: “Balurghat”
- Swedish: “Balurghat”
- Talysh: “Balurghat”
- Tamil: “பாலூர்காட்”
- Telugu: “బాలూర్ఘాట్”
- Telugu: “బాలూర్ఘాట్”
- Urdu: “بالور گھاٹ”
- Venetian: “Balurghat”
- Vietnamese: “Balurghat”
- Waray (Philippines): “Balurghat”
- “बालुरघाट”
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