Bandel
Bandel is a city in the Hooghly district of the Indian state of West Bengal. It was founded by Portuguese settlers and falls under the jurisdiction of Chandernagore Police Commissionerate.Photo: Arpansrkr, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Sujay25, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bandel Junction railway station and Basilica of the Holy Rosary.
Bandel Junction railway station
Railway station
Photo: Pinakpani, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bandel Junction railway station is a major junction station of the Kolkata Suburban Railway network, India. It is situated on the Howrah–Bandel–Barddhaman main line in Hooghly district with an approximate 40 kilometres distance from Howrah railway station.
Basilica of the Holy Rosary
Church
Photo: Grentidez, Public domain.
The Basilica of the Holy Rosary is one of the oldest Christian churches in West Bengal, India. Situated in Bandel, Hooghly district of West Bengal, it stands as a memorial to the Portuguese settlement in Bengal.
Hooghly Ghat railway station
Railway station
Photo: Pinakpani, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hooghly Ghat railway station is a small railway station in Hooghly district in the state of West Bengal. It is situated in the Naihati - Bandel Branch line.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hooghly and Bansberia.
Hooghly
Photo: Gangulybiswarup, CC BY 3.0.
Hooghly is a former Portuguese colony at the Hooghly River, in the Hooghly district of West Bengal.
Bansberia
Photo: Gangulybiswarup, CC BY 3.0.
Bansberia is a small town and a municipality of Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is about 45 km away from Kolkata, at the western end of the Iswar Gupta Setu Bridge.
Halisahar
Photo: Anup Sadi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Halisahar is a city and a municipality of North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority.
Bandel
- Type: Suburb with 272,000 residents
- Description: City in West Bengal, India
- Categories: municipality of West Bengal, large city, and locality
- Location: Chinsurah Magra, Hooghly district, South Bengal, West Bengal, Eastern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
22.9226° or 22° 55′ 22″ northLongitude
88.3877° or 88° 23′ 16″ eastPopulation
272,000Elevation
14 metres (46 feet)Open location code
7MJCW9FQ+33OpenStreetMap ID
node 9976532678OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
8629331Wikidata ID
Q629006
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Bandel” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بندل”
- Bengali: “ব্যান্ডেল”
- Bhojpuri: “बांदेल”
- Catalan: “Bandel”
- Chinese: “班德爾”
- Dutch: “Bandel”
- French: “Bandel”
- German: “Bandel”
- Hindi: “बण्डेल”
- Kashmiri: “باندل”
- Persian: “باندل”
- Portuguese: “Bandel”
- Portuguese: “Hooghly”
- Portuguese: “Hugli”
- Portuguese: “Ugolim”
- Ukrainian: “Бандел”
- Urdu: “باندل”
- “बांदेल”
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