Barasat
Barasat is a city and a municipality of North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the headquarters of Barasat Sadar subdivision. It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority.Places of Interest
Highlights: Barasat Stadium and Barasat Junction railway station.
Barasat Junction railway station
Railway station
Barasat Berachampa Junction is a Kolkata Suburban Railway station in Barasat.
Hridaypur railway station
Railway station
Hridaypur is a Kolkata Suburban Railway station in Hridaypur.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Berachampa and Bamangachhi.
Barasat
- Type: City with 298,000 residents
- Description: City in West Bengal, India
- Categories: municipality of West Bengal, big city, and locality
- Location: Barasat I, Central North 24 Parganas, North 24 Parganas, South Bengal, West Bengal, Eastern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
22.7191° or 22° 43′ 9″ north
Longitude
88.4826° or 88° 28′ 57″ east
Population
298,000
Elevation
11 metres (36 feet)
Open location code
7MJCPF9M+J2
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Barasat” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “باراسات”
- Armenian: “Բարասատ”
- Bengali: “বারাসত”
- Bhojpuri: “बारसात”
- Bishnupriya: “বারাসত”
- Catalan: “Barasat”
- Cebuano: “Bārāsat”
- Chinese: “巴拉瑟德”
- Chinese: “巴拉萨特”
- Chinese: “巴拉薩特”
- Dutch: “Barasat”
- Esperanto: “Barasat”
- French: “Barasat”
- German: “Barasat”
- Gujarati: “બારાસત”
- Hindi: “बारासत”
- Irish: “Barasat”
- Italian: “Barasat”
- Japanese: “バラサト”
- Kannada: “ಬರಾಸತ್”
- Kannada: “ಬರ್ಸಾತ್”
- Korean: “바라사트”
- Ladin: “Barasat”
- Magahi: “बारासत”
- Malagasy: “Barasat”
- Malay: “Barasat”
- Marathi: “बारासात, पश्चिम बंगाल”
- Marathi: “बारासात”
- Newari: “बरसात”
- Newari: “बारासत”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Barasat”
- Norwegian: “Barasat”
- Persian: “باراسات”
- Persian: “باراست”
- Portuguese: “Barasat”
- Russian: “Барасат”
- Sanskrit: “बारासात”
- Serbian: “Барасат”
- Spanish: “Barasat”
- Swedish: “Barasat”
- Tamil: “பராசத்”
- Tamil: “பர்ஸாட்”
- Telugu: “బరాసత్”
- Telugu: “బారాసత్”
- Ukrainian: “Барасат”
- Urdu: “باراسات”
- Urdu: “باراست”
- Venetian: “Barasat”
- Vietnamese: “Barasat”
- “बारसात”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Champadali and Madhyamgram.
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