West Bengal
North 24 Parganas
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Barasat

Barasat is a city and a municipality of North 24 Parganas district in the state of . It is the headquarters of Barasat Sadar subdivision. It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Barasat Stadium and Barasat Junction railway station.

Stadium
Barasat District Sports Stadium, is a football stadium in Barasat, North 24 Parganas, . It is used mostly for Calcutta Football League matches.

Railway station
Photo: Pinakpani, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Barasat Junction is a Kolkata Suburban Railway station in Barasat. It is one of the major suburban railway stations in , , .

Railway station
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Hridaypur is a Kolkata Suburban Railway station in . It serves the Barasat's areas of Dakbunglow, Rathtala, Purbachal, Shishirkunja, Udayrajpur and Chandigarh in the , , .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Berachampa and Bamangachhi.

Photo: Gangulybiswarup, CC BY 3.0.
is a town in the district of , best known for Chandraketugarh, a 2,500-year old archaeological site.

Town
is a in the Barasat I CD block in the Barasat Sadar subdivision of the in the state of , .

Barasat

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
node 570086096
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1277065
Wiki­data ID
Q685315
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Barasat” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “باراسات”
  • 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”
  • Kashmiri: “باراسات”
  • Korean: “바라사트”
  • Ladin: “Barasat”
  • 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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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Barasat”. Photo: Amartya.talukdar, CC BY 3.0.