Barrackpore

Barrackpore or Barrackpur is a cantonment town in district of . The oldest cantonment of India, Barrackpore was the birthplace of the Indian Rebellion of 1857, and is popular among residents for its restaurants serving the Kolkata biryani.
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  • Type: City with 148,000 residents
  • Description: City in West Bengal, India
  • Also known as: “Chanak”, “North Barrackpore”, “Баракпор”, and “باراکپوری”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Barrackpore railway station and Palta railway station.

Railway station
Photo: Gangulybiswarup, CC BY 3.0.
Barrackpore is a SG-2 graded major railway station…

Railway station
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is the railway station in the town of .

Hindu temple
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Annapurna Temple, is a navaratna heritage…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Serampore and Titagarh.

Photo: রাজশ্রী রায়, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a town in the Hooghly district…

Town
Photo: Anup Sadi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a city and a municipality…

Suburb
is a census town in Barrackpore II CD Block…

Barrackpore

Latitude
22.7642° or 22° 45′ 51″ north
Longitude
88.3776° or 88° 22′ 39″ east
Population
148,000
Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)
Open location code
7MJCQ97H+M2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2876929391
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1277100
Wiki­data ID
Q709298
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Waray—“Barrackpore” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “باراكبور”
  • Bengali: “ব্যারাকপুর”
  • Bhojpuri: “बैरकपुर”
  • Bishnupriya: “ব্যারাকপুর”
  • Catalan: “Barrackpore”
  • Cebuano: “Bārākpur”
  • Chinese: “巴拉克普尔”
  • Chinese: “巴拉克普爾”
  • Czech: “Barakpur”
  • Danish: “Barrackpur”
  • Dutch: “Barrackpore”
  • Esperanto: “Barakpur”
  • French: “Barrackpore”
  • German: “Barakpur”
  • Gujarati: “બેરાકપોર”
  • Hindi: “बैरकपुर”
  • Irish: “Barrackpore”
  • Italian: “Barrackpur”
  • Japanese: “バラックポール”
  • Kannada: “ಬರ್ರಾಕ್ಪೋರ್”
  • Kannada: “ಬಾರಕ್ಪುರ್”
  • Korean: “바락푸르”
  • Ladin: “Barrackpore”
  • Macedonian: “Баракпур”
  • Malay: “Barrackpur”
  • Nepali: “बैरकपुर”
  • Newari: “ब्यारेकपुर”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Barrackpore”
  • Norwegian: “Barrackpore”
  • Pampanga: “Barrackpore”
  • Panjabi: “ਬੈਰਕਪੁਰ”
  • Portuguese: “Barrackpore”
  • Russian: “Баракпур”
  • Russian: “Барракпор”
  • Serbian: “Баракпур”
  • Spanish: “Barrackpore”
  • Swedish: “Barrackpur”
  • Tamil: “பரக்பூர்”
  • Tamil: “பாராக்போர்”
  • Telugu: “బరక్పూర్”
  • Ukrainian: “Барракпор”
  • Urdu: “بیراک پور”
  • Venetian: “Barrackpur”
  • Vietnamese: “Barrackpur”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Barrackpur”
  • “बैरकपुर”

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