Basirhat
Basirhat is a city in the North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, India. Along the banks of the Ichamati River and close to the Bangladesh border, the city is famous widely for its Durga Puja.- Type: City with 126,000 residents
- Description: City in West Bengal, India
- Also known as: “Basirhat City”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Basirhat railway station and Bhyabla Halt railway station.
Basirhat railway station
Railway station
Basirhat railway station is part of the Kolkata Suburban Railway system and operated by Eastern Railway. It is located at Basirhat on the Barasat–Hasnabad line in North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Bhyabla Halt railway station
Railway station
Bhyabla Halt railway station is part of the Kolkata Suburban Railway system and operated by Eastern Railway. It is located on the Barasat–Hasnabad line in North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Basirhat
- Categories: municipality of West Bengal, big city, and locality
- Location: Basirhat I, Eastern North 24 Parganas, North 24 Parganas, South Bengal, West Bengal, Eastern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
22.6612° or 22° 39′ 40″ north
Longitude
88.866° or 88° 51′ 58″ east
Population
126,000
Elevation
6 metres (20 feet)
Open location code
7MJCMV68+FC
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Basirhat” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بصیرهات”
- Bengali: “বসিরহাট”
- Bhojpuri: “बशीरहाट”
- Bishnupriya: “বসিরহাট”
- Catalan: “Basirhat”
- Cebuano: “Basīrhat”
- Chinese: “巴西尔哈特”
- Chinese: “巴西爾哈特”
- Dutch: “Basirhat”
- Esperanto: “Basirhat”
- French: “Basirhat”
- German: “Basirhat”
- Gujarati: “બસિરહાટ”
- Hindi: “बशीरहाट”
- Hindi: “बसीरहाट”
- Irish: “Basirhat”
- Italian: “Basirhat”
- Japanese: “バシーラット”
- Kannada: “ಬಸಿರ್ಹತ್”
- Kannada: “ಬಸಿರ್ಹಾಟ್”
- Kashmiri: “باسیرہات”
- Korean: “바시라트”
- Korean: “바시하트”
- Ladin: “Basirhat”
- Malagasy: “Basirhat”
- Malay: “Basirhat”
- Newari: “बसिरहाट”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Basirhat”
- Norwegian: “Basirhat”
- Portuguese: “Basirhat”
- Russian: “Басирхат”
- Santali: “ᱵᱚᱥᱤᱨᱦᱟᱴ”
- Spanish: “Basirhat”
- Swedish: “Basirhat”
- Tamil: “பாசிர்ஹத்”
- Tamil: “பாசீர்ஹாட்”
- Telugu: “బసీర్హట్”
- Urdu: “باسیرہات”
- Urdu: “بصیرہاٹ”
- Venetian: “Basirhat”
- Vietnamese: “Basirhat”
- Waray (Philippines): “Basirhat”
- “बशीरहाट”
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