Basirhat

Basirhat is a city in the district of , . Along the banks of the Ichamati River and close to the border, the city is famous widely for its Durga Puja.
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  • Type: City with 126,000 residents
  • Description: City in West Bengal, India
  • Also known as: “Basirhat City”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Basirhat railway station and Bhyabla Halt railway station.

Railway station
Photo: Pinakpani, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is part of the Kolkata…

Railway station
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Basirhat

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
node 245708650
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1276759
Wiki­data ID
Q712515
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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”
  • 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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