Canning

Canning is a small town in the district of . It is known as the "Gateway of the ", as many people reach Canning on their wat to the mangroves.
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  • City with 42,100 residents
  • …lies at an elevation of 6 metres (20 feet)
  • Description: City in West Bengal, India
  • Also known as
    “Canning Town”
    “Canning, South 24 Parganas”
    “Port Canning”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Canning railway station.

Railway station
Photo: Pinakpani, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a Kolkata Suburban Railway Station on the Canning Branch line.

Canning

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Latitude
22.3104° or 22° 18′ 37″ north
Longitude
88.6579° or 88° 39′ 28″ east
Open location code
7MJC8M65+45
Open­Street­Map ID
node 7154647119
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1274984
Wiki­data ID
Q4886236

Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Canning” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كانينغ”
  • Asturian: “Canning”
  • Bengali: “ক্যানিং, দক্ষিণ চব্বিশ পরগনা”
  • Bengali: “ক্যানিং”
  • Bengali: “পোর্ট ক্যানিং”
  • Catalan: “Canning”
  • Catalan: “Port Canning”
  • Cebuano: “Canning”
  • Dutch: “Canning, South 24 Parganas”
  • French: “Canning (Inde)”
  • French: “Canning”
  • Hindi: “कैनिंग, दक्षिण २४ परगना”
  • Hindi: “कैनिंग”
  • Russian: “Каннинг”
  • Slovenian: “Canning”
  • Spanish: “Canning”
  • Swedish: “Canning”
  • Urdu: “کیننگ، جنوبی 24 پرگنہ”

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