Eastern India
West Bengal
South 24 Parganas

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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  • Type: City with 42,100 residents
  • Description: City in West Bengal, India
  • Also known as: “Canning, South 24 Parganas”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Canning railway station and Matla Halt railway station.

Railway station
Photo: Pinakpani, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a Kolkata Suburban Railway Station on the Canning Branch line. It is under the jurisdiction of the Sealdah railway division in the Eastern Railway zone of the Indian Railways.

Railway stop
is a Kolkata Suburban Railway Station on the Canning Branch line. It is under the jurisdiction of the Sealdah railway division in the Eastern Railway zone of the Indian Railways.

Canning

Latitude
22.3104° or 22° 18′ 37″ north
Longitude
88.6579° or 88° 39′ 28″ east
Population
42,100
Open location code
7MJC8M65+45
Open­Street­Map ID
node 7154647119
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Wiki­data ID
Q4886236
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Asturian to Swedish—“Canning” goes by many names.
  • 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”
  • Slovenian: “Canning”
  • Spanish: “Canning”
  • Swedish: “Canning”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Canning”. Photo: Gangulybiswarup, CC BY 3.0.