Chinsurah

Chinsurah is the headquarters of the Hooghly district of , India. Lying on the Hooghly River close to , 35 km north of , Chinsurah has a strong significance in the history of .
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Gangulybiswarup, CC BY 3.0.
  • Suburb
  • …lies at an elevation of 15 metres (49 feet)
  • Description: neighbourhood in West Bengal, India
  • Also known as
    “Chinsura”
    “Chuchura”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Chuchura railway station and Hooghly railway station.
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Chunchura railway station is a Kolkata Suburban Railway station on the Howrah–Bardhaman main line.
Sayan sayan 22, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Hooghly is a Kolkata Suburban Railway station on the Howrah–Bardhaman main line.
Pinakpani, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a small railway…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hooghly and Chandannagar.
Gangulybiswarup, CC BY 3.0.
is a former Portuguese colony at the River, in the district of .
Rangan Datta Wiki, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, formerly Chandernagore, is a small city in the Hooghly district of , India.
Sujay25, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a city in the of the Indian state of .

Chinsurah

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Latitude
22.8855° or 22° 53′ 8″ north
Longitude
88.3837° or 88° 23′ 1″ east
Open location code
7MJCV9PM+5F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 11420616692
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Geo­Names ID
1273919
Wiki­data ID
Q1006256

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In Other Languages

From Bengali to Western Panjabi—“Chinsurah” goes by many names.
  • Bengali: “চুঁচুড়া”
  • Bhojpuri: “हुगली चिनसुराह”
  • Bishnupriya: “হুগলী-চুঁচড়া”
  • Bulgarian: “Чунчура”
  • Catalan: “Chinsura”
  • Catalan: “Chinsurah”
  • Cebuano: “Chunchura”
  • Chinese: “欽蘇拉”
  • Chinese: “钦苏拉”
  • Czech: “Činsura”
  • Dutch: “Chuchura”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Chinsurah”
  • French: “Chuchura”
  • German: “Chinsura”
  • German: “Chinsurah”
  • German: “Chunchura”
  • Gujarati: “ચુચુરા”
  • Hindi: “चुंचुड़ा”
  • Indonesian: “Chinsurah”
  • Italian: “Chinsurah”
  • Kashmiri: “چنسورہ”
  • Macedonian: “Чинсура”
  • Malay: “Chinsurah”
  • Newari: “चिन्सुराह”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Chinsura”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Chinsurah”
  • Oriya: “Chinsurah”
  • Persian: “چینسورا”
  • Polish: “Czinsur”
  • Portuguese: “Hughli”
  • Portuguese: “Ugulim”
  • Russian: “Чинсура”
  • Sanskrit: “चुंचुडा”
  • Sanskrit: “चुञ्चुडा”
  • Slovenian: “Činsura”
  • Spanish: “Chinsura”
  • Spanish: “Chuchura”
  • Swedish: “Chinsura”
  • Swedish: “Chinsurah”
  • Swedish: “Chuchura”
  • Swedish: “Chunchura”
  • Tamil: “சூச்சுரா”
  • Ukrainian: “Чинсура”
  • Urdu: “چنسورہ”
  • Urdu: “ہگلی-چنسورہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Chinsurah”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Chinsura”
  • Western Panjabi: “ہگلی”

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