Digha
Digha is one of the most popular seaside resorts in West Bengal. People from the cities flock around the beaches of Digha during the vacation. As it is close to cities like Kolkata and Kharagpur, Digha has emerged from a small fishing hamlet to a weekend getaway with numerous budget hotels and lodges.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Gangulybiswarup, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Gangulybiswarup, CC BY 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Digha railway station.
Digha railway station
Railway station
Photo: Dipankan001, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Digha is a terminal railway station on the Tamluk–Digha branch line and is located in Purba Medinipur district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It serves Digha sea-side area. The railway station is near New Digha beach.
Digha
- Type: Town with 3,670 residents
- Description: seaside resort town in West Bengal, India
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Ramnagar I, East Midnapore, Purba Medinipur, West Bengal, Eastern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
21.6225° or 21° 37′ 21″ northLongitude
87.5069° or 87° 30′ 25″ eastPopulation
3,670Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)Open location code
7MH9JGC4+XQOpenStreetMap ID
node 245697018OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1272625Wikidata ID
Q5275680
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Vietnamese—“Digha” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “দীঘা”
- Cebuano: “Digha”
- Dutch: “Digha”
- German: “Digha”
- Hindi: “दीघा, पश्चिम बंगाल”
- Hindi: “दीघा”
- Irish: “Digha”
- Kannada: “ದೀಘಾ”
- Marathi: “दिघा (पश्चिम बंगाल)”
- Marathi: “दिघा”
- Nepali: “दिघा”
- Nepali: “दीघा”
- Oriya: “ଦୀଘା”
- Panjabi: “ਦੀਘਾ”
- Santali: “ᱫᱤᱜᱷᱟ”
- Swedish: “Digha”
- Telugu: “డిఘ”
- Vietnamese: “Digha”
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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 “Digha”. Photo: Gangulybiswarup, CC BY 3.0.