Falta
Falta is a riverside town in South 24 Parganas, West Bengal. It was originally a Dutch settlement, then a British retreat when Nawab Siraj-ud-Daulah captured Calcutta. Now, Falta is one of the many riverside picnic spots in South 24 Parganas.- Type: Suburb with 250,000 residents
- Description: village in West Bengal, India
- Also known as: “Falta, South 24 Parganas”
Falta
- Categories: village in India and locality
- Location: South 24 Parganas, South Bengal, West Bengal, Eastern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
22.2933° or 22° 17′ 36″ northLongitude
88.1055° or 88° 6′ 20″ eastPopulation
250,000Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)Open location code
7MJC74V4+85OpenStreetMap ID
node 7154423734OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbGeoNames ID
12680837Wikidata ID
Q5432811
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to South Azerbaijani—“Falta” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Falta”
- Bengali: “ফলতা”
- Dutch: “Falta, South 24 Parganas”
- Hindi: “फलता, दक्षिण २४ परगना”
- Ladin: “Falta”
- South Azerbaijani: “فالتا, گونئی 24 پارقاناس”
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