Howrah

Howrah is the twin city of and an important industrial and transport hub of southern .
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  • Type: City with 1,070,000 residents
  • Description: City in West Bengal, India
  • Also known as: “Haora”, “Haura”, and “Hawrah”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Howrah Station and Howrah Bridge.

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, also known as Howrah Junction, is a major railway station of , which not only connects the city to the rest of , but also acts as a major stopover to connect different destinations of and beyond.

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The is a balanced steel bridge over the in , . Commissioned in 1943, the bridge was originally named the New , because it replaced a pontoon bridge at the same location linking both sides of Kolkata.

Fort
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, officially Vijay Durg, is a fort in , . It was built during the early years of Britain's administration of Bengal. It sits on the eastern banks of the , the major distributary of the River Ganga.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include B. B. D. Bagh and Esplanade.

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, short of Benoy-Badal-Dinesh Bagh, is the colonial-era precinct of . Formerly known as Dalhousie Square or simply Dalhousie, the precinct takes a visitor back to the British Raj era with nostalgic overtones.

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is the modern heart of , combining colonial-era buildings with modern developments. It serves as the city's new central business district and is preferred by major businesses, particularly along Chowringhee Road.

Bowbazar and College Street are two adjacent neighbourhoods in Central Kolkata. College Street, also known as baipāṝā, is a 900 m long street, where you can trace many out-of-print books at throw-away prices, with a little patience.

Howrah

Latitude
22.5736° or 22° 34′ 25″ north
Longitude
88.3251° or 88° 19′ 30″ east
Population
1,070,000
Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)
United Nations Location Code
IN HRA
Open location code
7MJCH8FG+F2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 339279350
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1270396
Wiki­data ID
Q205697
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Howrah” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Haora”
  • Arabic: “هاورا”
  • Armenian: “Հաորա”
  • Armenian: “Հոուրահ”
  • Asturian: “Howrah”
  • Bengali: “হাওড়া”
  • Bhojpuri: “हावड़ा”
  • Bishnupriya: “হাওড়া”
  • Bulgarian: “Ховрах”
  • Catalan: “Howrah”
  • Cebuano: “Hāora”
  • Chechen: “Ховрах”
  • Chinese: “Haora”
  • Chinese: “豪拉”
  • Czech: “Háura”
  • Danish: “Howrah”
  • Dutch: “Haora”
  • Dutch: “Howrah”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “هاورا”
  • Esperanto: “Haora”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Howrah”
  • Finnish: “Haora”
  • Finnish: “Howrah”
  • French: “Haora”
  • French: “Howrah”
  • Georgian: “ჰოვრაჰი”
  • German: “Haora”
  • German: “Hāora”
  • German: “Howrah”
  • German: “हावड़ा”
  • Greek: “Χαορά”
  • Greek: “Χαόρα”
  • Gujarati: “હાવડા”
  • Hebrew: “האורה”
  • Hindi: “हावड़ा”
  • Hungarian: “Haora”
  • Indonesian: “Howrah”
  • Irish: “Howrah”
  • Italian: “Howrah”
  • Japanese: “ハーウラー”
  • Japanese: “ハウラ”
  • Japanese: “ハウラー”
  • Japanese: “ハオラ”
  • Kannada: “ಹವ್ರಾ”
  • Kannada: “ಹೌರಾ”
  • Kashmiri: “ہاوڑا”
  • Korean: “하우라”
  • Ladin: “Howrah”
  • Latvian: “Haura”
  • Latvian: “Hāura”
  • Lithuanian: “Haora”
  • Lithuanian: “Haura”
  • Macedonian: “Хаора”
  • Maithili: “हावडा”
  • Maithili: “हावड़ा”
  • Malagasy: “Howrah”
  • Malay: “Haora”
  • Marathi: “हावडा”
  • Marathi: “हावरा, पश्चिम बंगाल”
  • Marathi: “हावरा”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Haora”
  • Mingrelian: “ჰოვრაჰი”
  • Newari: “हावडा”
  • Newari: “हावरा”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Haora”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Howrah”
  • Norwegian: “Haora”
  • Oriya: “ହାଓଡ଼ା”
  • Ossetian: “Хаорæ”
  • Pampanga: “Howrah, India”
  • Pampanga: “Howrah”
  • Panjabi: “ਹਾਵੜਾ”
  • Persian: “هاورا”
  • Polish: “Haora”
  • Polish: “Haura”
  • Polish: “Howrah”
  • Portuguese: “Haora”
  • Portuguese: “Howrah”
  • Pushto: “هووراه”
  • Romanian: “Haora”
  • Russian: “Хаора”
  • Russian: “Хаура”
  • Russian: “Ховрах”
  • Sanskrit: “हाउडा”
  • Sanskrit: “हावडा”
  • Santali: “ᱦᱟᱣᱲᱟ”
  • Scots: “Howrah”
  • Serbian: “Haora”
  • Serbian: “Хаора”
  • Sinhala: “හව්රා”
  • Slovenian: “Haora”
  • South Azerbaijani: “هاورا”
  • Spanish: “Haora”
  • Spanish: “Howrah”
  • Swahili: “Howrah”
  • Swedish: “Haora”
  • Swedish: “Haura”
  • Swedish: “Howrah”
  • Talysh: “Xaorah”
  • Tamil: “ஹவுரா”
  • Tamil: “ஹௌரா”
  • Tatar: “Хаора”
  • Telugu: “హౌరా జిల్లా”
  • Telugu: “హౌరా”
  • Thai: “หาวรา”
  • Turkish: “Howrah”
  • Ukrainian: “Хаура”
  • Urdu: “ہاوڑا”
  • Urdu: “ہاوڑہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Haora”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Haora”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Howrah”
  • Western Panjabi: “ہاوڑا”
  • Western Panjabi: “ہوڑا”
  • Wu Chinese: “豪拉”
  • “हावड़ा”

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