Kanchrapara
Kanchrapara is a city and a municipality of North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority.Photo: Anup Sadi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 120,000 residents
- Description: City in West Bengal, India
- Also known as: “Kāchrāpāra”, “Kancharapara”, and “Kanchrapura”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kanchrapara railway station and Kanchrapara Workshop Gate railway station.
Kanchrapara railway station
Railway station
Photo: Anup Sadi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kanchrapara railway station is a Kolkata Suburban Railway station in Kanchrapara on the Sealdah–Ranaghat line. It is situated in North 24 Parganas district, on the outskirts of Kolkata in the state of West Bengal, India.
Kanchrapara Workshop Gate railway station
Railway station
Kanchrapara Workshop Gate railway station is a railway station on the Sealdah Ranagahat line. Only during office peak hours trains halt here. This station has been mainly built for the workers of the Kanchrapara Railway Workshop.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Halisahar and Kalyani.
Halisahar
Photo: Anup Sadi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Halisahar is a city and a municipality of North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority.
Kalyani
Photo: Pinakpani, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kalyani is a city and a municipality & BDO in the Nadia district of the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the headquarters of Kalyani subdivision and part of the Presidency division.
Bansberia
Photo: Gangulybiswarup, CC BY 3.0.
Bansberia is a small town and a municipality of Hooghly district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is about 45 km away from Kolkata, at the western end of the Iswar Gupta Setu Bridge.
Kanchrapara
- Categories: municipality of West Bengal, big city, and locality
- Location: North 24 Parganas, South Bengal, West Bengal, Eastern India, India, South Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
22.9496° or 22° 56′ 59″ northLongitude
88.4379° or 88° 26′ 16″ eastPopulation
120,000Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)Open location code
7MJCWCXQ+V5OpenStreetMap ID
node 3910302436OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1268715Wikidata ID
Q2088474
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Western Panjabi—“Kanchrapara” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “কাঁচড়াপাড়া”
- Bhojpuri: “कांचरपाड़ा”
- Bishnupriya: “কাঁচড়াপাড়া”
- Cebuano: “Kānchrāpāra”
- Chinese: “坎奇拉帕拉”
- Dutch: “Kanchrapara”
- French: “Kanchrapara”
- German: “Kanchrapara”
- Hindi: “काँचड़ापाड़ा”
- Hindi: “कांचरापाड़ा”
- Irish: “Kanchrapara”
- Italian: “Kanchrapara”
- Ladin: “Kanchrapara”
- Malay: “Kanchrapara”
- Newari: “कांच्रपरा”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kanchrapara”
- Norwegian: “Kanchrapara”
- Panjabi: “ਕਾਂਚੜਾਪਾੜਾ”
- Portuguese: “Kanchrapara”
- Russian: “Канчрапара”
- Spanish: “Kanchrapara”
- Swedish: “Kanchrapara”
- Thai: “กัญจราปาระ”
- Venetian: “Kanchrapara”
- Vietnamese: “Kanchrapara”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kanchrapara”
- Western Panjabi: “کانچڑاپاڑا”
- “कांचरपाड़ा”
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