Kharagpur
Kharagpur is the largest city of the southwest region of West Bengal. Kharagpur is a planned industrial city and home to the first Indian Institute of Technology.Photo: Gangulybiswarup, CC BY 3.0.
- Type: City with 208,000 residents
- Description: City in West Bengal, India
- Also known as: “Khargpur”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Girimaidan railway station and Kharagpur Junction railway station.
Girimaidan railway station
Railway station
Photo: Pinakpani, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Girimaidan railway station in the Indian state of West Bengal, serves Kharagpur, India in Paschim Medinipur district. It is on the Kharagpur–Bankura–Adra line. It is 119 km from Howrah station.
Kharagpur Junction railway station
Railway station
Photo: Gangulybiswarup, CC BY 3.0.
Kharagpur Junction railway station is a railway station in Kharagpur of Paschim Medinipur district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is also the fourth longest railway station by platform length after Hubli Junction railway station, Gorakhpur Junction railway station and Kollam Junction railway station.
Kharagpur
- Categories: municipality of West Bengal, big city, and locality
- Location: Kharagpur I, Paschim Medinipur, Southwest Bengal, West Bengal, Eastern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
22.3431° or 22° 20′ 35″ northLongitude
87.3013° or 87° 18′ 5″ eastPopulation
208,000Elevation
42 metres (138 feet)United Nations Location Code
IN KGROpen location code
7MJ988V2+6GOpenStreetMap ID
node 245704314OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Kharagpur” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “خراجبور”
- Bengali: “খড়্গপুর”
- Catalan: “Kharagpur”
- Cebuano: “Kharagpur”
- Chinese: “Kharagpur”
- Chinese: “克勒格布尔”
- Chinese: “克勒格布爾”
- Dutch: “Kharagpur”
- Esperanto: “Ĥargopur”
- Fiji Hindi: “Kharagpur”
- French: “Kharagpur”
- German: “Kharagpur”
- Hausa: “Kharagpur”
- Hebrew: “קרגפור”
- Hindi: “खड़गपुर”
- Indonesian: “Kharagpur”
- Irish: “Kharagpur”
- Italian: “Kharagpur”
- Japanese: “カラグプール”
- Japanese: “カラグプル”
- Kannada: “ಖರಗ್ ಪುರ”
- Kannada: “ಖರಗ್ಪುರ”
- Kannada: “ಖರಗ್ಪುರ”
- Kashmiri: “خراگپور”
- Korean: “카라그푸르”
- Ladin: “Kharagpur”
- Lithuanian: “Kharagpuras”
- Malay: “Kharagpur, Medinipur”
- Marathi: “खरगपूर”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Kharagpur”
- Newari: “खरगपुर”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kharagpur”
- Norwegian: “Kharagpur”
- Oriya: “Kharagpur”
- Oriya: “ଖଡ଼ଗପୁର”
- Pampanga: “Kharagpur”
- Persian: “کاراگپور”
- Persian: “کارگپور”
- Polish: “Kharagpur”
- Portuguese: “Kharagpur”
- Russian: “Кхарагпур”
- Russian: “Харагпур”
- Santali: “ᱠᱷᱚᱲᱚᱜᱽᱯᱩᱨ”
- Serbian: “Харагпур”
- Spanish: “Kharagpur”
- Swedish: “Kharagpur”
- Tamil: “கரக்பூர்”
- Telugu: “ఖరగ్పూర్”
- Thai: “ขรรคปุระ”
- Urdu: “خراگپور”
- Urdu: “کھرگپور”
- Venetian: “Kharagpur”
- Vietnamese: “Kharagpur”
- Waray (Philippines): “Kharagpur”
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