Kolkata

Kolkata, formerly Calcutta, is the capital and largest city of and the cultural capital of . Kolkata is an "in your face" city that shocks and charms the unsuspecting visitor.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Esplanade and EM Bypass.

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is the modern heart of Kolkata, 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.

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, or Eastern Metropolitan Bypass is the arterial road of East Kolkata, dotted with major hotels, hospitals, business parks, residential blocks, and other high-end construction and development.

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, one of the two satellite townships in eastern Kolkata, will take you to the leading edge of the city's development, in contrast to the crumbling old town of North Kolkata.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Behala and Garden Reach.

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is a locality southwest of Kolkata. A "city within a city", still maintains its strong local identity, despite being incorporated into the Kolkata proper back in 1984.

, also known as Metiabruz, covers the western fringe of Kolkata. Home to one of the major ports of Eastern India, also has a unique mini- legacy, as the last Nawab of spent the rest of his life in this area.

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, officially Bidhannagar, is one of the two satellite townships in eastern Kolkata. Developed in the 1950s and 60s to address the city's population growth, is one of the most prominent residential and commercial hubs of Kolkata.

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is a municipal town that is part of Greater Kolkata area. It is home to the city's only international airport. is also an important food and leisure hub in West Bengal, having a lot of international fast-food chains and shopping malls.

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, short of Benoy-Badal-Dinesh Bagh, is the colonial-era precinct of Kolkata. 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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Bhowanipore and Kalighat are two neighbourhoods along the Adi Ganga River, in South Kolkata.

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is the heart of South Kolkata. Ballygunge is an affluent neighbourhood of old-money families, with strong links to academia, art, literature and music.

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is a neighbourhood of South Kolkata in in the state of . It is flanked by the Tolly Nullah to the north, to the east, the Diamond Harbour Road to the west and to the south, bordered by the section of the South section railway line.

consists of the suburbs southeast of the city, including Baghajatin, Dhakuria, Garia, Lake Gardens, Mukundapur, Jadavpur, Jodhpur Park, Patuli, Santoshpur and Tollygunge, all of which are governed by the Kolkata Municipal Corporation.

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

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.

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Burrabazar and Jorasanko are two adjacent neighbourhoods of Kolkata, just north of . Burrabazar is one of the busiest shopping districts of Kolkata.

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Shyambazar is a prominent neighbourhood of North Kolkata, in in the Indian state of . The popularity of Shyambazar five point crossing is due to the statue of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.

is one of the busiest localities of South Kolkata, at the crossroads of multiple regions of the city.

or Shobhabazar is an old neighbourhood in North Kolkata, based around the Rajbari. Despite facing economic stagnation nowadays, was once a part of the citadel of the Bengali aristocracy.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Howrah Bridge and Raj Bhavan.

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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.

Government office
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, officially known as Lok Bhavan and formerly as Government House is the official residence of the Governor of West Bengal, R. N. Ravi, located in Kolkata, the capital of .

Railway station
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is an NSG–1 category Indian railway station in Sealdah railway division of Eastern Railway zone. Located at in central Kolkata, it is one of the railway stations serving the Kolkata metropolitan area, the others being , , , and .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bagbazar and Sealdah.

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is a neighbourhood of North Kolkata, in in the state of . The area, under Shyampukur police station of Kolkata Police, has been, along with neighbouring , the citadel of the Bengali aristocracy, in a part of what was earlier known as Sutanuti.

is a neighbourhood of Central Kolkata in in the Indian state of .

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is the twin city of Kolkata and an important industrial and transport hub of southern .

Kolkata

Latitude
22.5726° or 22° 34′ 22″ north
Longitude
88.3639° or 88° 21′ 50″ east
Population
4,490,000
Elevation
11 metres (36 feet)
IATA airport code
CCU
United Nations Location Code
IN CCU
Open location code
7MJCH9F7+3H
Open­Street­Map ID
node 245707150
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
1275004
Wiki­data ID
Q1348
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Kolkata” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kalkutta”
  • Afrikaans: “Kolkata”
  • Albanian: “Kalkuta”
  • Amharic: “ኮልካታ”
  • Angika: “कलकत्ता”
  • Arabic: “كالكوتا”
  • Arabic: “كلكتا”
  • Arabic: “كلكتة”
  • Arabic: “كُلْكَتَّة”
  • Aragonese: “Calcuta”
  • Armenian: “Կալկաթա”
  • Assamese: “কলকাতা”
  • Assamese: “কলিকতা”
  • Asturian: “Calcuta”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kəlkətə”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kəlkütə”
  • Balinese: “Kolkata”
  • Bashkir: “Калькутта”
  • Basque: “Kalkuta”
  • Belarusian: “Калката”
  • Belarusian: “Калькута”
  • Bengali: “Kolkata”
  • Bengali: “আনন্দ নগরী”
  • Bengali: “কলকাতা”
  • Bengali: “কলিকাতা”
  • Bengali: “প্রাসাদ নগরী”
  • Bengali: “মিছিলের শহর”
  • Bhojpuri: “कलकत्ता”
  • Bhojpuri: “कोलकाता”
  • Bosnian: “Kolkata”
  • Breton: “Kolkata”
  • Bulgarian: “Калкута”
  • Bulgarian: “Колката”
  • Burmese: “ကာလကတ္တားမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Calcuta”
  • Cebuano: “Kolkata (kapital sa estado)”
  • Cebuano: “Kolkata”
  • Central Bikol: “Kolkata”
  • Central Kurdish: “کەلکەتە”
  • Chechen: “Калькутта”
  • Chinese: “Kolkata”
  • Chinese: “加尔各答”
  • Chinese: “加爾各答”
  • Chuvash: “Калькутта”
  • Cornish: “Kolkata”
  • Corsican: “Calcutta”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Kolkata”
  • Croatian: “Calcutta” (historical)
  • Croatian: “Kolkata”
  • Czech: “Kalkata”
  • Dagbani: “Kolikata”
  • Dagbani: “Kolkata”
  • Danish: “Calcutta”
  • Danish: “Kolkata”
  • Dotyali: “कोलकाता”
  • Dutch: “Calcutta”
  • Dutch: “Kolkata”
  • Eastern Mari: “Колката”
  • Eastern Mari: “Колкате”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كولكاتا”
  • Esperanto: “Kolkato”
  • Estonian: “Kolkata”
  • Extremaduran: “Calcuta”
  • Faroese: “Kolkata”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Kolkata”
  • Finnish: “Kalkutta”
  • French: “Calcutta”
  • French: “Kolkata”
  • Galician: “Calcuta”
  • Galician: “Kolikata”
  • Galician: “Kolkata”
  • Gan Chinese: “加爾各答”
  • Gan Chinese: “加麗加達”
  • Georgian: “კოლკატა”
  • German: “Calcutta”
  • German: “Kolkata”
  • German: “Kalkutta” (historical)
  • Goan Konkani: “Kolkata”
  • Goan Konkani: “कलकत्ता”
  • Gorontalo: “Kalkuta”
  • Greek: “Καλκούτα”
  • Greek: “Κολκάτα”
  • Guarani: “Kalkuta”
  • Gujarati: “કલકત્તા”
  • Gujarati: “કોલકાતા”
  • Hausa: “Kolkata”
  • Hebrew: “כלכותה”
  • Hebrew: “קולקטה”
  • Hindi: “कोलकाता”
  • Hindi: “खुशी का शहर”
  • Hungarian: “Kalkutta”
  • Hungarian: “Kolkata”
  • Icelandic: “Kalkútta”
  • Icelandic: “Kolkata”
  • Ido: “Kalkuta”
  • Iloko: “Kolkata”
  • Indonesian: “Calcutta”
  • Indonesian: “Kalkutta”
  • Indonesian: “Kolkata”
  • Ingush: “Калькутта”
  • Interlingua: “Calcutta”
  • Interlingua: “Kolkata”
  • Interlingue: “Calcutta”
  • Irish: “Calcúta”
  • Italian: “Calcutta”
  • Italian: “Colcata”
  • Japanese: “カルカッタ”
  • Japanese: “コルカタ”
  • Japanese: “喜びの都市”
  • Japanese: “宮殿都市”
  • Javanese: “Kalkuta”
  • Javanese: “Kolkata”
  • Kabiyè: “Kalikuta”
  • Kalaallisut: “Kolkata”
  • Kannada: “ಕೊಲ್ಕತ್ತ”
  • Kannada: “ಕೊಲ್ಕತ್ತಾ”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Kalkutta”
  • Kashmiri: “کَلٕکَتا”
  • Kashmiri: “کولکاتا”
  • Kazakh: “Калькутта”
  • Kazakh: “Колката”
  • Kirghiz: “Калькутта”
  • Komering: “Kolkata”
  • Korean: “콜카타”
  • Kurdish: “Kolkata”
  • Ladin: “Kolkata”
  • Ladino: “Kalkuta”
  • Latin: “Calcutta”
  • Latin: “Kalakātā”
  • Latin: “Kalkātā”
  • Latvian: “Kolkata”
  • Limburgan: “Calcutta”
  • Lithuanian: “Kalkuta”
  • Lithuanian: “Kolkata”
  • Lombard: “Calcuta”
  • Low German: “Kalkutta”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Kalkuta”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kalkutta”
  • Macedonian: “Калкута”
  • Macedonian: “Колката”
  • Maithili: “कोलकाता”
  • Malagasy: “Kolkata”
  • Malay: “Kolkata”
  • Malayalam: “കൊൽക്കത്ത”
  • Maltese: “Calcutta”
  • Maltese: “Kolkata”
  • Manipuri: “ꯀꯣꯜꯀꯥꯇꯥ”
  • Maori: “Karakata”
  • Maori: “Korokata”
  • Marathi: “कोलकाता”
  • Mazanderani: “کلکته”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Kolkata”
  • Mingrelian: “კოლკატა”
  • Moksha: “Колката”
  • Mongolian: “Калькутта”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “كولكاتا”
  • Nepali: “कलकत्ता”
  • Nepali: “कोलकाता”
  • Newari: “कोलकाता”
  • Northern Frisian: “Kalkutta”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kolkata”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kolkata”
  • Norwegian: “Calcutta” (historical)
  • Norwegian: “Kolkata”
  • Novial: “Kolkata”
  • Nyanja: “Kolkata”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Calcuta”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Caligardamana”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Colcgata”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Kolkata”
  • Oriya: “କଲିକତା”
  • Ossetian: “Калькуттæ”
  • Pampanga: “Kolkata”
  • Panjabi: “ਕੋਲਕਾਤਾ”
  • Persian: “کلکته”
  • Piemontese: “Kolkata”
  • Polish: “Kalkuta”
  • Polish: “Kolkata”
  • Portuguese: “Calcutá”
  • Portuguese: “Calcutta”
  • Portuguese: “Kolkata”
  • Pushto: “کلکته”
  • Pwo Eastern Karen: “ကာလးကာ့တာႋဍုံ”
  • Quechua: “Kolkata”
  • Romanian: “Calcuta”
  • Romanian: “Calcutta”
  • Romanian: “Kolkata”
  • Russia Buriat: “Калькутта”
  • Russian: “Калькутта”
  • Russian: “Колката”
  • Rusyn: “Колката”
  • Samogitian: “Kalkota”
  • Sanskrit: “कोलकता”
  • Sanskrit: “कोलकाता”
  • Santali: “ᱠᱚᱞᱠᱟᱛᱟ”
  • Santali: “ᱠᱳᱞᱠᱟᱛᱟ”
  • Scots: “Kolkata”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Kolkata”
  • Serbian: “Колката”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kolkata”
  • Sicilian: “Calcutta”
  • Silesian: “Kolkata”
  • Sindhi: “جلوسن جو شهر”
  • Sindhi: “خوشين جو شهر”
  • Sindhi: “ڪلڪتو”
  • Sindhi: “ڪولڪتا”
  • Sindhi: “محلات جو شهر”
  • Sinhala: “කල්කටාව”
  • Sinhala: “කොල්කාතා”
  • Slovak: “Kalkata”
  • Slovenian: “Kalkuta”
  • Slovenian: “Kolkata”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کلکته”
  • Spanish: “Calcuta”
  • Swahili: “Kolkata”
  • Swedish: “Calcutta”
  • Swedish: “Kolkata”
  • Swiss German: “Kalkutta”
  • Sylheti: “ꠇꠟꠇꠣꠔꠣ ꠘꠉꠞ”
  • Sylheti: “ꠇꠟꠇꠣꠔꠣ”
  • Tagalog: “Kolkata”
  • Tajik: “Калкута”
  • Tajik: “Калкутта”
  • Talysh: “Kalkuta”
  • Tamil: “கொல்கத்தா”
  • Tamil: “கோல்கட்டா”
  • Tamil: “கோல்கதா”
  • Tatar: “Kälküttä”
  • Tatar: “Кәлкүттә”
  • Telugu: “కోల్ కతా”
  • Telugu: “కోల్‌కత”
  • Telugu: “కోల్‌కాతా”
  • Thai: “โกลกาตา”
  • Tibetan: “ཀ་ལི་ཀུ་ཏ”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Kalkutta”
  • Turkish: “Kalküta”
  • Turkmen: “Kalkutta”
  • Twi: “Kolkata”
  • Uighur: “Kalkutta”
  • Ukrainian: “Колката”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Kalkutta”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Kolkata”
  • Urdu: “کلکتہ”
  • Urdu: “کولکاتا”
  • Urdu: “کولکاتہ”
  • Uzbek: “Kalkutta”
  • Venetian: “Calcuta”
  • Veps: “Kolkat”
  • Vietnamese: “Kolkata”
  • Volapük: “Kolkata”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Kolkata”
  • Welsh: “Calcutta”
  • Welsh: “Kolkata”
  • Western Armenian: “Կալկաթա”
  • Western Frisian: “Kalkutta”
  • Western Frisian: “Kolkata”
  • Western Panjabi: “کلکتا”
  • Western Panjabi: “کلکتہ”
  • Western Panjabi: “کولکتا”
  • Wu Chinese: “加尔各答”
  • Yakut: “Колката”
  • Yiddish: “קאלקאטא”
  • Yue Chinese: “架利吉打”
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