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Kolkata

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 B. B. D. Bagh.

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or Dharmatala is the modern city centre 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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, 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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is a posh and new area of Kolkata. It is less congested and more modern than most parts of the city. You will find more flat blocks and green patches here compared to the North.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as North Kolkata and East Kolkata.

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is the oldest area of Kolkata, a fascinating district dominated by narrow little lanes, hundreds of century-old buildings, vibrant arts and festivals.

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refers to the eastern areas of the city of Kolkata, . It includes the localities of Metropolitan Township, , Dhapa, , Bantala, Topsia, Tiljala, VIP Nagar, Anandapur, Kalikapur, Mukundapur, , Panchasayar and certain parts of like Baishnabghata-Patuli Township, Chak Garia, Nayabad and New Garia.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Howrah Bridge and Howrah Station.

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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.

Railway station
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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.

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, C. V. Ananda Bose, located in Kolkata, the capital of .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Alipore and Maidan.

Suburb
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The land of bungalows, is home to Kolkata's zoological park, the National Library, a prison-turned-museum, and several government offices.

Suburb
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The is a 400-hectare green space in Central Kolkata that stretches from the Hooghly River in the west to Chowringhee Road in the east, and from the Victoria Memorial in the south to Raj Bhavan and Eden Gardens in the north.

Suburb
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is a neighbourhood of , in , West Bengal, India. It is so called because of the two wooden or bamboo bridges that spanned a small stream at this point.

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”
  • 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): “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”
  • “Calcuta”
  • “Calcutta”
  • “Kalkota”
  • “ma tomo Kokata”
  • “כלכתה”
  • “कलकत्ता”

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