Kolkata

Kolkata, the capital of , is one of the largest in , with a metro population of over 22.5 million. Once called Calcutta in colonial times and is still fondly called as such, the city once served as the capital of the British Raj till 1911.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include East Kolkata and Southern Suburbs.

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comprises the new areas on the eastern side of the metropolis that have been growing since the 1990s. It houses the IT hub of Kolkata, shopping emporia, amusement parks and splurge hotels.

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The of Kolkata cover the rapidly mushrooming suburbs to the south and west of the city, including Behala, Dhakuria, Garden Reach, Garia, Golf Green, Jadavpur, Joka, Kidderpore, New Alipore, Pailan, Thakurpukur and Tollygunge.

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is an important part of Kolkata city. It is less congested and more modern than the rest of the city. You will find more apartment blocks and green patches here.

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Esplanade and North Kolkata.

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, the modern heart of Kolkata is the city's central business district as well as a major transport and shopping hub.

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is the oldest area of Kolkata, a fascinating district dominated by narrow little lanes and hundreds of century-old buildings belonging to the Zamindars, other rich Bengalis who used to trade with the British.

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The of Kolkata cover the large urbanised industrial area to the north of the city, which includes Baguiati, Baranagar, Belgachia, Birati, Chitpur, Cossipore, Dakshineswar, Dum Dum, Lake Town, Nagerbazar, Paikpara and Sinthee.

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The is a 400-hectare park in central Kolkata, stretching from the Hooghly river in the west to Chowringhee and Park Street in the east, and from the Victoria Memorial in the south to Raj Bhawan and Eden Gardens in the north.

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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.

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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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Places of Interest

Highlights include Howrah Bridge and Lok 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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, formally known as Raj Bhavan and 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 Howrah and Alipore.

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

Suburb
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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.

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: “Kalkato”
  • 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”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kolkata”
  • 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”
  • “Calcuta”
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  • “Kalkota”
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