Malda
Malda is a district of West Bengal, India. It borders Uttar Dinajpur and Dakshin Dinajpur to the north, Bangladesh to the east, Murshidabad to the southwest, Jharkhand to the west, and Bihar to the northwest.Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Old Malda and Jagjivanpur.
Old Malda
Old Malda is a small heritage town near Malda in North Bengal, at the confluence of the Mahananda and Kalindi rivers. Most of the town is developed along parallel streets lined up by old homes.Jagjivanpur
Photo: Sumaniidaa, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Jagjivanpur, an archaeological site in central West Bengal, is home to Nandadirghi Mahavihara, a Pala-era Buddhist university.
Malda
- Type: district of India with 3,990,000 residents
- Description: district in West Bengal, India
- Also known as: “Mālda”, “Malda district”, “Malda District”, “Mālda District”, and “Maldah”
- Neighbors: Chapai Nawabganj, Dakshin Dinajpur, Murshidabad, and Naogaon District
- Location: North Bengal, West Bengal, Eastern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Western Panjabi—“Malda” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “distritu de Malda”
- Asturian: “Malda (distritu)”
- Asturian: “Malda”
- Basque: “Malda barrutia”
- Bengali: “মালদহ জেলা”
- Bengali: “মালদহ”
- Bengali: “মালদা”
- Bhojpuri: “मालदा जिला”
- Catalan: “districte de Malda”
- Catalan: “Districte de Malda”
- Cebuano: “Māldah”
- Chinese: “Malda”
- Chinese: “馬爾達縣”
- Danish: “Malda”
- Dutch: “Malda”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مالدا”
- French: “District de Malda”
- French: “Malda”
- German: “Malda”
- German: “Maldah”
- Gujarati: “માલદહ જિલ્લો”
- Hindi: “मालदह”
- Hindi: “मालदा जिला”
- Italian: “distretto di Malda”
- Italian: “Distretto di Malda”
- Japanese: “マールダー県”
- Kashmiri: “مالدا ضِلہٕ”
- Malayalam: “മാൾഡ ജില്ല”
- Marathi: “मालदा जिल्हा”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Malda”
- Nepali: “मालदह जिल्ला”
- Newari: “मालदा जिल्ला”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Malda”
- Norwegian: “Malda”
- Oriya: “ମାଲଦହ ଜିଲ୍ଲା”
- Persian: “بخش مالدا (هند)”
- Persian: “ناحیه مالدا”
- Russian: “Малда”
- Sanskrit: “मालदामण्डलम्”
- Santali: “ᱢᱟᱞᱫᱟ ᱦᱚᱱᱚᱛ”
- Spanish: “Distrito de Malda”
- Swedish: “Māldah”
- Tamil: “மால்டா மாவட்டம்”
- Telugu: “మల్దా జిల్లా”
- Telugu: “మాల్ధ్ జిల్లా”
- Urdu: “ضلع مالدا”
- Vietnamese: “Malda”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع مالدا”
- “मालदा जिला”
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