Jorasanko

Jorasanko 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.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Howrah Station and Jorasanko Thakur Bari.

Photo: Tirthankar Maiti, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, also known as Howrah Junction, is a major railway station of , which not only connects the city to the rest of , but also acts as a major stopover to connect different destinations of and beyond.

Museum
Photo: Gangulybiswarup, CC BY 3.0.
is a Haveli in Jorasanko, , , , is the ancestral home of the Tagore family. It is the birthplace of poet Rabindranath Tagore and the host of the Rabindra Bharati University campus.

Photo: Pradip paswan, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Girish Park and Shobha Bazar.

Suburb
is a neighbourhood of in in the state of . it is named after famous Bengali Theatre personnel Girish Chandra Ghosh.

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Shobhabazar is a neighbourhood of , in , in the state of .

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, 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.

Jorasanko

Latitude
22.58341° or 22° 35′ 0″ north
Longitude
88.35625° or 88° 21′ 23″ east
Open location code
7MJCH9M4+9G
Open­Street­Map ID
node 1188948275
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­suburb
Wiki­data ID
Q6276260
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In Other Languages

From Bengali to Tamil—“Jorasanko” goes by many names.
  • Bengali: “জোড়াসাঁকো”
  • Dutch: “Jorasanko”
  • French: “Jorasanko”
  • Hebrew: “ג’וראסנקו”
  • Hindi: “जोरासांको”
  • Tamil: “ஜோராசங்கா”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Jorasanko East and Jagganath Ghat.

Notable Places Nearby

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