Jorasanko North
Jorasanko North is a suburb in Kolkata, West Bengal. Jorasanko North is situated nearby to the suburb Girish Park, as well as near Machua Bazar North.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Jorasanko Thakur Bari and Howrah Bridge.
Jorasanko Thakur Bari
Museum
Photo: Gangulybiswarup, CC BY 3.0.
Jorasanko Thakur Bari is a Haveli in Jorasanko, North Kolkata, West Bengal, India, 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.
Howrah Bridge
Photo: Pradip paswan, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Howrah Bridge is a balanced steel bridge over the Hooghly River in West Bengal, India. Commissioned in 1943, the bridge was originally named the New Howrah Bridge, because it replaced a pontoon bridge at the same location linking both sides of Kolkata.
Howrah Station
Railway station
Photo: Tirthankar Maiti, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Howrah Station, also known as Howrah Junction, is a major railway station of Kolkata, which not only connects the city to the rest of India, but also acts as a major stopover to connect different destinations of West Bengal and beyond.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Girish Park and Jorasanko.
Girish Park
Suburb
Girish Park is a neighbourhood of North Kolkata in Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal. it is named after famous Bengali Theatre personnel Girish Chandra Ghosh.
Jorasanko
Suburb
Photo: P.K.Niyogi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Jorasanko is a neighbourhood of North Kolkata, in Kolkata district, West Bengal, India. It is so called because of the two wooden or bamboo bridges that spanned a small stream at this point.
Shobha Bazar
Suburb
Sovabazar and Kumartuli are two neighbourhoods in North Kolkata. Sovabazar or Shobhabazar is a rich neighbourhood, based around the Rajbari. It is named after Sovaram Basak, one of the richest inhabitants of 18th-century Calcutta, whose ancestors came to the city from Saptagram.
Jorasanko North
- Type: Suburb
- Category: locality
- Location: Kolkata, West Bengal, Eastern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
22.58883° or 22° 35′ 20″ northLongitude
88.35856° or 88° 21′ 31″ eastOpen location code
7MJCH9Q5+GCOpenStreetMap ID
node 1188948291OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburb
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