Bowbazar
Bowbazar, also spelt Boubazar; formerly known as Bahubazar) is a neighbourhood of Central Kolkata, in Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal.Places of Interest
Highlights include Calcutta Medical College & Hospital and Central.
Calcutta Medical College & Hospital
Hospital
Photo: Dwaipayanc, Public domain.
Medical College, Kolkata, also known as Calcutta Medical College, is a public medical college and hospital in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Established in 1835 by Lord William Bentinck, it is one of the oldest medical colleges to teach modern medicine in Asia.
Central
Metro station
Photo: Guru-45, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Central is an underground metro station on the North-South corridor of the Blue Line of Kolkata Metro on the crossing of Bepin Behari Ganguly Street and Central Avenue in Bowbazar, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Sealdah railway station
Railway station
Photo: শরদিন্দু ভট্টাচার্য্য, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sealdah railway station is an NSG–1 category Indian railway station in Sealdah railway division of Eastern Railway zone. Located at Sealdah in central Kolkata, it is one of the railway stations serving the Kolkata metropolitan area, the others being Howrah, Shalimar, Kolkata, and Santragachi.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kolkata and Sealdah.
Kolkata
Photo: Sujay25, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal, is one of the largest in India, 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.
Sealdah
Suburb
Sealdah is a neighbourhood of Central Kolkata in Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Tal Tala
Suburb
Taltala is a neighbourhood in Central Kolkata, in Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal. One of the oldest neighbourhoods of the metropolis, it has a police station on its own name.
Bowbazar
- Type: Suburb
- Description: locality of Kolkata
- Categories: neighborhood and locality
- Location: Kolkata, West Bengal, Eastern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
22.57049° or 22° 34′ 14″ northLongitude
88.36156° or 88° 21′ 42″ eastOpen location code
7MJCH9C6+5JOpenStreetMap ID
node 1190128273OpenStreetMap feature
place=suburbWikidata ID
Q4950708
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bengali to Japanese—“Bowbazar” goes by many names.
- Bengali: “বউবাজার”
- Chinese: “堡巴扎”
- Dutch: “Bowbazar”
- Hindi: “बहूबाजार”
- Japanese: “ボウバザール”
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