Bidhannagar

Salt Lake, officially Bidhannagar, is one of the two satellite townships in eastern . Developed in the 1950s and 60s to address the city's population growth, Salt Lake is one of the most prominent residential and commercial hubs of Kolkata.
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  • Type: City with 304,000 residents
  • Description: City in West Bengal, India
  • Also known as: “Salt Lake”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Salt Lake Stadium and Anandalok Hospital.

Stadium
Photo: Vinayaraj, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The , also known as Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan, is a multi-purpose stadium, used mostly for football matches, located in Salt Lake City, Greater Kolkata, with a capacity of 85,000 spectators.

Hospital
is a network of non-profit multi-specialty hospitals located in Kolkata, West Bengal. It has 18 branches, including four in Salt Lake — one opposite Karunamoyee and the others in CK, CL and BF blocks, employing over 1500 people.

Government office
Photo: Tarunsamanta, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a government office.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Shyambazar-Hatibagan and Sealdah.

Photo: P.K.Niyogi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Shyambazar is a prominent neighbourhood of North Kolkata, in in the Indian state of . The popularity of Shyambazar five point crossing is due to the statue of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.

is a neighbourhood of in in the Indian state of .

or Shobhabazar is an old neighbourhood in North Kolkata, based around the Rajbari. Despite facing economic stagnation nowadays, was once a part of the citadel of the Bengali aristocracy.

Bidhannagar

Latitude
22.5904° or 22° 35′ 26″ north
Longitude
88.4169° or 88° 25′ 1″ east
Population
304,000
Open location code
7MJCHCR8+5Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 11962929957
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Wiki­data ID
Q796739
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Bidhannagar” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بيدهاناجار”
  • Basque: “Bidhannagar”
  • Bengali: “বিধাননগর”
  • Bhojpuri: “बिधान नगर”
  • Bishnupriya: “বিধান নগর”
  • Bishnupriya: “সল্ট লেক”
  • Chinese: “比丹納加爾”
  • Chinese: “比丹纳加尔”
  • Dutch: “Bidhannagar, Kolkata”
  • Dutch: “Bidhannagar”
  • French: “Bidhan Nagar”
  • German: “Bidhannagar”
  • Greek: “Μπιντάναγκαρ”
  • Gujarati: “બિધાનનગર”
  • Hindi: “बिधाननगर”
  • Hindi: “विधाननगर”
  • Irish: “Bidhannagar”
  • Italian: “Bidhan Nagar”
  • Japanese: “ビダナガー”
  • Japanese: “ビダンナガール”
  • Kannada: “ಬಿಧಾನಗರ್”
  • Korean: “비단나가르”
  • Ladin: “Bidhannagar”
  • Malay: “Bidhan Nagar”
  • Newari: “विधान नगर”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bidhannagar”
  • Norwegian: “Bidhannagar”
  • Persian: “بیدانگر”
  • Persian: “بیدان‌نگر”
  • Portuguese: “Bidhannagar”
  • Russian: “Бидханнагар”
  • Santali: “ᱵᱤᱫᱷᱟᱱᱱᱚᱜᱚᱨ”
  • Serbian: “Bidanagar”
  • Serbian: “Bidhannagar”
  • Serbian: “Биданагар”
  • Spanish: “Bidhannagar”
  • Swedish: “Bidhan Nagar”
  • Swedish: “Bidhannagar”
  • Tamil: “பிதான்நகர்”
  • Telugu: “బిధానగర్”
  • Urdu: “بدھان نگر”
  • Urdu: “بیدہاننگر”
  • Venetian: “Bidhan Nagar”
  • Vietnamese: “Bidhan Nagar”
  • “Bidhannagar”
  • “बिधान नगर”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Purta Bhavan and Central Park.

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