West Bengal
Birbhum
Nalhati I

Nalhati

Nalhati is a remote village in the central region of and one of the 51 Shakti Pithas. It is believed that Parvati's throat fell here, when Vishnu severed her body, with chakra, to stop Shiva from the Tandav nritya.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Nalhati Junction railway station.

Railway station
Photo: Anup Sadi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Nalhati Junction is a junction station on the Rampurhat-Malda Town section in Nalhati in the Indian state of . This station is categorized as NSG-5 and operates within the Howrah Division in Eastern Railway.

Nalhati

Latitude
24.2966° or 24° 17′ 48″ north
Longitude
87.8353° or 87° 50′ 7″ east
Population
25,900
Elevation
54 metres (177 feet)
Open location code
7MP97RWP+J4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 904964391
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
1262065
Wiki­data ID
Q6960882
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In Other Languages

From Bengali to Swedish—“Nalhati” goes by many names.
  • Bengali: “নলহাটি”
  • Cebuano: “Nalhāti”
  • Dutch: “Nalhati”
  • German: “Nalhati”
  • Hindi: “नलहाटी”
  • Santali: “ᱱᱚᱞᱦᱟᱴᱤ”
  • Spanish: “Nalhati”
  • Swedish: “Nalhāti”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Nalhati”. Photo: Gangulybiswarup, CC BY-SA 3.0.