Uttarpara
Uttarpara is an industrial town on the western bank of the Hooghly River, in the Hooghly district of West Bengal. Close to Kolkata, Uttarpara was a major automobile hub with India's first car factory, and although the city faced decline from the 1990s till the 2020s, it has been revived as a major manufacturing hub for metro vehicles in India.- Type: Locality with 159,000 residents
- Description: City in West Bengal, India
- Also known as: “Uttapara”, “Uttarpar”, and “Uttarpara Kotrung”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dakshineswar Kali Temple and Bally railway station.
Dakshineswar Kali Temple
Hindu temple
Photo: Bibek Raj Pandeya, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dakshineswar Kali Temple or Dakshineswar Kalibari is a Hindu navaratna style temple in Dakshineswar, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River.
Bally railway station
Railway station
Photo: Tarunsamanta, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bally railway station is a Kolkata Suburban Railway station on the Howrah–Bardhaman main line and Howrah–Bardhaman chord line. It is located in Howrah in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Nivedita Setu
Bridge
Photo: Jonoikobangali, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Nivedita Setu is a multi-span extradosed bridge spanning the Hooghly River, connecting Bally, Howrah with Dakshineswar, Kolkata. It runs parallel to and about 50m downstream of the old Vivekananda Setu, opened in 1932.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bally and Dakshineswar.
Bally
Photo: Kinjal bose 78, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bally is a laid-back town north of Howrah city, in the Howrah district of southern West Bengal. It is home to the Belur Math, headquarters of the Ramakrishna Mission.
Dakshineswar
Photo: Sukanta Pal, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dakshineswar is a suburb north of Kolkata, in the North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal. Considered the twin of Varanasi by locals, the suburb is famous for the riverside Kali temple.
Baranagar
Photo: Zcarstvnz, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Baranagar is a suburb north of Kolkata, in the North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal. It has a rich cultural heritage.
Uttarpara
- Categories: municipality of West Bengal and big city
- Location: Serampur Uttarpara, Hooghly district, South Bengal, West Bengal, Eastern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Uttarpara” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أوتاربارا”
- Bengali: “উত্তরপাড়া কোটরাং”
- Bengali: “উত্তরপাড়া কোতরং”
- Bengali: “উত্তরপাড়া”
- Bhojpuri: “उत्तरपाड़ा”
- Bishnupriya: “উত্তরপাড়া কোটরাং”
- Cebuano: “Uttarpāra”
- Chinese: “乌塔尔帕拉科特龙格”
- Chinese: “烏塔爾帕拉科特龍格”
- Dutch: “Uttarpara”
- Esperanto: “Utturpara Kotrong”
- Fiji Hindi: “Uttarpara”
- German: “Uttarpara”
- Hebrew: “אוטרפארה”
- Hindi: “उत्तरपाड़ा”
- Indonesian: “Uttarpara Kotrung”
- Irish: “Uttarpara Kotrung”
- Italian: “Uttarpara Kotrung”
- Italian: “Uttarpara”
- Japanese: “アターパーラ”
- Japanese: “ウッタルパラ”
- Kashmiri: “اترپارا”
- Ladin: “Uttarpara Kotrung”
- Malay: “Uttarpara Kotrung”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Uttarpara Kotrung”
- Norwegian: “Uttarpara”
- Persian: “اوتارپارا-کوترونگ”
- Persian: “اوتارپارا”
- Polish: “Uttarpara”
- Portuguese: “Uttarpara Kotrung”
- Spanish: “Uttarpara”
- Swedish: “Kotrung”
- Swedish: “Uttarpara Kotrung”
- Swedish: “Uttarpara-Kotrung”
- Swedish: “Uttarpara”
- Urdu: “اترپارا”
- Venetian: “Uttarpara Kotrung”
- Vietnamese: “Uttarpara Kotrung”
- “उत्तरपाड़ा”
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