Kolkata
Kolkata, formerly Calcutta, is the capital and largest city of West Bengal and the cultural capital of India. Kolkata is an "in your face" city that shocks and charms the unsuspecting visitor.Photo: Rangan Datta Wiki, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Popular Destinations
South Kolkata
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South Kolkata is a posh and new area of Kolkata. It is less congested and more modern than most parts of the city.
East Kolkata
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East Kolkata consists of the new growth areas on the eastern side of Kolkata.
Central Kolkata
Central Kolkata consists of several neighbourhoods at the centre of the city, including Bowbazar, College Street, Chowringhee, Entally and Park Street.Destinations
Dum Dum
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Dum Dum is a northern suburb of Kolkata and an important transport hub of the city.
North Kolkata
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North Kolkata is the oldest area of Kolkata, a fascinating district dominated by narrow little lanes and hundreds of century-old buildings.
Maidan
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South of the bustling city centre of Kolkata, the Maidan is a 400-hectare park that stretches from…
Baranagar and Dakshineswar
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Baranagar and Dakshineswar are twin suburbs at the northern fringes of Kolkata, with a rich cultural heritage.
Southern Suburbs
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The Southern Suburbs of Kolkata are the rural–urban fringes south of the city.
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Notable Places in the Area
Howrah Bridge
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The Howrah Bridge is a balanced cantilever bridge over the Hooghly River in West Bengal, India.
Public transport in Greater Kolkata
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Greater Kolkata has one of the most extensive public transportation networks in India.
Localities in the Area
Howrah
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Howrah is the twin of Kolkata and the second-largest city in West Bengal and an important transport hub and gateway to Kolkata.
B. B. D. Bagh
Binoy-Badal-Dinesh Bagh, shortened as B. B. D. Bagh, formerly called Tank Square and then Dalhousie…Jorasanko
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Jorasanko is a neighbourhood of North Kolkata, in Kolkata district, West Bengal, India.
Kolkata
- Type: City with 4,490,000 residents
- Description: capital city of West Bengal, India
- Categories: municipal corporation of West Bengal, million city, megacity, state capital, metropolis and locality
- Location: Kolkata, West Bengal, Eastern India, India, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
22.5726° or 22° 34' 22" northLongitude
88.3639° or 88° 21' 50" eastPopulation
4,490,000Elevation
11 metres (36 feet)IATA airport code
CCUUnited Nations Location Code
IN CCUOpen Location Code
7MJCH9F7+3HOpenStreetMap ID
node 245707150OpenStreetMap Feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
1275004Wikidata ID
Q1348Kolkata Satellite Map
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Also Known As
- Afrikaans: Kalkutta
- Afrikaans: Kolkata
- Albanian: Kalkuta
- Amharic: ኮልካታ
- Angika: कलकत्ता
- Arabic: Kolkata
- Arabic: كالكوتا
- Arabic: كلكتا
- Arabic: كلكتة
- Arabic: كُلْكَتَّة
- Aragonese: Calcuta
- Armenian: Կալկաթա
- Assamese: কলকাতা
- Assamese: কলিকতা
- Asturian: Calcuta
- Azerbaijani: Kəlkütə
- Azerbaijani: Kəlkətə
- Balinese: Kolkata
- Bashkir: Калькутта
- Basque: Kalkuta
- Belarusian: Калката
- Belarusian: Калькута
- Bengali: Kolkata
- Bengali: কলকাতা
- Bengali: কলিকাতা
- Bengali: প্রাসাদ নগরী
- Bengali: মিছিলের শহর
- Bengali: সিটি অব জয়
- Bhojpuri: कलकत्ता
- Bhojpuri: कोलकाता
- Bosnian: Kolkata
- Breton: Kolkata
- Bulgarian: Колката
- Burmese: ကာလကတ္တားမြို့
- Catalan: Calcuta
- Cebuano: Kolkata (kapital sa estado)
- Cebuano: Kolkata
- Central Bikol: Kolkata
- Central Kurdish: کەلکەتە
- Chechen: Калькутта
- Chinese: Kolkata
- Chinese: 加尔各答
- Chinese: 加爾各答
- Chinese: 架利吉打
- Chuvash: Калькутта
- Cornish: Kolkata
- Corsican: Calcutta
- Croatian (Historic): Calcutta
- Croatian: Kolkata
- Czech: Kalkata
- Dagbani: Kolikata
- Dagbani: Kolkata
- Danish: Calcutta
- Danish: Kolkata
- Dotyali: कोलकाता
- Dutch: Calcutta
- Dutch: Kolkata
- Eastern Mari: Колката
- Eastern Mari: Колкате
- Egyptian Arabic: كولكاتا
- English (Historic): Calcutta
- English: Calcutta
- English: City of Joy
- English: City of Palaces
- English: City of Processions
- Esperanto: Kolkato
- Estonian: Kolkata
- Extremaduran: Calcuta
- Faroese: Kolkata
- Fiji Hindi: Kolkata
- Finnish: Kalkutta
- French: Calcutta
- French: Kolkata
- Galician: Calcuta
- Galician: Kolikata
- Galician: Kolkata
- Gan Chinese: 加爾各答
- Gan Chinese: 加麗加達
- Georgian: კოლკატა
- German: Kalkutta
- German: Kolkata
- Goan Konkani: Kolkata
- Goan Konkani: कलकत्ता
- Greek: Καλκούτα
- Greek: Κολκάτα
- Guarani: Kalkuta
- Gujarati: કલકત્તા
- Gujarati: કોલકાતા
- Hausa: Kolkata
- Hebrew: כלכותה
- Hebrew: קולקטה
- Hindi: कोलकाता
- Hindi: खुशी का शहर
- Hungarian: Kalkutta
- Hungarian: Kolkata
- Icelandic: Kalkútta
- Icelandic: Kolkata
- Ido: Kalkuta
- Iloko: Kolkata
- Indonesian: Calcutta
- Indonesian: Kalkutta
- Indonesian: Kolkata
- Ingush: Калькутта
- Interlingua: Calcutta
- Interlingua: Kolkata
- Interlingue: Calcutta
- Irish: Calcúta
- Italian: Calcutta
- Italian: Colcata
- Japanese: カルカッタ
- Japanese: コルカタ
- Japanese: 喜びの都市
- Japanese: 宮殿都市
- Javanese: Kalkuta
- Javanese: Kolkata
- Kabiyè: Kalikuta
- Kalaallisut: Kolkata
- Kannada: ಕೊಲ್ಕತ್ತ
- Kannada: ಕೊಲ್ಕತ್ತಾ
- Kashmiri: کولکاتا
- Kashmiri: کَلٕکَتا
- Kazakh: Калькутта
- Kazakh: Колката
- Kirghiz: Калькутта
- Korean: 콜카타
- Kurdish: Kolkata
- Ladin: Kolkata
- Ladino: Kalkuta
- Lao: Kolkata
- Latin: Calcutta
- Latin: Kalakātā
- Latin: Kalkātā
- Latvian: Kolkata
- Limburgan: Calcutta
- Lithuanian: Kalkuta
- Lithuanian: Kolkata
- Lombard: Calcuta
- Lower Sorbian: Kalkuta
- Luxembourgish: Kalkutta
- Macedonian: Калкута
- Macedonian: Колката
- Maithili: कोलकाता
- Malagasy: Kolkata
- Malay: Kolkata
- Malayalam: കൊൽക്കത്ത
- Maltese: Calcutta
- Maltese: Kolkata
- Maori: Karakata
- Marathi: कोलकाता
- Mazanderani: کلکته
- Min Nan Chinese: Kolkata
- Mingrelian: კოლკატა
- Mongolian: Калькутта
- Nepali: कलकत्ता
- Nepali: कोलकाता
- Newari: कोलकाता
- Northern Frisian: Kalkutta
- Norwegian (Historic): Calcutta
- Norwegian: Kolkata
- Norwegian Bokmål: Kolkata
- Norwegian Nynorsk: Kolkata
- Nyanja: Kolkata
- Occitan (post 1500): Calcuta
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Caligardamana
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): Kolkata
- Oriya: କଲିକତା
- Ossetian: Калькуттæ
- Pampanga: Kolkata
- Panjabi: ਕੋਲਕਾਤਾ
- Persian: کلکته
- Piemontese: Kolkata
- Polish: Kalkuta
- Polish: Kolkata
- Portuguese: Calcutta
- Portuguese: Calcutá
- Portuguese: Kolkata
- Pushto: کلکته
- Pwo Eastern Karen: ကာလးကာ့တာႋဍုံ
- Quechua: Kolkata
- Romanian: Calcuta
- Romanian: Calcutta
- Romanian: Kolkata
- Russia Buriat: Калькутта
- Russian: Калькутта
- Russian: Колката
- Rusyn: Колката
- Samogitian: Kalkota
- Sanskrit: कोलकता
- Sanskrit: कोलकाता
- Santali: ᱠᱚᱞᱠᱟᱛᱟ
- Scots: Kolkata
- Scottish Gaelic: Kolkata
- Serbian: Колката
- Serbo-Croatian: Kolkata
- Sicilian: Calcutta
- Silesian: Kolkata
- Sindhi: جلوسن جو شهر
- Sindhi: خوشين جو شهر
- Sindhi: محلات جو شهر
- Sindhi: ڪلڪتو
- Sindhi: ڪولڪتا
- Sinhala: කල්කටාව
- Slovak: Kalkata
- Slovenian: Kalkuta
- Slovenian: Kolkata
- South Azerbaijani: کلکته
- Spanish: Calcuta
- Swahili: Kolkata
- Swedish: Calcutta
- Swedish: Kolkata
- Swiss German: Kalkutta
- Sylheti: ꠇꠟꠇꠣꠔꠣ
- Tagalog: Kolkata
- Tajik: Калкута
- Tajik: Калкутта
- Tamil: கொல்கத்தா
- Tamil: கோல்கட்டா
- Tamil: கோல்கதா
- Tatar: Kälküttä
- Tatar: Кәлкүттә
- Telugu: కోల్ కతా
- Telugu: కోల్కత
- Telugu: కోల్కాతా
- Thai: โกลกาตา
- Tibetan: ཀ་ལི་ཀུ་ཏ
- Tosk Albanian: Kalkutta
- Turkish: Kalküta
- Turkmen: Kalkutta
- Twi: Kolkata
- Uighur: Kalkutta
- Ukrainian: Колката
- Upper Sorbian: Kalkutta
- Upper Sorbian: Kolkata
- Urdu: کلکتہ
- Urdu: کولکاتا
- Urdu: کولکاتہ
- Uzbek: Kalkutta
- Venetian: Calcuta
- Veps: Kolkat
- Vietnamese: Kolkata
- Volapük: Kolkata
- Waray (Philippines): Kolkata
- Welsh: Calcutta
- Welsh: Kolkata
- Western Armenian: Կալկաթա
- Western Frisian: Kalkutta
- Western Frisian: Kolkata
- Western Panjabi: کلکتا
- Western Panjabi: کلکتہ
- Western Panjabi: کولکتا
- Wu Chinese: 加尔各答
- Yakut: Колката
- Yiddish: קאלקאטא
- Yue Chinese: 架利吉打
- Kalikātā
- Kolkāta
- Korokata
- Sealdah
- කොල්කාතා
Popular Destinations in West Bengal
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About Mapcarta. Thanks to Mapbox for providing amazing maps. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, excluding photos, directions and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page Kolkata. Photo: Sujay25, CC BY-SA 4.0.