Baranagar

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Baranagar

Total population

248,466

Coordinates22.63°, 88.37°

Demographic figures from Ministry of Statistics (India). Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

Overview

Baranagar is a city and a municipality in the Kolkata Metropolitan Area of North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA).

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Notable people from here

Mahendralal Sarkar

The First Homeopathic Practitioner in India

Alamohan Das

Indian Industrialist

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Amal Dutta

Indian footballer (1930-2016)

Asit Kumar Haldar

Indian painter of Bengal school (1890-1964)

Donald Friell McLeod

Scottish civil servant (1810–1872)

Girish Chandra Ghosh

Bengali actor, director, and writer

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James Drummond Anderson

British Indologist (1852-1920)

Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya

Indian academic

Manindra Chandra Nandy

Bengali philanthropist (1860-1929)

Peter McAra, Jr.

Canadian politician (1862–1950)

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Purnendu Shekhar Pattrea

Indian film director

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Sudakshina Devi

Indian activist (1884–1972)

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Sanatan Dinda

Indian visual artist

Anurupa Debi

Bengali writer

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Ardhendu Shekhar Mustofi

Bengali theatre actor

Golap Ma

Hindu saint and mystic

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in West Bengal

• Bally
  2 mi away · pop. 291,972
• Uttarpara Kotrung
  2.9 mi away
• South Dumdum
  2.9 mi away
• Kamarhati
  3.2 mi away · pop. 336,579
• North Dumdum
  3.9 mi away
• Bidhannagar
  4.2 mi away · pop. 304,000
• Kolkata
  4.3 mi away · pop. 4,486,679
• Dum Dum
  4.3 mi away
• Konnagar
  4.7 mi away
• Panihati
  4.8 mi away · pop. 383,522
• Howrah
  5.1 mi away · pop. 1,072,161
• Khardaha
  5.7 mi away · pop. 108,500

Browse all places in West Bengal →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Recently spotted species

Arthroschista hilaralis

Arthroschista hilaralis

Seen 2026-10-01

Spotted Dove

Spilopelia chinensis

Seen 2026-10-01

Domestic Mallard

Anas platyrhynchos domesticus

Seen 2026-10-01

Asian Common Toad

Duttaphrynus melanostictus

Seen 2026-09-30

American Cockroach

Periplaneta americana

Seen 2026-09-30

Aquarius adelaidis

Aquarius adelaidis

Seen 2026-09-30

Adanson's House Jumper

Hasarius adansoni

Seen 2026-09-30

Chalky Percher

Diplacodes trivialis

Seen 2026-09-30

Indian Wolf Snake

Lycodon aulicus

Seen 2026-09-29

Research-grade observations from iNaturalist (within ~15 mi).