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Kanchrapara
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Kanchrapara
Total population
120,300
Demographic figures from Ministry of Statistics (India). Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
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Overview
Kanchrapara is a city and a municipality 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).
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History
From early historical period, geographically, this area had been full of swamps, natural riverine lake, low land, water bodies sparse village-settlements surrounded by deep jungle infested with wild animals of all kinds. However, around this area, there were several dozen villages more or less prosperous. This area underwent development from 1862, the Sealdaha Kusthia Broad Gauge Railway Line, through an 1863 construction of a locomotive workshop and railway station on the northernmost tip of Bizpur Mouza, undertaken by Eastern Bengal State Railway. In 1914, a carriage and wagon shop were added. Subsequently, a planned Railway Township was laid and built to the East & South West of the Workshops with a wide range of infrastructure. The resulting population increase caused the construction of huts and pucca buildings, necessitating the expansion of Municipal infrastructure beyond the Railway area. The Kanchrapara Municipality was carved out of the Halisahar municipality in the 1917, at the enterprise of Mr. Harnett, the then officer of Kanchrapara Railway Workshop. This city was named Kanchrapara since the Railway Station at Bijpur was named after the then village Kanchanpalli or Kanchrapara. It was prosperous economically and culturally, being the seat of many stalwarts of Baishnab literature and early Bengali literature.
Geography
Kanchrapara is located at . It has an average elevation of 10 metres (32 feet). Kanchrapara is bounded by Kalyani and Gayespur in Nadia district on the north, Jayanpur, Palladaha, Kampa, Srotribati, Chandua and Jetia on the east and Halisahar on the south and west. Bijpur is a neighbourhood in Kanchrapara. 96% of the population of Barrackpore subdivision (partly presented in the map alongside) lives in urban areas. In 2011, it had a density of population of 10,967 per km2 The subdivision has 16 municipalities and 24 census towns. For most of the cities/ towns information regarding density of population is available in the Infobox. Population data is not available for neighbourhoods. It is available for the entire municipal area and thereafter ward-wise. All places marked on the map are linked in the full-screen map. Kanchrapara railway station is in the city's north-east. On its Western Side lies the Greater Kanchrapara. One enters its central market area through the Station Road, which is a two-lane road. Then is the central roundabout of the city, the city's heart – Gandhi More. One road from Gandhi More leads to the 1.5 km long Workshop Road off to the esteemed Kanchrapara Railway Workshop towards the south and another road, Kabi Guru Rabindra Path, which is a 4 km long main road running westwards from Gandhi More till it merges with Rani Rashmoni Ghat Road, at Bagmore, the city's westernmost locality. The Eastern Side of the Station is called Little Kanchrapara or Gram (Rural) Kanchrapara. Here lies Kampa Panchayat, which houses the Kanchrapara Airfield and the Indian Army Camp. Nearby is Jonepur, which is home to a significant minority Christian population. Bijpur police station under Barrackpore Police Commissionerate has jurisdiction…
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Nearby places in West Bengal
- Halisahar1.5 mi away
- Kalyani1.8 mi away · pop. 100,600
- Bansberia2.2 mi away
- Gayespur4.3 mi away
- Naihati4.4 mi away
- Hugli-Chuchura4.5 mi away · pop. 177,259
- Madanpur5.1 mi away
- Chandannagar7.3 mi away · pop. 166,867
- Bhatpara7.9 mi away · pop. 390,467
- Haringhata8.3 mi away
- Chakdaha10.7 mi away · pop. 50,000
- Nagarukhra12.9 mi away · pop. 50,000
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Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.
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Local Government Directory (India)
- LGD code
- 801693
- Population (Wikidata)
- 129,576
- Wikidata
- Q2088474
LGD code via Wikidata P5578
Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • Wikidata
- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
- • Wikipedia Pageviews API
- • Local Government Directory (India) — LGD code via Wikidata P5578