Tamluk

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Tamluk is a historic town in eastern India known as an ancient port city and administrative center in the Purba Medinipur district of West Bengal.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Tamluk canonical 2
Tamluk Municipality 1
Tamluk police station 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf municipality
subdivisional headquarters
town
administrativeDivision Tamluk subdivision
ancientTradeConnections maritime trade in Bay of Bengal
trade with Southeast Asia
climate tropical wet and dry climate
connectedByHighway National Highway 16
State Highway 4 (West Bengal)
country India
distanceFromKolkata approximately 85 km
elevation low-lying alluvial plain
governingBody Tamluk self-linksurface differs
surface form: Tamluk Municipality
hasCourt District Courts of India
surface form: District and Sessions Court, Purba Medinipur
hasEducationalInstitution Tamralipta Mahavidyalaya
hasPoliceStation Tamluk self-linksurface differs
surface form: Tamluk police station
hasRailwayStation Tamluk railway station
hasReligiousSite Bargabhima Temple
hasRiverPortHistory yes
historicalName Tamralipti
surface form: Tamralipta

Tamralipti
historicalPeriodOfImportance ancient India
historicalRegion Bengal
historicalSignificance ancient port city
ancient urban center
isDistrictHeadquartersOf Purba Medinipur district
legislativeAssemblyConstituency Tamluk Assembly constituency
locatedIn Purba Medinipur district
West Bengal
eastern India
locatedInRegion Medinipur division
locatedOnRiver Haldi River
nearestMajorCity Calcutta
surface form: Kolkata
nearestSea Bay of Bengal
nearRiverMouth Bay of Bengal
officialLanguage Bengali
English
parliamentaryConstituency Tamluk Lok Sabha constituency
postalCodeType PIN
primaryEconomicActivities agriculture
trade
region Rarh and coastal Bengal interface
religiousSignificance Shakti Peetha location (Bargabhima Temple)
state West Bengal
subdivision Tamluk subdivision
timezone Indian Standard Time
utcOffset +05:30
vehicleRegistrationCode WB

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Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

West Bengal containsTown Tamluk
Tamluk governingBody Tamluk self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Tamluk Municipality
Tamluk hasPoliceStation Tamluk self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Tamluk police station