Halisahar

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Halisahar is a town in the North 24 Parganas district of the Indian state of West Bengal, situated along the Hooghly River and forming part of the Kolkata metropolitan area.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Halisahar canonical 5

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Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Human settlement
Town
additionalOfficialLanguage English
administrativeDivision Ward-based municipal wards
borderedBy Hooghly River to the west
connectedToCity Calcutta
surface form: Kolkata
country India
countrySubdivision eastern India
surface form: Eastern India
district North 24 Parganas district
surface form: North 24 Parganas
governingBody Halisahar Municipality
governmentType Municipality
hasClimate Tropical wet and dry climate
hasRiverBank Eastern bank of Hooghly River
hasRiverFront Hooghly River
hasTransportMode Auto-rickshaws
Bus services
Suburban railway
historicalRegion Nadia region (historical)
languageSpoken Bengali
English
Hindi
legislativeAssemblyConstituency Naihati
locatedIn Kolkata Metropolitan Area
surface form: Kolkata metropolitan area
locatedInCountrySubdivision North 24 Parganas district
locatedInDivision Presidency division
locatedInGeographicalRegion Indo-Gangetic Plain
locatedInMetropolitanArea Kolkata Metropolitan Area
locatedInRegion Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta
surface form: Ganges Delta
locatedInSubregion Barrackpore
surface form: Barrackpore industrial belt
locatedInTimeZone Indian Standard Time
locatedInUrbanAgglomeration Kolkata Metropolitan Area
surface form: Kolkata Urban Agglomeration
locatedNear Barrackpore
Kanchrapara
Naihati
locatedOnRiver Hooghly River
nearestMajorCity Calcutta
surface form: Kolkata
nearestRiverPortCity Calcutta
surface form: Kolkata
officialLanguage Bengali
parliamentaryConstituency Barrackpore
partOf Kolkata Metropolitan Area
surface form: Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority area
postalCodeType PIN
railwayLine Sealdah–Ranaghat line
railwayStation Halisahar railway station
state West Bengal
subdivisionType Town
UTCOffset +5:30
vehicleRegistrationCode WB
WB-23
WB-24

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Referenced by (5)

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

West Bengal containsTown Halisahar
Naihati locatedNear Halisahar
Kanchrapara locatedNear Halisahar
Sealdah–Ranaghat line serves Halisahar