Katihar

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Katihar is a city in eastern India known as a major railway junction and commercial center in the state of Bihar.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Katihar canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf city
administrativeDivision Purnia division
climate humid subtropical climate
connectedBy national highways
railways
country India
distanceFromKolkata approximately 480 km
distanceFromPatna approximately 290 km
economySector services
trade and commerce
transport and logistics
governingBody Katihar Municipal Corporation
hasAirportNearby Bagdogra Airport
Darbhanga Airport
hasEducationalInstitution Katihar Engineering College
Katihar Medical College
hasRailConnectivityTo Delhi
Guwahati
Calcutta
surface form: Kolkata

Mumbai
Patna
hasRailwayStation Katihar Junction
surface form: Katihar Junction railway station
isDistrictHeadquartersOf Katihar district
isLocatedIn Katihar district
knownFor commercial centre
major railway junction
languageSpoken Bhojpuri
Hindi
Maithili
Urdu language
surface form: Urdu
locatedInHistoricalRegion Mithila region
surface form: Mithila
locatedOnRiver Kosi river region
surface form: Kosi River basin

Mahananda River basin
majorEconomicActivity agricultural trade
food grains trade
jute trade
retail commerce
nearestMajorCity Bhagalpur
Purnia
postalCodePrefix 8541xx
railwayDivisionHeadquartersOf Katihar railway division
railwayZone Northeast Frontier Railway (partly)
surface form: Northeast Frontier Railway zone
region eastern India
state Bihar
timeZone Indian Standard Time
UTCOffset +05:30
vehicleRegistrationCode BR-39

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Referenced by (2)

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

Bihar containsCity Katihar
north Bihar hasMajorCity Katihar
subject surface form: North Bihar