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Howrah

City in West Bengal, India
Organization municipal_corporation_of_west_bengal Q205697

Facts

22 properties
Instance of
municipal corporation of West Bengal
Country
India[3]
Official website
www.myhmc.in[11]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 22.580°, 88.329°
Capital of
Howrah district[16]
Area
+63.55[28]
Authority
Howrah Municipal Corporation[10]
Described by source
The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[14][15]
Different from
Haora River, Haroa[25][26]
Elevation above sea level
+9[27]
Female population
+515855[20]
Illiterate population
+202584[32]
Licence plate code
WB-11, WB-12, WB-13, WB-14[5][6][7][8]
Literate population
+874491[33]
Local dialing code
33[9]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Howrah Sadar subdivision[2]
Maintained by WikiProject
WikiProject India, WikiProject Indian cities, WikiProject West Bengal[29][30][31]
Male population
+561220[21]
Native label
Howrah, হাওড়া, हावड़ा[22][23][24]
Official name
Howrah, হাওড়া, हावड़ा[17][18][19]
Population
+1007532, +1077075[12][13]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 1,007,532 · 1,077,075 GeoNames 1,027,672 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
Postal code
711101[4]
🏷️ Also known as
en Haora en Howrah en Haura ar هاورا cs Háura de हावड़ा de Hāora de Haora el Χαορά en-gb Haora es Haora fi Haora fr Haora he האורה ja ハーウラー ja ハウラ ja ハウラー ja ハオラ ko 하우라 nl Howrah
🔖 Identifiers · 25
VIAF cluster ID
127946133
Library of Congress authority ID
n81129746
GND ID
4522184-4
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Howrah bridge betwixt Lights.jpg ↗
Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID
howrah
De Agostini ID
Haora+(città)
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Haora
FactGrid item ID
Andreas Thaler
Freebase ID
/m/0374yz
GNS Unique Feature ID
-2097144
GeoNames ID
1270396
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
howrah
Show all 25 identifiers +13
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0033083
Indian census area code (2011)
801740
MusicBrainz area ID
3740423e-6bd8-4237-b50e-afb074bfc069
NE.se ID
haora
NL CR AUT ID
ge1082638
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987013002825105171
OpenStreetMap relation ID
10371828
Quora topic ID
Howrah-West-Bengal-India
SNARC ID
320 BC
Topic's main category
Category:Howrah
UN/LOCODE
INHOW
Who's on First ID
102030123
Yale LUX ID
place/8228fe1b-63b5-4eb5-8d9b-9e38cf2b451e

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🔗 Connections
People born here 14
Kanan Devi, Sailen Manna, Shyama Shaw, Manoj Tiwary, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Aloke Bhattacharjee, Mumtaz Begum, Rudranil Ghosh +6 more
Contained subdivisions 11
Howrah Bridge, Howrah railway station, The Great Banyan, Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden, Belur Math, Shalimar railway station, Belur, Nabanna +3 more
← Different from 3
howdah, Haora River, Haroa
Described by source 2
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The Nuttall Encyclopædia
Different from 2
Haora River, Haroa
← Place served by transport hub 2
Howrah railway station, Shalimar railway station
Belongs to 1
Kolkata Metropolitan Area
Capital of 1
Howrah district
Country 1
India
FactGrid item ID 1
Andreas Thaler
Instance of 1
million city
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Howrah Sadar subdivision
Located in time zone 1
UTC+05:30
Named after 1
Howrah Bridge
SNARC ID 1
320 BC
Topic's main category 1
Category:Howrah
← Capital 1
Howrah district
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Howrah
← Headquarters location 1
Prithibir Itihas Karyalay
← Manufacturer 1
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Summary

Howrah is a municipal corporation of West Bengal[1].

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Brands and Namesakes

Things named for Howrah include Howrah Bridge[34], a cantilever bridge[35], in India[36], founded in 1943[37].

Why It Matters

Entities named for Howrah include Howrah Bridge[34], a cantilever bridge[35], in India[36], founded in 1943[37].

Related Entities

India Tinku Acharya

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . Census of India 2011 (West Bengal): Haora District Primary Census Abstract. censusindia.gov.in. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  11. [12] ↑ . censusindia.gov.in. Retrieved . censusindia.gov.in. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . Census of India 2011 (West Bengal): Haora District Primary Census Abstract. censusindia.gov.in. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  19. [20] ↑ . Census of India 2011 (West Bengal): Haora District Primary Census Abstract. censusindia.gov.in. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . Census of India 2011 (West Bengal): Haora District Primary Census Abstract. censusindia.gov.in. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  31. [32] ↑ . Census of India 2011 (West Bengal): Haora District Primary Census Abstract. censusindia.gov.in. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  32. [33] ↑ . Census of India 2011 (West Bengal): Haora District Primary Census Abstract. censusindia.gov.in. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [35] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [36] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [37] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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    Authority → Howrah Municipal Corporation
    Female population → {'amount': '+515855'}
    Country → India
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