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Howrah Bridge

cantilever bridge in Kolkata, India
Place cantilever_bridge Q739641

Facts

17 properties
Instance of
cantilever bridge, steel bridge[5]
Inception
1943[11]
Country
India[4]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 22.585°, 88.347°
Carries thoroughfare
Mahatma Gandhi Road[18]
Crosses
Hooghly River[8]
Date of official opening
February 3, 1943[15]
Designed by
James Meadows Rendel[10]
Height
+85[17]
Heritage designation
KMC Heritage Building Grade I[14]
Length
+655.7[16]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Ward No. 22, Kolkata Municipal Corporation, Howrah[2][3]
Located on street
Strand Road[12]
Made from material
steel[9]
Named after
Rabindranath Tagore, Howrah[6][7]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
Wiki Loves Monuments in India[19]
Structure replaces
Old Howrah Bridge[13]
🏷️ Also known as
en Howrah Bridge en New Howrah Bridge en Rabindra Setu ar جسر هوراه cs Howrah Bridge cs Rabíndra setu es puente de Howrah fr pont de Howrah he גשר האורה hi रवीन्द्र सेतु it ponte di Howrah ja ハウラー橋 nl Haorabrug th สะพานหาวฑา zh 豪拉大桥
🔖 Identifiers · 7
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Howrah Bridge12.jpg ↗
BabelNet ID
00999811n
Brueckenweb ID
269
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/Rabindra-Setu
Freebase ID
/m/05ts5y
Quora topic ID
Howrah-Bridge-1
Topic's main category
Category:Howrah Bridge

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Named after 2
Rabindranath Tagore, Howrah
Country 1
India
Crosses 1
Hooghly River
Instance of 1
cantilever bridge
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Howrah
Made from material 1
steel
← FactGrid item ID 1
Oleksandrivka
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Summary

Howrah Bridge is a cantilever bridge[1].

Related Entities

Hooghly River India Rabindranath Tagore

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 23w ago · ᱤᱧ ᱢᱟᱛᱟᱞ · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Heritage designation → KMC Heritage Building Grade I
    Country → —
    Crosses → Hooghly River
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Ward No. 22, Kolkata Municipal Corporation, Howrah
    + 21 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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