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Raiganj

City in West Bengal, India
Organization municipality_of_west_bengal Q2304045

Facts

16 properties
Instance of
municipality of West Bengal, big city[4]
Country
India[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 25.617°, 88.117°[8]
Capital of
Uttar Dinajpur district[10]
Area
+36.51[15]
Elevation above sea level
+40[14]
Female population
+87224[12]
Illiterate population
+51230[16]
Literate population
+132382[17]
Local dialing code
3523[7]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Raiganj subdivision[2]
Male population
+96388[13]
Number of households
+35326[11]
Population
+183612[9]
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Postal code
733134[6]
Shares border with
Malda district[5]
🏷️ Also known as
en Raiganj hi रायगंज ru Райгандж zh 赖根杰 zh-hant 賴根傑
🔖 Identifiers · 12
GND ID
129646363X
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Ghori More, Raiganj.jpg ↗
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Raiganj
Freebase ID
/m/08sf_0
GNS Unique Feature ID
-2108584
GeoNames ID
1259009
Indian census area code (2011)
801651
OpenStreetMap node ID
569440509
Quora topic ID
Raiganj-West-Bengal-India
SNARC ID
The Haunting in Connecticut
Topic's main category
Category:Raiganj
Who's on First ID
890508533

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20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
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🔗 Connections
Contained subdivisions 2
Raiganj Wildlife Sanctuary, Raiganj University
Capital of 1
Uttar Dinajpur district
Country 1
India
Instance of 1
big city
Located in time zone 1
UTC+05:30
SNARC ID 1
The Haunting in Connecticut
Shares border with 1
Malda district
← Capital 1
Uttar Dinajpur district
← Headquarters location 1
Desher Barta
← Significant place 1
Raiganj Wildlife Sanctuary
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Summary

Raiganj is a municipality of West Bengal[1].

Related Entities

India Raiganj University

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5w ago · Printstream · 2026-09-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    GND ID → 129646363X
    Located in time zone → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/56499|batch #56499]]: Import GND IDs via DNB dump"
  2. 15w ago · Dirac · 2026-07-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Literate population → {'amount': '+132382'}
    Population → {'amount': '+183612'}
    Capital of → Uttar Dinajpur district
    Shares border with → Malda district
    + 20 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Image: Ghori More, Raiganj.jpg, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/261402|batch #261402]]"
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