Kolkata Metropolitan Area (Makhla)

India / Bangla / Baranagar / Makhla
 invisible, urban/built-up area
This Polygon shows the Kolkata Metropolitan Area.
Kolkata Metropolitan Area should not be confused with Kolkata District as Kolkata Metropolitan Area is larger than Kolkata district or Kolkata City. Kolkata District and Kolkata City are same. The Kolkata Metropolitan Area consists of Kolkata District along with Sub-urban areas. Kolkata Metropolitan Area (KMA) extended to north upto Kalyani (Nadia district) and Bansberia (Hooghly district), to south upto Budge Budge (South 24 Parganas district) and to west upto Uluberia (Howrah district). Kolkata Metropolitan Area consists of 3 Municipal Corporations (including Kolkata Municipal Corporation) and 38 municipalities and 22 Panchayat Samities.

Some Information of Kolkata Metropolis -
Gateway to the East: The Most Preferred Urban Destination of India after 2015
Legend: Past, Present and Future.

Former Capital of British India until 1911,, the River Port City of Kolkata in eastern India is the State Capital of West Bengal, 175 kms upstream from the Bay of Bengal.

Some 300 years back, Job Charnok of the British East India Trading Company took lease of three villages on the eastern bank of River Hoogly, namely, Kalikotha, Govindapur and Sutanuti from the Roychowdhuries of Sabarna and the City of Calcutta, now Kolkata came into existence, deriving it's name from the village Kalikotha (the abode of Goddess Kali). One of India's largest metropolises with around 10 million people, it is the epi centre of rich Bengali culture and tradition and is now aptly projected as the Gateway to the Eastern Hemisphere.

Kolkata was instrumental in India's struggle for independence. Visionaries like Swami Vivekanada, Raja Rammohan Roy, Nobel Laureate World Poet Rabindranath Tagore, a great charismatic leader like Netaji Subhas Shandra Bose, Scientists Jagadish Chandra Bose and Prof. Satyen Bose and the maestro filmmaker Satyajit Ray, all belong to the City along with other distinguished and eminent personalities from different spheres of life like dancer Udayshankar and his brother sitar maestro Ravishankar, Nobel Laureate economist Amartya Sen and the creator of Indrajaal, the magician per excellence P.C. Sorcar Sr. who all made Kolkata proud and famous. To the outer world, Kolkata is also famous as the City where Mother Teresa lived and died serving the poor and the destitute. One of the most famous cricketers and India's most successful captain, Sourav Ganguly hails from this city. World famous tennis player Leander Paes belong to the city.

External Links :
Map web.archive.org/web/20040606103522/www.censusindia.net/...
PDF EBook of KMA www.kmdaonline.org/pdf/CMP-KMA.pdf
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolkata_metropolitan_area
Nearby cities:
Coordinates:   22°40'15"N   88°19'41"E

Comments

  • Congrats! For creating a new tag. Waiting for wider information on Kolkata beyond Sealdah! Please develop it fast..
  • Arnout: Thanks for your interest in this region. Hope all mapping problems etc., of the area will be sorted out in no time. The polygon of the Calcutta Metropoliton District is depicted above in the pix map. The area is also described in the article above. Let me know, if I may be of any help otherwise, as I belong to this city.
  • Arnout: Thanks indeed for your assurance. I think I got almost the right polygon of the Calcutta Metropoliton District as per actual Map as shown in the photo above. Refinement and embellishment is no problem but what about the active vandals of the region!!!!!!!
  • It's good to see Kolkata Metropoliton District in proper perspective now. Hope some knowledgeable and competent wikimapian belonging to the region will develop this tag to our delight.
  • Rogue vandals as clones are rampant here. Wikimapia is infested with these scums for long for reasons best known to the higherups, spoiling the broth. This is simply disgusting for the healthy wikimapians like me. I pity them, and God have mercy on them for they knoweth not what they are doing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!141010
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  • It's encouraging to learn about the wikimapia 'Cityguide' for Kolkata is absolutely the replica in toto as above formulated and conceived by an esteemed user from the region 'Boogiram' who has made all of us proud with his notable and sizable contributions to the site.
  • Kolkatta is the lands of india in the east, it is so funny here, I ate some food here got loose motions and shat potty and my maggot infested intestines gave way. Happy time in Kolkata
  • Dirty city of India... Most crowded city...People throw wastes whereever they want... Water and air is highly polluted here...Bus drivers and conductors smoke inside crowded bus...Traffic jam not happen due to cars or buses but due to handpulling carts, rickshaws,cycles..
  • cheap place dud
  • After all, City of joy..
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  • i love kolkata....
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