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Location of Kolkata. Kolkata is located in the eastern part of India. It has spread linearly along the banks of the Hooghly River. The Kolkata Municipal Corporation has an area of 205 square kilometres. [1] The city is near sea level, with the average elevation being 17 feet. [2]
Kolkata district lies between 22.037’ and 22.030’ North latitude and 88.023’ and 88.018’ East longitude. It occupies the east bank of the Hooghly in the lower Ganges Delta. The alluvial plain has an average elevation of 6.4 metres (17 feet) above mean sea level. A large part of the district comprises land reclaimed from wetland.
Kolkata, [a] also known as Calcutta [b] (its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal. It lies on the eastern bank of the Hooghly River, 80 km (50 mi) west of the border with Bangladesh. It is the primary financial and commercial centre of eastern and northeastern India. [16]
The capital of the state is Kolkata – the third-largest urban agglomeration [3] and the seventh-largest city [4] in India. Asansol is the second largest city and urban agglomeration in West Bengal after Kolkata. [3] Siliguri is an economically important city, strategically located in the northeastern Siliguri Corridor (Chicken's Neck) of India.
sea level 2436 m 7,992 ft Myanmar: Hkakabo Razi: 5881 m 19,295 ft Indian Ocean: sea level 5881 m 19,295 ft Namibia: Königstein: 2573 m 8,442 ft South Atlantic Ocean: sea level 2573 m 8,442 ft Nauru: Command Ridge: 65 m 213 ft South Pacific Ocean: sea level 65 m 213 ft Nepal: Mount Everest [i] [ae] 8849 m 29,032 ft Mukhiyapatti Musharniya: 59 m ...
Located at an elevation of None meters (0 feet) above sea level, city's yearly temperature is 30.28 °C (86.5 °F) and it is 4.31% higher than India's averages. Dankuni typically receives about 150.21 millimeters (5.91 inches) of precipitation and has 150.54 rainy days (41.24% of the time) annually.
ASL – above sea level [4] FAMSL – feet above mean sea level [5] FASL – feet above sea level [6] MAMSL – metres above mean sea level [5] MASL – metres above sea level [5] [6] MSL – mean sea level [7] For elevations or altitudes, often just the abbreviation MSL is used, e.g., Mount Everest (8849 m MSL), or the reference to sea level ...
The following is a list of the world's major cities (either capitals, more than one million inhabitants or an elevation of over 1,000 m [3,300 ft]) by elevation. In addition, the country, continental region, latitude and longitude are shown for all cities listed.