Kolkata

Kolkata Calcutta
Ceety
Clockwise frae top: Victoria Memorial, St. Paul's Cathedral, central business destrict, Howrah Bridge, ceety tram line, Vidyasagar Bridge
Eik-name(s):  Ceety o Joy
Kolkata Location o Kolkata in India
Coordinates: 22°34′22″N 88°21′50″E / 22.57278°N 88.36389°E / 22.57278; 88.36389Coordinates: 22°34′22″N 88°21′50″E / 22.57278°N 88.36389°E / 22.57278; 88.36389
Kintra	Indie
State	Wast Bengal
Diveesion	Presidency
Destrict	Kolkata[A]
Govrenment
• Teep	Mayor–Cooncil
• Bodi	KMC
• Mayor	Sovan Chatterjee[1]
• Sheriff	Indrajit Ray[2]
• Police commissioner	Ranjit Kumar Pachnanda[3]
Area
• Ceety	185 km2 (71 sq mi)
• Metro	1886.67 km2 (728.45 sq mi)
Elevation	9 m (30 ft)
Population  (2011)[4][5]
• Ceety	4,496,694
• Rank	7t
• Density	24,000/km2 (63,000/sq mi)
• Metro [6]	14,112,536
• Metropolitan rank	3rd
Demonym(s)	Kolkatan
Time zone	UTC+05:30 (IST)
ZIP code(s)	7000 xx, 7001 xx
Area code(s)	+91-33
Vehicle registration	WB 01–79
UN/LOCODE	IN CCU
Spoken leids	Bengali, Inglis, Hindi, Urdu
Ethnicity	Bengali, Marwari, Bihari, Ither
Website	www.kmcgov.in
↑ The Kolkata metropolitan aurie includes portions o North 24 Parganas, South 24 Parganas, Howrah, Nadia, an Hooghly destricts an aw. See: Urban structure.

Kolkata (Bengali: কলকাতা [ˈkolkat̪a]), umwhile kent as Calcutta, kent in Scots as Cawcuttie an aw, is the caipital o the Indie state o Wast Bengal. Kolkata is the commercial caipital o Eastren Indie, locatit on the east bank o the Hooghly River.^[7] The Kolkata metropolitan aurie, includin suburbs, haes a population exceedin 15 million, makin it the third maist populous metropolitan aurie in Indie an the 13t maist populous urban aurie in the warld. The ceety is an aa clessifee'd as the aicht lairgest urban agglomeration in the warld.^[8]

Kolkata served as the caipital o Indie durin the Breetish Raj till 1901. It is said that the Breetish coud no cope up wi the lang lastin monsoons in Eastren Indie an fled tae northren Indie, an merked New Delhi as the new Naitional Caipital. The ceety is notit for its revolutionary history, rangin frae the Indian struggle for unthirldom tae the leftist an trade union movements. Ance the centre o modren eddication, science, cultur an politics in Indie, Kolkata witnessed economic stagnation in the years follaein Indie's unthirldom in 1947. Housomeivver, syne the year 2000, an economic rejuvenation haes led tae an acceleration in the ceety's growthe. Lik ither metropolitan ceeties o Indie, Kolkata continues tae struggle wi urbanisation problems lik poverty, pollution an traffic congestion.

1. ↑ "Sovan Chatterjee to be new Kolkata mayor". Hindustan Times. New Delhi. 6 Juin 2010. Archived frae the original on 19 Julie 2011. Retrieved 26 Apryle 2011.
2. ↑ "Doctor to be next sheriff". Times of India. New Delhi. 5 Januar 2011. Archived frae the original on 6 Mey 2013. Retrieved 27 Januar 2012.
3. ↑ "Pachnanda selected as new Calcutta Police Commissioner". The Telegraph. Kolkata. 17 Mairch 2011. Archived frae the original on 31 Julie 2013. Retrieved 26 Februar 2012.
4. ↑ "Kolkata Municipal Corporation Demographics". Census of India. Retrieved 3 Juin 2016.
5. ↑ "District Census Handbook - Kolkata" (PDF). Census of India. The Registrar General & Census Commissioner. p. 43. Retrieved 13 Mey 2016.
6. ↑ "Urban agglomerations/cities having population 1 million and above" (PDF). Provisional population totals, census of India 2011. Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. 2011. Retrieved 26 Januar 2012.
7. ↑ The Monthly Repository and Library of Entertaining Knowledge. 1833. p. 338.
8. ↑ "World Urbanization Prospects: The 2005 revision" (PDF). Archived frae the original (PDF) on 3 October 2018. Retrieved 3 Apryle 2011.