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Bagdah

Bagdah
বাগদা সমষ্টি উন্নয়ন ব্লক
Community development block
Bagdah is located in West Bengal
Bagdah
Bagdah
Location in West Bengal, India
Coordinates: 23°13′N 88°53′E / 23.22°N 88.88°E / 23.22; 88.88Coordinates: 23°13′N 88°53′E / 23.22°N 88.88°E / 23.22; 88.88
Country  India
State West Bengal
District North 24 Parganas
Government
 • Type Community development block
Area
 • Total 233.05 km2 (89.98 sq mi)
Elevation 13 m (43 ft)
Population (2011)
 • Total 242,974
 • Density 1,000/km2 (2,700/sq mi)
Languages
 • Official Bengali, English
Literacy (2011)
 • Total literates 164,283 (75.30%)
Time zone IST (UTC+5:30)
PIN

743232 (Bagdah)
743297 (Sindrani)
743270

(Helencha Colony)
Telephone/STD code 03215
ISO 3166 code IN-WB
Vehicle registration WB-23, WB-24, WB-25, WB-26
Lok Sabha constituency Bangaon
Vidhan Sabha constituency Bagda
Website north24parganas.nic.in

743232 (Bagdah)
743297 (Sindrani)
743270

Bagdah (also spelled Bagda) is a community development block that forms an administrative division in Bangaon subdivision of North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Bagdah police station serves this block. Headquarters of this block is at Bagdah. It is located 73 km from Barasat, the district headquarters.

Bagdah is located at 23°13′N 88°53′E / 23.22°N 88.88°E / 23.22; 88.88.

Bagdah CD Block is bounded by Maheshpur Upazila in Jhenaidaha District, Chaugachha Upazila and Sharsha Upazila in Jessore District of Bangladesh in the north and east, Bangaon CD Block in the south and Hanskhali and Ranaghat II CD Blocks in Nadia district in the west.

Bagdah community development block has an area of 233.05 km2.

North 24 Parganas district is part of the Gangetic delta, lying east of the Hooghly River. The country is flat. It is a little raised above flood level and the highest ground borders the river channels. The rivers in the district were formerly distributaries of the Ganges but their mouths have long been filled up and blocked. The area is described as a sort of a drowned land broken by swamps. Land in the north-east of the district is higher than that of the rest of the district. The sturdy peasants raise crops of rice, jute and sugarcane from the alluvial soil. There are clumps of palm and fruit trees in which village homesteads nestle. Industrial activity is concentrated in the narrow strip of land along the Hooghly River. The south-eastern part of the district gradually merges into the Sunderbans. Parts of the metropolitan city of Kolkata extend over southern part of the district.


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