Kolkata (ind)

Kolkata

Kolkata ranks 116th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Shanghai, Brussels, and Kraków. Memorable people born in Kolkata include Rabindranath Tagore, Swami Vivekananda, and A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Memorable people who died in Kolkata include Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, Toru Dutt, and Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati. Kolkata has been the birth place of many actors, and writers and the death place of many writers, and politicians. Kolkata is located in India.

Kolkata, also known as Calcutta, 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. Kolkata is the seventh most populous city in India with an estimated city proper population of 4.5 million (0.45 crore) while its metropolitan region Kolkata Metropolitan Area is the third most populous metropolitan region of India with a metro population of over 15 million. Kolkata is regarded by many sources as the cultural capital of India and a historically and culturally significant city in the historic region of Bengal. Read more on Wikipedia