Discover the best top things to do in Howrah District, India including Vivekananda Setu, Belur Math, Second Hooghly Bridge, Panitras Samtaber, Sarat Chandra Kuthi, Bangeshwar Mahadev, Shree Shyam Mandir Ghusuridham, Nivedita Bridge, Howrah Municipal Corporation Archives, Uluberia Kalibari.
West Bengal (/wɛst bɛŋˈɡɔːl/) is an Indian state, located in Eastern India on the Bay of Bengal. With over 91 million inhabitants (as of 2011), it is India's fourth-most populous state. It has an area of 88,752 km (34,267 sq mi). A part of the ethno-linguistic Bengal region, it borders Bangladesh in the east, and Nepal and Bhutan in the north. It also borders the Indian states of Odisha, Jharkhand, Bihar, Sikkim, and Assam. The state capital is Kolkata (Calcutta), the seventh-largest city in India. As for geography, West Bengal includes the Darjeeling Himalayan hill region, the Ganges delta, the Rarh region, and the coastal Sundarbans. The main ethnic group are the Bengalis, with Bengali Hindus forming the demographic majority.
Howrah or Haora (/ˈhaʊrə/) is an industrial city in West Bengal, India, that has developed into an urban agglomeration, alongside its twin city Kolkata, as the Kolkata metropolitan area. Howrah is located on the west bank of the Hooghly River, and is the headquarters of the district, and of the Howrah Sadar subdivision of the district. It is the second largest city in West Bengal after Kolkata. Howrah is famous for hosting one of the busiest train stations in India, as well as for the four bridges that connect it to Kolkata. Howrah is currently the location of the Government of West Bengal state secretariat and the Chief Minister's Office.
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