Alipurduar
Sign in to saveAlipurduar (), is a city in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the headquarters of the Alipurduar district and Alipurduar railway division of NFR. It is situated in the Western Dooars natural region, on the banks of Kaljani River in the foothills of the Himalayas. The city is a gateway to Bhutan.
Key facts
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- Alipurduar
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- City
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- India West Bengal#India3
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- left
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- Location in West Bengal, India
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- Country
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- State
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- District
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- West Bengal
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- Alipurduar
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- Municipality
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- Alipurduar Municipality
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- Chairman
- Settlement.leader_name1
- Prasenjit Kar (AITC)
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- Vice-Chairman
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- Mampi Adhikary (AITC)
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- Lok Sabha MP
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- Manoj Tigga (BJP)
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- India
- Population
- 65232
- Area
- 9.8
- Elevation
- 93
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Capital of
- Alipurduar district
- Official website
- alipurduar.ne1.in
- Image
- Alipurduar Railway Junction Station.jpg
- Households
- 15556
- Dialing code
- 3564
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- postal code
- 736121
- Commons category
- Alipurduar
- inception
- 1957-02-07
- male population
- 33137
- female population
- 32095
- literate population
- 54418
- illiterate population
- 10814
- P12749
- 47 BC
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Encyclopedic overview
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- References
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Alipurduar (), is a city in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the headquarters of the Alipurduar district and Alipurduar railway division of NFR. It is situated in the Western Dooars natural region, on the banks of Kaljani River in the foothills of the Himalayas. The city is a gateway to Bhutan.
==Etymology== Alipurduar's name originates from Colonel Hedayat Ali Khan, a British officer who fought in the 1865 Bhutan War and was stationed there, combined with "Duar" (or Door), representing its role as a gateway to the Dooars region of the Himalayas.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alipurduar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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