Dhanyakuria
Sign in to saveDhanyakuria is a census town in the Basirhat II CD block in the Basirhat subdivision in the North 24 Parganas district in the state of West Bengal, India.
Key facts
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- IST
- Settlement.name
- Dhanyakuria
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Census Town
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- GAYEN CASTLE AT DHANNAKURIYA.jpg
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- Dhanyakuria castle
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- India West Bengal#India3
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- Location in West Bengal, India
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- Country
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- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- West Bengal
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- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- North 24 Parganas
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- Metric
- Settlement.population_total
- 5,148
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- 2011
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- auto
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- Official
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- India
- Population
- 5148
- Households
- 1306
- Dialing code
- 03217
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- postal code
- 743486
- male population
- 2640
- illiterate population
- 1079
- literate population
- 4069
- female population
- 2508
- Commons category
- Dhanyakuria
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Dhanyakuria is a census town in the Basirhat II CD block in the Basirhat subdivision in the North 24 Parganas district in the state of West Bengal, India.
The town is home to the Gain Castle, a prominent rajbari or mansion owned by the local Gain family which traces its ancestry to Mahendranath Gain, a wealthy 18th century Bengali landowner from eastern Bengal.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dhanyakuria” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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