Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- West Bengal
- Division
- Presidency
- District
- North 24 Parganas
- Metro station
- Dum Dum Dum Dum Cantonment Jessore Road Jai Hind
- Railway station
- Dum Dum Cantonment Dum Dum Junction
- Established
- 1783 ; 243 years ago ( 1783 ) , (as Dum Dum Cantonment Board) 1929 ; 97 years ago ( 1929 ) (as Dum Dum Municipality)
- Type
- Municipality
- Body
- Dum Dum Municipality
- Chairman
- Harendra Singh
- Vice chairman
- Barun Natta
- Mla
- Arijit Bakshi , ( BJP )
- Total
- 9.73 km (3.76 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 11 m (36 ft)
- Density
- 11,800/km (30,600/sq mi)
- Official
- Bengali
- Additional official
- Hindi , English
- Time zone
- UTC+5:30 ( IST )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Official name
- দমদম
- Country
- India
- Located in
- Barrackpore subdivision
- Population
- 114786
- Area
- 9.23
- Elevation
- 11
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Official website
- dumdummunicipality.co.in
- Image
- Jessore Road - Dum Dum - Kolkata 2012-04-11 9428.JPG
- Households
- 27702
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- Commons category
- Dum Dum
- postal code
- 700055
- literate population
- 97997
- illiterate population
- 16789
- male population
- 58566
- female population
- 56220
- different from
- Dum Dum
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Dum Dum is a city and a municipality in the Kolkata Metropolitan Area of North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA). The Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport locally known as Kolkata Airport, is situated at Dum Dum. Dum Dum area was divided into three parts governed by three separate municipalities named as South Dum Dum, Dum Dum and North Dum Dum.
Etymology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dum Dum” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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