Kurseong
Sign in to saveKurseong (, ) is a town and a municipality in Darjeeling district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the headquarters of the Kurseong subdivision.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Kurseong
- Settlement.nickname
- The School Town
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Kurseong panorama by Mayukh Ghose.jpg
- Settlement.image_alt
- Panorama of Kurseong with TV tower in the background
- Settlement.image_caption
- Panorama of Kurseong
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- India West Bengal#India3
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- left
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in West Bengal, India
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- State
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- West Bengal
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Darjeeling
- Settlement.government_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.governing_body
- Kurseong Municipality
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 7.50
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Country
- India
- Population
- 42446
- Area
- 5.05
- Elevation
- 1500
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Official website
- kurseongmunicipality.org/home.php
- Image
- Once upon evening at kuerseong.jpg
- Households
- 6616
- Dialing code
- 0354
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- Commons category
- Kurseong
- postal code
- 734203
- male population
- 21423
- illiterate population
- 6041
- literate population
- 36405
- female population
- 21023
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
via Wikidata · CC0
~16 min read
Encyclopedic overview
25 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- Geography
- Location
- Area overview
- Sights
- Religious sites
- Natural sites
- Museums
- Other sites
- Civic administration
- Library
- Education
- University Colleges
- Schools of Kurseong
- Higher Secondary Vocational
- Transport
- Demographics
- Languages
- Religion
- Media and communications
- Notable residents
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
Kurseong (, ) is a town and a municipality in Darjeeling district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the headquarters of the Kurseong subdivision.
Located at an altitude of , Kurseong is from Darjeeling and has a pleasant climate throughout the year.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kurseong” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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