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Sealdah
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Sealdah is a neighbourhood of Central Kolkata in Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
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Within Vinony's link graph, Sealdah is referenced by 391 other articles, and connects out to Sealdah railway station, B. B. D. Bagh and Ballygunge.
The entry is geolocated on the map in WB, across 4 mapped points.
It is catalogued under the topic Neighbourhoods in Kolkata.
Its subject is documented across 4 Wikipedia language editions.
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Sealdah is a neighbourhood of Central Kolkata in Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
==Etymology== Jackals (sheal in Bengali) howled around Sealdah. Antiquarians identify it as Shrigaldwipa (Jackal Island). Nearby Beliaghata was a port in the Salt Lakes.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sealdah” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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