Kolkata, West Bengal, India


🇮🇳 Kolkata is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the prime business, commercial, and financial hub of eastern India and the main port of communication for the North-East Indian states, as well as having the third-largest urban economy of India.

The Port of Kolkata is India's oldest operating port and its sole major river port. Kolkata is known as the "cultural capital of India" for the city's historical and architectural significance.

Kolkata is home to West Bengal's film industry Tollywood and cultural institutions, such as the Academy of Fine Arts, the Victoria Memorial, the Asiatic Society, the Indian Museum, and the National Library of India. Among scientific institutions, Kolkata hosts the Agri Horticultural Society of India, the Geological Survey of India, the Botanical Survey of India, the Calcutta Mathematical Society, the Indian Science Congress Association, the Zoological Survey of India, the Institution of Engineers, the Anthropological Survey of India and the Indian Public Health Association. Though home to major cricketing venues and franchises, Kolkata differs from other Indian cities by focusing on association football and other sports.

Kolkata is the commercial and financial hub of East and North-East India and home to the Calcutta Stock Exchange. It is a major commercial and military port, and has an international airport. Recent estimates of the economy of Kolkata's metropolitan area have ranged from $150 to $250 billion (PPP GDP), and have ranked it third-most productive metro area of India.

Flexible production has been the norm in Kolkata, which has an informal sector that employs more than 40% of the labour force. One unorganised group, roadside hawkers, generated business worth ₹ 87.72 billion (US$ 2 billion) in 2005. As of 2001, around 0.81% of the city's workforce was employed in the primary sector (agriculture, forestry, mining, etc.); 15.49% worked in the secondary sector (industrial and manufacturing); and 83.69% worked in the tertiary sector (service industries).

As in many other Indian cities, information technology became a high-growth sector in Kolkata starting in the late 1990s; the city's IT sector grew at 70% per annum—a rate that was twice the national average. The 2000s saw a surge of investments in the real estate, infrastructure, retail, and hospitality sectors; several large shopping malls and hotels were launched. Companies such as ITC Limited, CESC Limited, Exide Industries, Emami, Eveready Industries India, Lux Industries, Rupa Company, Berger Paints, Birla Corporation and Britannia Industries are headquartered in the city. Philips India, PricewaterhouseCoopers India, Tata Global Beverages, Tata Steel have their registered office and zonal headquarters in Kolkata. Kolkata hosts the headquarters of three major public-sector banks: Allahabad Bank, UCO Bank, and the United Bank of India; and a private bank Bandhan Bank. Reserve Bank of India has its eastern zonal office in Kolkata, and India Government Mint, Kolkata is one of the four mints in India. Some of the oldest public sector companies are headquartered in the city such as the Coal India Limited, National Insurance Company, Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers, Tea Board of India, Geological Survey of India, Zoological Survey of India, Botanical Survey of India, Jute Corporation of India, National Test House, Hindustan Copper and the Ordnance Factories Board of the Indian Ministry of Defence.

Kolkata has links with: Dhaka, Bangladesh • Kunming, China • Thessaloniki, Greece • Naples, Italy • Karachi, Pakistan • Incheon, South Korea • Odessa, Ukraine • Jersey City, New Jersey, United States • Long Beach, California, United States • Dallas, Texas, United States

Kolkata, West Bengal, India - Victoria Memorial 
Kolkata, West Bengal, India - Victoria Memorial
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Kolkata is rated Gamma + by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network (GaWC) which evaluates and ranks the relationships between world cities in the context of globalisation. Gamma level cities are cities that link smaller economic regions into the world economy.

Kolkata is rated D+ by the Global Urban Competitiveness Report (GUCR) which evaluates and ranks world cities in the context of economic competitiveness. D+ cities are strong regional hub cities. Kolkata was ranked #862 by the Nomad List which evaluates and ranks remote work hubs by cost, internet, fun and safety. Kolkata has a population of over 4,486,679 people. Kolkata also forms the centre of the wider Kolkata metropolitan area which has a population of over 14,850,000 people. Kolkata is ranked #214 for startups with a score of 1.835.

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Twin Towns - Sister Cities Kolkata has links with:

🇻🇳 Da Nang City, Vietnam 🇺🇸 Dallas, USA 🇧🇩 Dhaka, Bangladesh 🇺🇸 Jersey City, USA 🇨🇳 Kunming, China 🇺🇸 Long Beach, USA 🇮🇹 Naples, Italy 🇺🇦 Odesa, Ukraine 🇬🇷 Thessaloniki, Greece 🇨🇳 Wuhan, China
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  • Edwin Alfred Rickards |

    🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Architect/Painter/Sculptor/Ilustrator Edwin Alfred Rickards is associated with Kolkata. Rickards was member of the Art Workers Guild and a Fellow of the RIBA.

  • William Emerson |

    🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Architect William Emerson is associated with Kolkata. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (FRIBA) in 1873.

  • Douglas Edison Harding |

    🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Architect Douglas Edison Harding is associated with Kolkata. He become interested mysticism on which he wrote and lectured extensively after the war.

  • James Ransome |

    🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Architect James Ransome is associated with Kolkata. From 1902 to 1907 he was Consulting Architect to the Government of India.

  • Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel |

    🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Architect Harry Stuart Goodhart-Rendel is associated with Kolkata. An accomplished composer, he studied music at Trinity College, Cambridge.

Antipodal to Kolkata is: -91.629,-22.571

Locations Near: Kolkata 88.3712,22.5705

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🇧🇩 Chuadanga 88.856,23.644 d: 129.2  

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