Chowringhee
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Chowringhee (also Chourangi) is a neighbourhood of Central Kolkata, in Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Chowringhee Road (officially Jawaharlal Nehru Road) runs on its western side. A neighbourhood steeped in history, it is a business district, as well as a shopper's destination and entertainment-hotel centre. The area lies exactly at the centre of the city.
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Vinony's link graph records 312 inbound references to Chowringhee, and connects out to Esplanade, Ballygunge and New Market.
The entry is geolocated on the map in WB, across 2 mapped points.
It sits within the topics Neighbourhoods in Kolkata and Shopping districts and streets in India.
Vinony links it to 7 Wikipedia language editions.
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- India
- Elevation
- 36
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Encyclopedic overview
11 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- The village
- Urbanisation
- The neighbourhood
- New names
- Geography
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- External links
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Chowringhee (also Chourangi) is a neighbourhood of Central Kolkata, in Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Chowringhee Road (officially Jawaharlal Nehru Road) runs on its western side. A neighbourhood steeped in history, it is a business district, as well as a shopper's destination and entertainment-hotel centre. The area lies exactly at the centre of the city.
==Etymology== The name 'Chowringhee' has defied etymologists. There is, however, the legend of a Nath yogi, Chouranginath, who discovered an image of the goddess Kali's face and built the first Kalighat temple.
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2 mapped locations