Cooch Behar
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Key facts
- Country
- India
- State
- West Bengal
- District
- Cooch Behar
- Established
- 12 September 1949
- Type
- Municipality
- Body
- Cooch Behar Municipality
- Chairman
- Rabindra Nath Ghosh ( All India Trinamool Congress )
- Total
- 8.29 km (3.20 sq mi)
- Density
- 832/km (2,150/sq mi)
- Official
- Bengali
- Additional official
- English, Rajbongshi
- Regional
- Bengali, Rajbongshi
- Time zone
- UTC+5:30 ( IST )
- Telephone code
- 03582
- Vehicle registration
- WB-64/63
- Lok sabha constituency
- Cooch Behar (SC)
- Vidhan sabha constituency
- Cooch Behar Uttar (SC) , Cooch Behar Dakshin , Natabari
- Website
- coochbehar .gov .in coochbeharmunicipality .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- India
- Population
- 77935
- Area
- 8.29
- Elevation
- 35
- Time zone
- UTC+05:30
- Capital of
- Cooch Behar district
- Official website
- www.coochbehar.nic.in
- Image
- Front view of Cooch Behar Palace, WB, IN 09.jpg
- Households
- 18431
- Dialing code
- 3582
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- postal code
- 736101
- different from
- Cooch Behar
- Commons category
- Cooch Behar
- male population
- 39014
- illiterate population
- 11531
- literate population
- 66404
- female population
- 38921
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Administrative map of Cooch Behar Cooch Behar ( Bengali pronunciation: [kot͡ʃ biɦar]), also known as Koch Bihar, is a city in the Indian state of West Bengal and it stands on bank of the Torsa river. The city is the headquarters of the Cooch Behar district. During the British Raj, Cooch Behar was the seat of the princely state of Cooch Behar. In the North Bengal region, the only planned city with royal heritage is Cooch Behar. The city is a popular tourist destination and cultural hub in Bengal.
Etymology
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cooch Behar” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.