Bangaon (Bengali: বনগাঁ BOHN-gãh) is a town of 110,000 people (2011) in the North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal. It acts as a stopover to places like Bibhutibhushan Wildlife Sanctuary and Petrapole.
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By train
- Bangaon Junction railway station, 23.0305°, 88.8329°. A part of the Kolkata Suburban Railway system. It is the last station on the Sealdah-Bangaon section of Eastern Railway, 77 km from Sealdah Station. 2022-07-29
By bus
Bangaon is well connected with others major places by buses, like Kolkata, Howrah, Habra, Basirhat, Bagdaha, Kalyani, Krishnanagar, Chakdaha, Ranaghat, Karimpur and Digha.
Get around
See
- Satbhai Kalitala Temple. An ancient Kali temple in Bangaon town.
- Ichamati River. The scenic beauty of the river can be seen from the Rakhaldas Bandyapadha Bridge and Rai Bridge built on the Ichamati River in Bangaon town.
- Rakhaldas Bandyapadhay Bridge
- Rai Bridge
- Shaheed Smriti Minar
- Petrapol is the largest land port in Asia
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Go next
- Petrapole — A town at India-Bangladesh border.