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Census Town in West Bengal, India

Balarāmpur

Balarampur is a census town in the Balarampur CD block in Purulia Sadar subdivision of the Purulia district in the state of West Bengal, India.

Balarāmpur
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The place

Balarampur is a census town in the Balarampur CD block in Purulia Sadar subdivision of the Purulia district in the state of West Bengal, India. Before Indian independence in 1947, it was the capital of an expensive zamindari of Barabhum in British India.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Balarāmpur

2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Balarampur College

    Balarampur is a census town in the Balarampur CD block in Purulia Sadar subdivision of the Purulia district in the state of West Bengal, India. Before Indian independence in 1947, it was the capital of an expensive zamindari of Barabhum in British India.

    1.9 km · College of West Bengal · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Kana, West Bengal

    Kana is an Upper Paleolithic archaeological site located in Purulia district of Eastern Indian state West Bengal. The archeological site containing the microblade artefacts belongs to the Manbazar Formation of the Kumari Basin.

    1.2 km · archaeological site · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Balarāmpur

Airports
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose (CCU), 234 km
Stations
Barabhum railway station, 3.3 km · Urma railway station, 5.4 km
  • Kolkata → Balarāmpur
    227 km · quickest by road, 5h 5m · ₹1,900–2,370
  • Bhubaneswar → Balarāmpur
    317 km · quickest by road, 6h 7m · ₹2,660–3,320
  • Varanasi → Balarāmpur
    409 km · quickest by road, 7h 24m · ₹3,170–3,960
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Balarāmpur

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Balarāmpur. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Sagar Island and GangasagarIN

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    251 km
  2. 02
    Sohra (Cherrapunji)IN

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    607 km
  3. 03
    Dawki and ShnongpdengIN

    9 ways of moving, 23 sources

    631 km
  4. 04
    GhandrukNP

    8 ways of moving, 32 sources

    632 km
  5. 05
    TawangIN

    7 ways of moving, 24 sources

    754 km

If you know how people move in Balarāmpur – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Balarāmpur

Balarāmpur is 35 km from Jamshedpur, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.