Cuttack district
Cuttack district is one of the 30 districts of Odisha state in India.
Cuttack district is one of the 30 districts of Odisha state in India. It is located in the coastal part of the state and its administrative headquarters are located in the city of Cuttack. As of 2011 Census, after Ganjam, it is the second most populous district of Odisha, with a population of 2,624,470. The name is an anglicized form of Kataka or Katak meaning Fort – referring to the Barabati Fort. The district is bisected by the river Mahanadi and its numerous distributaries and occupies a large portion of the river's delta. It is bounded by the Angul, Dhenkanal, Nayagarh and Khurda districts to the west while its southern and eastern boundaries touch Puri, Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapara and Jajpur districts.
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Worth seeing in and around Cuttack district
7 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.
- 01Barabati Fort
Barabati Fort is a 987 CE fort built by Marakata Keshari of Somavanshi dynasty in Cuttack, Odisha. The ruins of the fort remain with its moat, gate, and the earthen mound of the nine-storied palace.
3.9 km · Indian fort · Wikipedia - 02Museum of Justice, Orissa High Court
Museum of Justice, Orissa High Court is the museum dedicated to the journey of judiciary in Odisha from past to present. The museum houses various objects on Indian legal system starting from British Raj.
3.9 km · museum dedicated to the journey of judiciary in India · Wikipedia - 03Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Setu
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose Setu is a bridge over the river Kathajodi, a distributary of the Mahanadi connecting Belleview Point near Judicial Academy in Cuttack to Trishulia. The length of the bridge is 2.88 km and is the longest bridge in Odisha.
2 km · bridge in India · Wikipedia - 04Sri Sri University
Sri Sri University is an Indian private university, based in Cuttack, Odisha, established on 26 December 2009. The university came into operation in the year 2012.
4 km · state private university in Cuttack, Odisha, India · Wikipedia - 05Cuttack Chandi Temple
Kataka Chandi Mandir is a temple dedicated to the Hindu goddess Chandi in Kataka, Odisha, India, near the banks of the Mahanadi River.
3.3 km · temple in India · Wikipedia - 06Sailabala Women's College, Cuttack
Shailabala Women's College is a state run postgraduate, undergraduate and junior +2 women's government college on Madhusudan road in Cuttack, India. It is the first women's college of Odisha.
3.4 km · college in Odisha · Wikipedia - 07Utkal Gourab Madhusudan Setu
Utkal Gourab Madhusudan Setu is a bridge connecting Cuttack and Athagarh. This bridge over river Mahanadi reduces distance between Cuttack, Dhenkanal by 16 kilometres.
2.9 km · bridge in India · Wikipedia
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Getting to Cuttack district
- Airports
- Biju Patnaik (BBI), 24 km
- Kolkata → Cuttack districtTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Visakhapatnam → Cuttack districtTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Varanasi → Cuttack districtTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
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No local-transport research exists yet for Cuttack district
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 Cuttack district. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundHired cars, auto rickshaws and cycle rickshaws are readily available for moving around.
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Next door to Cuttack district
Cuttack district is 5 km from Cuttack, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Cuttacksecond largest city of Odisha, India3.9 km
- Behera Sahihuman settlement4 km
- Trisuliavillage in Cuttack district, Odisha, India3.7 km