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Jafarpur

Jafarpur is a census town in Barrackpore II CD Block in Barrackpore subdivision in North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

The place

Jafarpur is a census town in Barrackpore II CD Block in Barrackpore subdivision in North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Jafarpur

6 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
    St. Olav's Church, Serampore

    St. Olav's Church is a protestant church in Serampore, West Bengal, India.

    5.2 km · building in India · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Serampore College

    Serampore College is located in Serampore, in West Bengal, India. Established in 1818, it is the fourth oldest college in the country after Old Seminary, Kottayam, CMS College, Kottayam and Presidency College in Kolkata, and one of the oldest continuously operating educational institutes in India.

    4.8 km · college in Serampore, Hooghly · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Swami Vivekananda University, Barrackpore

    Swami Vivekananda University is a private university in Barrackpore, North 24 Parganas district, West Bengal. Approved by the West Bengal Legislative Assembly in November 2019.

    2.7 km · state private university in North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Annapurna Mandir

    Annapurna Temple, is a Hindu temple navaratna heritage situated on the bank of the Ganges at Rasmani ghat at Titagarh, Barrackpore in North 24 Paragana. The temple is similar to the Bhavatarini temple at Dakshineswar.

    4.2 km · temple in West Bengal · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Government College of Engineering & Textile Technology Serampore

    The Government College of Engineering & Textile Technology, Serampore is an engineering college in Serampore, West Bengal, India.

    4.8 km · engineering College in West Bengal · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Danish cemetery, Serampore

    Danish Cemetery, Serampore is a colonial cemetery situated in Serampore, Hooghly district, in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is one of the most notable Danish cemeteries in South Asia.

    5.3 km · Christian cemetery in Serampore, West Bengal · 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 Jafarpur

Airports
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose (CCU), 16 km · Hazrat Shahjalal (DAC), 237 km
Stations
Barrackpore Air Force Station, 2.8 km · Shrirampur railway station, 5.8 km · Barrackpore railway station, 2.9 km · Seoraphuli Junction railway station, 6 km · Ichhapur railway station, 2.3 km
  • Bhubaneswar → Jafarpur
    384 km · quickest by air, 4h 13m · ₹5,460–8,390
  • Siliguri → Jafarpur
    437 km · quickest by air, 4h 33m · ₹6,070–9,320
  • Guwahati → Jafarpur
    509 km · quickest by air, 5h 7m · ₹6,590–10,090
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Jafarpur

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 Jafarpur. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get in{{go | name | url | address 22.760326 | long | phone | hours | wikidata=Q24884069 | lastedit=2025-08-29 | content By car By ferry ===

From Wikivoyage: Barrackpore, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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

    11 ways of moving, 15 sources

    130 km
  2. 02
    Sohra (Cherrapunji)IN

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    438 km
  3. 03
    Dawki and ShnongpdengIN

    9 ways of moving, 23 sources

    455 km
  4. 04
    TawangIN

    7 ways of moving, 24 sources

    638 km
  5. 05
    ViswemaIN

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    661 km

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

Around it

Next door to Jafarpur

Jafarpur is 6 km from Shyamnagar, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.