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Kālna

Kalna or Ambika Kalna is a town in the Purba Bardhaman district of West Bengal, India.

Kālna
Kālna · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Kalna or Ambika Kalna is a town in the Purba Bardhaman district of West Bengal, India. It is the headquarter of the Kalna subdivision, situated on the western bank of the Bhāgirathi river. The town is more popularly known as Ambika Kalna, named after the goddess Kali, Maa Ambika. It has numerous historical monuments, such as the Rajbari, and 108 Shiva temples. The city of Kalna is 60 kilometres (37 mi) from Bardhaman.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kālna

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
    Siddheshwari Kali temple

    Siddheshwari Kali Mandir is a Śākta temple in Kalna City in Purba Bardhaman district of West Bengal. The Hindu goddess Kali or Kalika is worshiped in the form of Siddheshwari in this temple.

    1.2 km · temple in Kalna · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Kalna College

    Kalna College, established in 1943, is a college in Kalna, Purba Bardhaman district, West Bengal, India. It offers undergraduate courses in arts, commerce, and sciences.

    500 m · college in Kalna, India · Wikipedia

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Getting to Kālna

Airports
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose (CCU), 63 km · Hazrat Shahjalal (DAC), 220 km
Stations
Baghnapara railway station, 3.6 km · Ambika Kalna railway station, 700 m
  • Kolkata → Kālna
    73 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · ₹610–760
  • Siliguri → Kālna
    388 km · quickest by road, 8h 14m · ₹3,330–4,160
  • Bhubaneswar → Kālna
    419 km · quickest by air, 6h 27m · ₹6,390–9,510
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Kālna

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 Kālna. 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

    176 km
  2. 02
    Sohra (Cherrapunji)IN

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    411 km
  3. 03
    Dawki and ShnongpdengIN

    9 ways of moving, 23 sources

    431 km
  4. 04
    TawangIN

    7 ways of moving, 24 sources

    600 km
  5. 05
    ViswemaIN

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    642 km

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Around it

Next door to Kālna

Kālna is 39 km from Bhātpāra, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.