Bārākpur
Barrackpore, also spelled as Barrackpur, is a city and a municipality of Kolkata in North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.
Barrackpore, also spelled as Barrackpur, is a city and a municipality of Kolkata in North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is the headquarters of the Barrackpore subdivision. The city is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA).
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Bārākpur
8 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.
- 01West Bengal State University
State public university in North 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India
7.1 km · Wikipedia - 02
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- 08Government College of Engineering & Textile Technology Serampore
Engineering College in West Bengal
2 km · 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.
What Wikivoyage says to see
- 01Gandhi Ghat
- 02Gandhi Memorial Museum
- 03Government House
The former riverside suburban residence of the Governor-General of India and later the Viceroy of India.
- 04Lady Canning's Grave
Wife of viceroy Lord Canning, Charlotte Canning was a painter and a naturalist.
- 05Mangal Pandey's
- 06Netaji Open University
Originally a residence of Rastraguru Surendranath Banerjee, who used to live here for a considerable period of time.
From Wikivoyage: Bārākpur, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Things to do
Jawahar Kunj.
- 01Mangal Pandey Park
- 02Sukanta Sadan
From Wikivoyage: Bārākpur, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.
Getting to Bārākpur
- Airports
- Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose (CCU), 14 km · Hazrat Shahjalal (DAC), 240 km
- Stations
- Barrackpore Air Force Station, 2.7 km · Shrirampur railway station, 3.3 km · Seoraphuli Junction railway station, 4.6 km · Barrackpore railway station, 100 m · Mankundu railway station, 9.9 km
- Bhubaneswar → Bārākpur381 km · quickest by air, 4h 12m · ₹5,450–8,390
- Siliguri → Bārākpur439 km · quickest by air, 4h 32m · ₹6,070–9,320
- Guwahati → Bārākpur511 km · quickest by air, 5h 6m · ₹6,580–10,080
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No local-transport research exists yet for Bārākpur
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 Bārākpur. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Next door to Bārākpur
Bārākpur is 8 km from Pānihāti, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- SeramporeCity in West Bengal, India3.3 km
- PanihatiCity in West Bengal, India7.8 km
- BarrackporeCity in West Bengal, India900 m
- BaidyabatiCity in West Bengal, India6.1 km
- KhardahCity in West Bengal, India4.6 km
- TitagarhCity in West Bengal, India2.2 km