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Shyamnagar

Shyamnagar is a locality in Bhatpara of North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal.

The place

Shyamnagar is a locality in Bhatpara of North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA).

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Shyamnagar

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.

  1. 01
    Basilica of the Holy-Rosary

    The Basilica of the Holy Rosary is one of the oldest Christian churches in West Bengal, India. Situated in Bandel, Hooghly district of West Bengal, it stands as a memorial to the Portuguese settlement in Bengal.

    9.2 km · church in West Bengal, India · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Armenian Church of St. John the Baptist

    St. John the Baptist Church of Chinsura, is located in Chinsura, India.

    6.1 km · building in India · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Boro Maa Kali Temple, Naihati

    Boro Maa Kali Temple is a Hindu temple in Naihati, North 24 Parganas, West Bengal in India, dedicated to the Hindu goddess Kali, one of the 10 Mahavidyas in the Hindu tantric tradition and the supreme deity in the Kalikula worship tradition. The temple's history dates a century back to 1923, when a young man named Bhavesh Chakraborty had a dream after visiting Nabadwip and witnessing the grandeur of the idols there.

    6.5 km · Hindu temple dedicated to goddess Kali at Naihati, India · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Jubilee Bridge

    The Jubilee Bridge is a former rail bridge over the Hooghly River between Naihati and Bandel in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It provided an important connection between Garifa railway station and Hooghly Ghat railway station.

    7.9 km · bridge in India · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Hooghly Mohsin College

    Hooghly Mohsin College, established in 1836 after the Macaulay Report, is one of the oldest colleges in India. It offers undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Arts, Commerce and Sciences.

    5.2 km · Old and reputed college of West Bengal · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Chandernagore Government College

    Chandernagore Government College, also known as Dupleix College is a government college in Chandannagar, West Bengal, India. It is one of the oldest colleges in Hooghly district.

    3.7 km · college in West Bengal · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Dutch Cemetery

    Dutch Cemetery, Chinsurah is a historic Christian cemetery in Chinsurah, West Bengal, India. It contains the graves and funerary monuments of members of the Dutch community established at Chinsurah under the Dutch East India Company, together with later British and Indian Christian burials.

    6 km · Christian cemetery in Chinsurah · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Sampreeti Setu

    Sampreeti Setu or Sampreeti Bridge is a railway bridge on Hooghly River located near Hugli-Chuchura. This bridge was inaugurated on 17 April 2016.

    7.9 km · Rail bridge in West Bengal, India · Wikipedia

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Getting to Shyamnagar

Airports
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose (CCU), 21 km · Hazrat Shahjalal (DAC), 233 km
Stations
Barrackpore Air Force Station, 7.1 km · Bandel Junction railway station, 9.8 km · Kankinara railway station, 3.4 km · Seoraphuli Junction railway station, 9.7 km · Barrackpore railway station, 8.8 km
  • Bhubaneswar → Shyamnagar
    387 km · quickest by air, 4h 30m · ₹5,590–8,570
  • Siliguri → Shyamnagar
    431 km · quickest by air, 4h 50m · ₹6,200–9,500
  • Guwahati → Shyamnagar
    506 km · quickest by air, 5h 24m · ₹6,720–10,270
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Shyamnagar

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundIn the railway station itself, you will find innumerable rickshaw drivers waiting and calling you.
  • Get aroundIn the evening, leave the rickshaw and take a leisurely stroll in the promenade in Chandannagar strand.
  • Get aroundYou can book an autorickshaw to get around in Chandannagar.
  • Get aroundThere is excellent service by these autorickshaws.
  • Get aroundYou can connect yourself through autorickshaws to both Chandannagar & Mankundu Station from Strand.

From Wikivoyage: Chandannagar, 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

    136 km
  2. 02
    Sohra (Cherrapunji)IN

    8 ways of moving, 23 sources

    433 km
  3. 03
    Dawki and ShnongpdengIN

    9 ways of moving, 23 sources

    451 km
  4. 04
    TawangIN

    7 ways of moving, 24 sources

    633 km
  5. 05
    ViswemaIN

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    657 km

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

Around it

Next door to Shyamnagar

Shyamnagar is 3 km from Bhātpāra, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.