District in West Bengal, India

Paschim Bardhaman district

Paschim Bardhaman district is a predominantly urban mining-industrial district in West Bengal.

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Every way there

Kolkata → Paschim Bardhaman district
188 km · quickest by road, 3h 54m · ₹1,520–1,900
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Siliguri → Paschim Bardhaman district
367 km · quickest by road, 7h 52m · ₹3,330–4,160
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Bhubaneswar → Paschim Bardhaman district
396 km · quickest by road, 7h 57m · ₹3,290–4,110
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Paschim Bardhaman district, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Paschim Bardhaman district has

NScheduled flightsnearest airport CCU is 188 km away
NTrains and coachesno timetable feed known for this country
YFerriesferry terminal, 14 km; sailings estimated
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known. Nearest place with more: Jāmuria, 9 km.

23.680°, 86.990°

The headquarter of the district is Asansol. It was formed on 7 April 2017 after bifurcation of the erstwhile Bardhaman district as the 23rd district of West Bengal.

How locals move

Getting around Paschim Bardhaman district the local way

Get aroundHired cars, auto-rickshaws and cycle rickshaws are available.

From Wikivoyage: Asansol, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-05.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Wikimedia Commons (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.