Neighbourhoods

The city is a set of paras

A para is your few streets: your sweet shop, your tea stall, your Puja, the people who notice if you are away for a week. Ask a Kolkatan where they are from and this is the unit they answer in.

Zones
5
Oldest street
Chitpur Road, pre-1690
Chitpur Road

The map

Twenty-seven quarters, five zones

Every dot sits at its real coordinates. Filter by zone to see the names, or hover a dot to read the quarter.

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North Kolkata

উত্তর কলকাতা

The old city. Courtyard houses, the oldest Pujas, and the trades that named the lanes.

Central Kolkata

মধ্য কলকাতা

The colonial core and the commercial one, a few hundred metres apart and nothing alike.

South Kolkata

দক্ষিণ কলকাতা

Where the professional middle class went, and where the city argues about itself now.

Riverside

গঙ্গার ধার

The ghats, the bridges and the docks. Everything here arrived by water first.

The east

পূর্ব কলকাতা

Tanneries, a Chinatown, and two planned cities built on drained marsh.