Local businesses in Kolkata
Listed in OpenStreetMap within 3 km of the city centre.
- Finance, insurance and legal offices: 2
- Z. Sanwarwala & Co; Life insurance corporation of india
- Banks: 78
- Deutsche Bank; Old Reserve Bank of India Building; SBM Bank; Induslnd Bank; Induslnd bank; HSBC; Citibank; Punjab & Sind Bank; DCB Bank; AU Small Finance Bank
- Hospitals: 73
- North City Hospital; SVS Marwari Hospital; ESI HOSPITAL, SEALDAH; Lady Dufferin Victoria Hospital, Kolkata; Belle Vue Clinic; Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College and Hospital; Priyamvada Birla Aravind Eye Hospital; Calcutta Pavlov Hospital; Mission Of Mercy Hospital And Research Centre; ESI Hospital Maniktala
- Car and motorcycle dealers: 10
- Eastern Honda; OSL Bajaj; Camac Car Bazar; Skoda Showroon; Bengal Hyundai; Celica; Topsel Toyota; Maruti Suzuki; maruti suzuki
- Clinics: 39
- Park Clinic, Kolkata; Ramkrishna Medical Complex Nursing Home; Sunflower Nursing Home, Kolkata; Capitol Nursing Home; Circular Nursing Home; Don View Nursing Home; Emily Nursing Home; Federation Nursing Home; H.P.Poddar Memorial Clinic And Nursing Home; Merryland Nursing Home
Kolkata facts
- District
- Kolkata district
- Population, 2011 Census
- 44,96,694 (45,80,544 in 2001)
- Area
- about 206.08 sq km, about 9 m above sea level
- People
- 899 females per 1,000 males; 87.14% literacy
- PIN codes
- 700052 (Kolkata Airport Po), 700002 (Kolkata Armed Police), 700053 (Kolkata Mint), 700073 (Kolkata University)
- Places nearby
- Asutosh Museum of Indian Art (museum, 1 km), Osmond Memorial Church (church, 1 km), Fatima Church (church, 2 km), St. James' Church (church, 2 km)
- Education
- Schools in Kolkata teach mainly in Bengali and English, with Urdu and Hindi also used in central Kolkata.
- History
- Kolkata comes from Kolikata, one of three villages that existed before the British arrived; the other two were Sutanuti and Govindapur.
- Geography
- Kolkata lies on the east bank of the Hooghly river in the lower Ganges delta, about 75 km from the Bangladesh border, at only 1.5 to 9 m above sea level.
Sources: Census of India 2011, Wikipedia, Wikidata, India Post and OpenStreetMap. Last checked 14 October 2026.