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Kolkata

India

Watercolour of Kolkata, India. Along the Hooghly River, centered around the iconic cantilever Howrah Bridge and the white marble Victoria Memorial in the Maidan, with Howrah Bridge and Indo-Saracenic and British.
AI-generated artistic rendering. Painted from written research on the city's setting, architecture and materials — not from a photograph.
What guided this image
Landmarks
Howrah Bridge; Indo-Saracenic and British; Prinsep Ghat; Maidan; B.B.D. Bagh; Kolkata Trams; lush Gangetic delta flora; Job Charnock
Viewpoint
Favor the classic viewpoint looking along the Hooghly River toward Howrah Bridge with wooden boats in the foreground, or looking across the lake in the Maidan toward the white marble dome of Victoria Memorial framed by banyans, showing tree branches and stone steps in the foreground, the iconic architectural monument in the middle-ground, and the broad river or park horizon fading in the background.
Palette
Green should be the predominant color, especially in the vast park lawns of the Maidan, canopies of ancient banyans, and riverbank foliage.
Guarded against
Not Mumbai, Delhi, or Chennai
Population4,631,392Wikidata: 4,496,694
Coordinates22.56°N, 88.36°E
Elevation9 m
Area206 km²
Time zoneAsia/KolkataUTC+5:30
Solar noon11:37clock runs 0.4 h behind the sun

Through the Earth

Dig straight through the Earth from Kolkata and you surface in open ocean, nearest to San Juan Bautista, Chile — 1,757 km from the exact antipodal point.

Nearest cities in the atlas

HowrahIN5 km
KhulnaBD126 km
JamshedpurIN224 km
DhanbadIN241 km
DhakaBD246 km
GazipurBD264 km
ComillaBD306 km
RanchiIN324 km

Twinned cities

5 of 8 twinned cities are in this atlas. See the full network →

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