| Kalimpong I | |
|---|---|
| Community development block | |
  Kalimpong I Location in West Bengal, India | |
| Coordinates: 27°04′N88°28′E / 27.06°N 88.47°E Coordinates: 27°04′N88°28′E / 27.06°N 88.47°E | |
| Country |  |
| State | West Bengal |
| District | Kalimpong |
| Area | |
| • Total | 321.16 km2 (124.00 sq mi) |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 74,746 |
| • Density | 230/km2 (600/sq mi) |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Nepali, English |
| Time zone | IST (UTC+5:30) |
| Lok Sabha constituency | Darjeeling |
| Vidhan Sabha constituency | Kalimpong |
| Website | kalimpong1bdo |
Kalimpong I (community development block) is an administrative division of Kalimpong district in the Indian state of West Bengal. Kalimpong police station serves this block. Headquarters of this block is at Kalimpong. [1] [2]
Kalimpong district is a district in the state of West Bengal, India. It was formed on 14 February 2017, after splitting from the Darjeeling district as the 21st district of West Bengal. It consists of the Kalimpong Municipality and three community development blocks: Kalimpong I, Kalimpong II and Gorubathan. The district has its headquarters at Kalimpong.
India, also known as the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh largest country by area and with more than 1.3 billion people, it is the second most populous country as well as the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the northeast; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives, while its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand and Indonesia.
West Bengal is an Indian state, located in eastern region of the country on the Bay of Bengal. With over 91 million inhabitants, it is India's fourth-most populous state. It has an area of 88,752 km2 (34,267 sq mi). A part of the ethno-linguistic Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent, it borders Bangladesh in the east, and Nepal and Bhutan in the north. It also borders the Indian states of Odisha, Jharkhand, Bihar, Sikkim, and Assam. The state capital is Kolkata (Calcutta), the seventh-largest city in India, and center of the third-largest metropolitan area in the country. As for geography, West Bengal includes the Darjeeling Himalayan hill region, the Ganges delta, the Rarh region, and the coastal Sundarbans. The main ethnic group are the Bengalis, with Bengali Hindus forming the demographic majority.
